Puppies abandoned in box along the road in Shuswap
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The abandoned pugs are expected to be up for adoption in a couple of weeks time.
Two puppies, both Pug crosses, are adjusting to their temporary home in West Kelowna, B.C., after being abandoned in a box on the side of the road in the Shuswap.
“They were very, very thirsty. They were dehydrated. They were covered in fleas,” said Romany Runnalls, president of the Okanagan Humane Society (OHS).
The seven-week old puppies, currently in the care of OHS, were found on a rural road in Tappen, just outside of Salmon Arm early Tuesday morning.
They were discovered near a community mailbox by Wayne Smith, who lives in the area.
“I see this box there and think what the heck is that and I drove in and there they were,” Smith told Global News. “I was almost in tears. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?'”
The pair, however, weren’t the only pups found abandoned in the area that day.
According to Smith, four more puppies, believed to be from the same litter, were also left in a box up the road.
Those four found another area resident later the same day and on Friday, Smith stunned yet again after finding a seventh Pug cross in the area.
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