On Thursday evening we took in 5 puppies that needed to come out of a terrible situation urgently. There were 10 puppies originally but the owners left them outside so subsequently 5 had already died. They were supposedly 9 weeks old, but guess what, they are only 3 to 4. They arrived emaciated, flea ridden and had severe mange. They had scabs all over their bodies and were near to death. I really didn't think they would make it through the night. I bottle fed them every 2 hours and wormed on vets advice as they were vomiting up worms constantly.

On Friday morning Bug, who I had named myself, sadly died in my arms. The 4 we have left have huge distended bellies but are eating and drinking. We are all keeping our fingers crossed and praying a lot.

I have named them Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moe.

The sad and awful thing is that worming and treating mum for mange, which is so simple and easy to do, would have saved Bug and given the 4 others a better chance of survival it is just so sickening to see.

Time and time again we are being faced with such extreme neglect and suffering and for £20 to £30 to treat these animals at the outset they wouldn't need to suffer or die.

We do need your support and money if we are going to survive the recession and enable us to carry on helping dogs like these, so please whatever you can afford to donate please donate now.

THANK YOU.

We are delighted to let you know that Springley and her puppies are doing well, as you will no doubt be able to see from her photographs she is a wonderful mum.

We will of course keep you updated on their progress as they start to grow and develop their own personalities and in due course, when they are ready, will place individual profiles on the dogs to adopt page for them.

We have recently taken in a cruelty case and he is presently under EGLR's care, but due to the owners being under investigation for undue suffering under the animal welfare act, we are unfortunately unable to publicise any pictures or other details of this case to ensure we are not at risk of prejudicing the case.

If you could see the photos of this poor dog it would break your heart and we hope that those responsible will receive the full punishment available under the law.

We are devastated that beautiful Tinger has come back to us. This girl got into all our hearts at EGLR and has been through so much in her short life. We really thought she had found the right forever home but sadly this was not the case and she has come back very stressed, upset, worried and frightened.

For those of you that don't remember Tinger's story she came in with a head injury so severe that she had to have her eye removed, she struggled with the pain and the loss of her eye and didn't cope well at the vets at all.

To read her full profile have a look on our dogs to adopt page and if you think you could give her the forever home she deserves do get in touch.