SSNAAPE helped us with a terrified dog

A terrified, unapproachable Australian Shepherd was dumped and left to starve in my backcountry neighborhood last summer.

After one month, she was clearly losing weight, and was reduced literally to skin-and-bones after a 100 degree week. During that heat, she had puppies. She was moving the puppies when she just disappeared, leaving the puppies abandoned. Our hearts were torn when neighbors found two 7-week-old puppies four days later under their house, alive but starving. I took them in, but was broken-hearted about the Aussie.

Amazingly, the Aussie returned, staying at the edge of my proper...