Oh, Mary, what horrible people. But what a wonderful person your daughter is to take notice and get those dogs.

I lived in a rural area of SC one time, and one of our neighbors moved away in the middle of the night and we didn't know it for days. He had two adult cats and two dogs. He took one dog with him, and we realized that the other pets must still be at the house. I found the mama cat and one kitten (barely clinging to life) and the little dead carcasses of two other kittens out on the back porch of the house. Found a home for the mama cat and the baby with a friend of my mother in law. The second cat, Thumper, was adopted by another neighbor. The dog, an English Setter, who was left, was taken by another neighbor, who found a home for him, only to have him escape and get killed by a car trying to make it back home.

People never cease to amaze me. I can't imagine, even with the worst possible things happening in my life, that I could ever just drive away and leave my animals to fend for themselves. Makes me so very angry and sad. Good thing that there are good folks out there to help them, like you and your daughter, and my neighbors, who tried so hard to help.