Rescue in Trofaiach

Bitch and five puppies were abandoned in the freezing cold

Visibly marked: The dog and her five puppies were simply abandoned(Bild: Claudia Huber)

A bitch and her five puppies were simply abandoned in Trofaiach on Tuesday. It is thanks to two ladies from the neighborhood that the animals were rescued.

"Who is so heartless as to do something like that?" Claudia Huber and her daughter Julia are still speechless at what they witnessed on Tuesday evening in their housing estate in Trofaiach. As Julia was walking her dog, she came across a lady from the neighborhood who was walking an emaciated, off-leash dog. "I was surprised because I had never seen her with a dog before. I asked her to put the dog on a lead. She said that the animal didn't belong to her."

"Abandoned right in front of me"
However, Huber then observed how the lady went into an apartment building and one by one brought a total of five puppies to the dog on a meadow in front of the apartment building and then disappeared into the house. "She simply abandoned the animals - right next to the street and right in front of me. I called my mother straight away. We took the dogs to safety and called the police."

The police confirmed the incident: "The investigation is ongoing," says a spokeswoman. And Leoben's official vet Gerd Kaltenegger can reassure: "The dog and her puppies are fine. Jenny Goldmann from the animal shelter in Kapfenberg found a place for them immediately," he says. And he is glad that Julia and Claudia Huber reacted so quickly.