There is huge need for governments and crisis centers around the world to show compassion over family members of abused women and children. It is a psychologically known fact that furry family members, which are intuitively intelligent and sensitive, aid in healing and rehabilitation of traumatized members of our societies. (thesantosrepublic.com)
Lady MJ Santos, Chief Visionary Founder & Owner’s Message to Humanity: There are many unreported and under-reported cases of abused women and children who get separated by pet-unfriendly crisis centers around the world. This is a story about a women’s city shelter who added pet facilities because of the heroism of an intelligent, compassionate and courageous Great Dane and the refusal of a deeply grateful abused woman from being separated from her furry loved one. The dog saved the woman from the beating of her boyfriend, and absorbed much of his uncontrollable rage from both ends of the hammer, surviving many injuries, including broken hip, broken ribs, and other broken bones. It is a true story to remind our societies to grow up soon and treat these furry family members with respect, love, loyalty and honor, the same way they give us, humans. No member of a loving family should be ever left behind. Please share this article to your friends and loved ones.
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by Suzana Megles
May 13, 2013 (TSR) – I don’t cry as easily as my older sister Anna, but then we are both soft-hearted. I think to myself, I wish more people were like us.
I just saw a despicable ad on the Internet from some gun proponents. It was either selling or touting a poster of a scantily clad woman with the message, “Shoot your ex-girlfriend and she will bleed.”
Yes, there are all kinds of people in this world. Sadly, the real-life incident I’m about to relate brought both happy and sad tears to my eyes. It reveals both the good and bad in human nature, and, not surprisingly, the beauty and good in dog nature.
Based on a post from today’s Examiner, the story concerns an abusive relationship in which the woman’s Great Dane becomes her hero. Sadly, it seems the boyfriend had a violent streak, and, for whatever reason, one day he began beating his girlfriend with both ends of a hammer. Whether they owned the Great Dane together I don’t know, but the dog reacted courageously by jumping into the fray and, by laying himself across the woman, absorbing most of the blows.
If anybody doesn’t feel that animals are intelligent and can be compassionate and courageous, this story should enlighten them. Finally, the man threw both the woman and the dog out of the second-story window. What a gem.
There is huge need for governments and crisis centers around the world to show compassion over family members of abused women and children. It is a psychologically known fact that furry family members, which are intuitively intelligent and sensitive, aid in healing and rehabilitation of traumatized members of our societies. (thesantosrepublic.com)
The dog’s injuries were severe, and included a broken hip, broken ribs, and other broken bones.
The woman was taken to a women’s shelter in Kansas City. There, the center’s chief executive officer, Susan Miller, while acknowledging that the Great Dane had saved the woman’s life, declared that the shelter did not accept pets.
The beautiful human victim, however, would not abandon her heroic animal friend, who had shown he was much more then just a “pet.” If the shelter would not take him in, she obviously had to look elsewhere. But she knew in her heart that this beautiful Great Dane would never again live under the same roof as their abuser.
In the end, the shelter relented, making an exception for the heroic dog, because it realized the woman’s life would be in danger if she should leave the security of the shelter.
Abused Women Often Will Not Leave their Pets
The stats are not encouraging in cases where a pet resides in an abusive situation. According to Susan Miller, “Forty percent of the women will not leave their pets, so they live in their cars or they stay [with the abuser]. They risk their own life or the life of their children.”
One woman would not desert her pet and lived with him in her car for four months while waiting to find a pet-friendly shelter.
Well, the Great Dane in the story I’ve related not only saved his owner, but served as a much-needed catalyst in getting the Rose Brook Shelter to add a pet-friendly wing for abused women with pets they need to bring with them.
Another motivation was the realization that children are happier when they can keep pets they’ve grown to love.
So Rose Brook added seven kennels and a pet-friendly play area. In doing so, it became the first shelter in the area to accept pets. I hope it won’t be the last.
Sadly, I doubt that other states have displayed a similar compassion in providing the facilities needed at shelters to enable women and their children to bring their pets with them. I’m almost certain Ohio does not provide such facilities.
Doesn’t a Mother Cat need a Shelter too?
Years ago, my niece Vicky worked in a women’s shelter, and asked me if she could bring a mother cat and her two kittens to my house. She said the shelter told her to take them to an animal shelter. I could not help thinking, Where was their compassion?
Doesn’t a homeless mother cat need shelter too?
Vicki knew full well what would happen to the mother cat and her kittens in a shelter. In the 1990s, many of the shelter dogs and
cats would be snapped up by research hospitals under the terrible and unjust Pound Seizure law. Thankfully, most states have dropped this archaic and cruel law. The thought of the Cleveland Clinic’s animal research floor. which a Cleveland inspector told me he had seen, never allowed me to feel good about the clinic.
Slowly but surely, the use of animals for medical research is proving to be the bust it was always destined to be. I recently read that the mouse protocol has led to serious defects in research results, because the bodily systems of mice are significantly different from our own. Since observations and deductions based on mice research have proved unreliable for meeting human medical needs, millions of mice have been sacrificed on the high altar of animal research for nothing.
Yes, many people, including knowledgeable doctors, have been telling the Institute of Health about the uselessness of animal protocols for human medical research, but neither the Institute of Health nor Congress will listen. Our only hope at the moment seems to be that animals will not be used as cruelly as they have been for so many years by the biomedical community.
I’ll conclude with a final note about the mother cat and her kittens. Yes, I told Vicki to bring them over. Heather, Martin, and Friskie all joined my growing animal rescue family. Sadly, they are all gone now, including my niece Vicky, but they will never be forgotten. This will surely bring more tears to my sister’s eyes, because Vicky was her daughter.
