PUYALLUP, Wash. — Nearly a dozen dogs rescued from a filthy, crowded Belfair home are up for adoption. The formers owners, a couple in their 60s, got so sick they were unable to care for the dogs.
Sunny Sky's Animal Rescue in Puyallup got some of the dogs, and workers there say they're now ready to go to forever homes.
On the day of the rescue, Mason County deputies cleaned up the house and fed some 20 dogs that were well enough to stay behind. The others were farmed out to shelters in Kitsap and Thurston counties.
Kennel tech Ananda Boylan looked at one of two cockatoos who were also rescued.
"His nails and feet are completely bent sideways," she said.
What happened to the animals, she added, was preventable.
"This could have been avoided by simple grooming," said Boylan. "They weren't cared for. And now they're damaged beyond repair."
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