End animal suffering in KCMO urban core

In honor of Pit Bull Awareness month, this is a story about.... well, a Pit Bull. 

Chain of Hope monitors hundreds of households through outreach.  But there is rarely a day on outreach that a new one isn't identified.  Volunteers were out setting up a run for a dog we had been monitoring.  Cuddles lived with a woman in hospice care, who did the best she could for her beloved dog.  As with so many families, COH was there routinely to help.  On this one particular day, volunteers were out setting up a donated run for Cuddles for her yard had no fence. They heard a dog barking and could see in the way back of the neighbors yard a chained dog lying on the ground...no shelter...no food....no water, and she looked pretty thin.  When she barked, someone from inside the house would scream at her to shut up. Volunteers called in Kate to weigh in on the situation.  After nearly 20 years in outreach, you get a sixth sence about these things, and it was telling Kate it was not safe to approach.  But something had to be done. 

So as to not jeopardize Cuddles's support, a call was placed to Animal Control, followed by another to make sure there was a response.  Kate is persistent that way.   The dog had been impounded and taken into shelter.  From a distance she looked thin, but what a shock to see how emaciated she really was, her spirit broken.  They told her they would be back, and they were, on day 5 when she was eligible for release, praying she would not break with kennel cough due to her weakened state.  Judy had a mocha cappuccino with her and this gal was not too weak to sniff that out, thus, they named her Mocha.  Today Mocha is strong, thriving, and has a classic pitty smile a half a mile wide!

And that's how we do it.  Day by day, one by one, changing a life....and changing ours by being a part of it.  And you are too, whether it's one dollar, ten or a thousand, your support makes it happen and we thank you....

Mocha thanks you!