Tania Cappelluti discovered once more earlier this month when she returned to her native Berlin, Germany, that the life of an animal rescuer is never easy.
Cappelluti has spent the past few years residing in Costa Rica. To launch a yoga retreat, she relocated there. Then, after observing the numerous abandoned dogs and cats roaming the streets in distress, she collaborated with other locals to launch Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue Costa Rica (CAARCR).
Since then, she has helped several animals in need of loving homes in finding them. Helping animals continued even after she moved to Berlin earlier this month, despite being thousands of miles away.
“This is so unbelievable,” she wrote on Facebook on August 16, posting a photo of an obviously pregnant dog leaning against the facade of a blue house. “I really don’t understand how people can do this to their dog.”
Cappelluti had received a message from the family’s neighbor in Costa Rica about this dog, along with photos and the news that this dog had been left behind when her family moved away.
“They moved away and left their pregnant dog behind,” she wrote. “No food or water. On her own, with a big belly. The poor girl is sitting now day and night in front of the door waiting for her people to come back home.”
Then Cappelluti asked — yet again — the essential question for people who run animal rescues: “Who can help?”
Due to the time difference, Cappelluti had to get up in the middle of the night to communicate with her colleagues at CAARCR and the network of foster parents the rescue organization has established over the past few years. Cappelluti had persuaded the neighbor to take the dog in while she decided what to do.
And time was of the essence. The dog was so round that she might have given birth at any time.
Thankfully, help came just in time for the dog, whom rescuers named Marie.
Wynn Mackey, an American retiree who lives in Costa Rica and has several dogs of his own, gladly agreed to take Marie into his home.
Mercedes Mora, a local Costa Rican seamstress and one of the founders of CAARCR, carried the heavily pregnant dog over to Mackey’s house.
“He has fostered for us before,” Cappelluti told The Dodo. “He is a wonderful foster dad.”
Still, Marie felt safe and loved by her foster carer, and managed to spend several days in a state of relaxation.
“She doesn’t leave Wynn’s side!” Cappelluti said.
Marie looked like a sack of frogs, according to Mackey, since the puppies were so active within her womb.
Soon, Cappelluti said, “a lot of puppies would be born.” Additionally, she checked her texts when she woke up in the middle of Monday night and had thoughts of Marie.
She said, “I opened Facebook, and there she smiles at me with seven pups!”
Not on the unique bed that Mackey had created for her, Marie had given birth.
She gave birth in Mackey’s bed, where she was sleeping.
Dog in foster care in Costa Rica after being left at the owner’s
“All is well! Even to go to the bathroom, Marie is reluctant to leave the infants “explained Cappelluti. But I have no doubt that she will soon unwind and even like little getaways.
After giving birth, an abandoned dog was housed in Costa Rica by a foster carer.
The entire last-minute, international effort to save Marie was more than worthwhile because of Marie’s joy and relief. The only things Marie and her babies need right now are food and rest until they are all ready to find their everlasting homes.
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