FRUITPORT CHARTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Noah Project, a nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter near Muskegon, is asking for donations after finding six puppies in its yard.
Shelter employees reviewed surveillance video from Tuesday night and found that someone lifted up and dropped the puppies over their six-foot fence and into their side yard.
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"Usually they bring them inside and just say they can't keep them and we take them. Never left in the side yard in the middle of, you know, a cold evening like that before," Mashele Arndt, Noah Project's executive director, said.
The shelter says there was a low of 27 degrees that night, along with sleet and rain. The puppies were in the cold all night before employees arrived the next morning and found them.
"We came in Wednesday morning at 7:45 to find six puppies in the side yard that had been dropped off at 10:45 the night prior in the side yard," Arndt added. "They were out there a long time and it was windy and cold and raining and snowing at the same time. You don't have any kind of shot. There's no cover so it was a long night."
The shelter believes the puppies are between nine and ten weeks old.
Abandoning animals without provisions or adequate care is illegal according to Michigan law.
"They should have just called us and we would have gladly taken them in. Didn't need to just leave them that way," Arndt said.
Two of the pups are being watched closely at an employee’s home. Two of the puppies have injured legs and are limping, which employees believe is due to them hitting the ground after being dropped over the fence.
"Two of them are limping," Arndt explained. "So we are getting them medical attention from our vets."
Despite what happened to the puppies, the shelter says all of them are playful and loving.
Now, Noah Project is asking for donations to help pay for vet bills.
"After we get them vetted, make sure they're healthy and they're up to date and everything and get them spayed and neutered," Arndt said as Noah Project's focus remains on the puppies and finding them their forever homes.
Additionally, the shelter needs Purina Pro Plan Puppy Lamb and Rice to feed the hungry pups.
Click here if you are willing and able to donate.
