ARC deployed for the emergency rescue of 51 dogs left as collateral damage when a rescue shut down amid a nasty divorce.
ARC’s Field Team deployed for an emergency rescue in Ashdown, Arkansas. Responding to an urgent situation as a failed rescue closed its doors, the team set out to save 51 dogs left in crisis. The nonprofit rescue shut down amid an acrimonious divorce involving its founders. By court order, the dogs were been surrendered—not because of anything these dogs did wrong. Just because they became collateral damage in a human conflict.
This was Operation Broken Ties, and it was ARC’s fourth large-scale rescue in the space of just 6.5 weeks.
Long before the nasty divorce and dissolution of the rescue, many of the dogs waited in limbo, stuck for years with no home to be found. Several were underweight. The facilities were dusty, bare, and austere, with little enrichment or comfort for the dogs that lived here. For many of these dogs, this rescue was more of a prison. These dogs committed no crime, but some were serving a life sentence in these conditions.
This is Yoshi, the longest-stay resident here. He arrived at this rescue in January of 2015:
He and many others have been here for years, waiting for a home that never came. That’s years of uncertainty, years of waiting, years without the stability every dog should have.
The dogs of Operation Broken Ties urgently need:
• Emergency veterinary exams and treatment
• Safe housing and daily care
• Once ready, transport to trusted rescue and shelter partners
• Time, patience, and resources to decompress after years in limbo
Animal Rescue Corps was founded to help dogs like Yoshi in situations like this one.
But ARC can’t do this work alone. So, if you are in a position to help today with a donation to support ARC’s crucial work, please do.
And, if you are in a position to volunteer, please sign up today. Opportunities are always available in ARC’s Rescue Center outside Nashville, TN, as well as sometimes nationally and beyond. We sometimes offer travel stipends.
