Guest Writer
The Animal Hope & Wellness Foundation
The PetStaurant
South Korean Slaughterhouse Dog:
Rescued, Ready for Adoption Feb. 7, 2016;
Rudi #18 - One of the Lucky 7
My name is Rudi,
I am a
slaughterhouse dog from Gimcheon South Korea. I am a full breed pug, and when
people look at me I am certain they say - how could a dog like me end up in
slaughter. Where I am from, dogs are stolen everyday from families. Taken from
the comfort of their lives, and pulled into a world of torture and misery.
Marc watched as they
hung me by a noose. As they beat me with metal sticks where I screamed out in a
tongue that could not ask for mercy. Before they were about to cut off my feet,
Marc negotiated my release, as well as the release of twenty four other dogs.
From his last
rescue mission, he liberated 35 lives, with only seven of us surviving. Dogs
like me, we die a death that most people in America could never even believe
possible. The lives he saves, each of us had been tortured in an unimaginable
way. Some beat with pipes. Some electrocuted. Some dismembered without legs.
While I am a
survivor, my spirit has been cut open and broken. I have been in isolation here
in South Korea at the vet for a few weeks now, and am being treated for skin
lacerations and trauma to my pelvis and spine. I am expected to make a full
recovery, however, I am deathly afraid of people. Every time the nurse attempts
to put a leash on to walk me, I seizure from anxiety.
It is going to take
patience and time, and parents whom really understand me - if I ever hope to
live a partially normal life again.
Marc claims it is a
miracle that I am alive. And that if I try, that life will balance itself out
for me. That for every day I lived in darkness, that light will rain itself
down from that great expanse above me. Marc claims there is always an end to
suffering. And hope, for those that leave their hearts open to possibility.
On February 7th, 2016, I
land at Los Angeles International where I will be up for adoption at the Animal
Hope and Wellness Foundation.
Mom and dad - come
to find me. Come and pull the darkness from the skin that surrounds me. Be my
liberty, be the peace that I cannot find in darkness. Be the dream I dreamt of
every night as I watched blood peel itself of off me.
Be exactly what and
who I need to breathe. Because I am suffocating, still trapped in a darkness
that I cannot push from my body. ###MarcChing
After rescuing 35 South Korean slaughterhouse dogs---only 7 survived---even with a sagging heart, Marc Ching continues his mission. The images of hangings, being battered with pipes, electrocutions and being dismembered after they were already pawless---Marc Ching swims through the abyss of suffering he witnessed first hand, to cling to a Divine grace that the Lucky 7 who possessed the sliver of hope that they too would be loved one day---survived. And Rudi is one of them....
To be free from torture, free from hatred, free from the abuse, free from watching the blood of your brothers and sisters drip off your body knowing you'll be next, free from the fear, free from the darkness, free to just be---a Dog. Is now the chance the Lucky 7 have...and it all begins with you...won't you let them rest their weary head on your lap. And with one swoop of your caress---all their painful memories vanish---and they'll peacefully sigh--thank you, I am now l o v e d. ---R. B. STUART
