Faith's story | Boxer Used for Breeding then Abandoned Finds Love in the End
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This is our dear Faith’s
This is our dear Faith’s story. I’ve put off posting it for a little while now. It was a bit too raw to watch back and even to be able to read through your heartfelt comments. The loss of Faith really saddened us deeply. I didn’t want to go on without her having her own story told in one place though. Her story is a very important story for people to hear.
Faith was a 4 year old pure bred Boxer used for breeding by a registered breeder. She lived her short life in a cage and was fed by machines with no human contact. Once she was of no use to the breeder she was surrendered into rescue. Whilst this may sound shocking, this is a very common scenario. There are many ethical breeders yes, but there are just as many unethical breeders out there. It is up to us as the public, to do our research thoroughly to determine who are which, if you are going to buy through a breeder. And of course adopting a rescue is a very rewarding and important path to choose. Faith was a rescue dog in the end, there are many dogs surrendered by breeders waiting to be adopted and be loved finally.
Back to Faith’s story … Faith came to the farm with her daughter Hope. Both girls were very shut down and traumatised. So much so, they fell like pancakes on the ground in the company of humans.
We discovered that they let their fears subside with the company of other dogs and were able to observe trust in humans for the first time through the dogs and their positive interactions with us.
We never forced any interactions and allowed them whatever time they needed.
Unfortunately, it was discovered that Faith had a very aggressive terminal cancer. We were devastated for her. The news came just weeks before she was to be adopted.
It just didn’t seem at all fair. So we adopted Faith into our own family. We wanted for her to feel and be adopted into a loving home, even if in her last weeks. And she did finally feel that.
Since Faith’s passing, we have also adopted her daughter Hope. Hope continues to grow in love. Slowly but surely.
We don’t want Faith’s short life to go by without stopping to think a little more about the bigger picture. If sharing Faith’s story helps inspire a few more people to research a little more, ask a few more questions or even adopt … then telling her sad story will be very worthwhile.
To all of those that followed Faith’s story from the beginning and loved her too, thank you.
Faith was a 4 year old pure bred Boxer used for breeding by a registered breeder. She lived her short life in a cage and was fed by machines with no human contact. Once she was of no use to the breeder she was surrendered into rescue. Whilst this may sound shocking, this is a very common scenario. There are many ethical breeders yes, but there are just as many unethical breeders out there. It is up to us as the public, to do our research thoroughly to determine who are which, if you are going to buy through a breeder. And of course adopting a rescue is a very rewarding and important path to choose. Faith was a rescue dog in the end, there are many dogs surrendered by breeders waiting to be adopted and be loved finally.
Back to Faith’s story … Faith came to the farm with her daughter Hope. Both girls were very shut down and traumatised. So much so, they fell like pancakes on the ground in the company of humans.
We discovered that they let their fears subside with the company of other dogs and were able to observe trust in humans for the first time through the dogs and their positive interactions with us.
We never forced any interactions and allowed them whatever time they needed.
Unfortunately, it was discovered that Faith had a very aggressive terminal cancer. We were devastated for her. The news came just weeks before she was to be adopted.
It just didn’t seem at all fair. So we adopted Faith into our own family. We wanted for her to feel and be adopted into a loving home, even if in her last weeks. And she did finally feel that.
Since Faith’s passing, we have also adopted her daughter Hope. Hope continues to grow in love. Slowly but surely.
We don’t want Faith’s short life to go by without stopping to think a little more about the bigger picture. If sharing Faith’s story helps inspire a few more people to research a little more, ask a few more questions or even adopt … then telling her sad story will be very worthwhile.
To all of those that followed Faith’s story from the beginning and loved her too, thank you.
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