Here are some pictures from the rescue site, of Mini on her own the day before the reunion and of the reunion and the ride home.
If you’re just catching this post now and you haven’t read any of their story, please start here at “Something About Mini.”
This is Mini on Thursday Morning, January 2, safe and sound in Maryland, but definitely needing some nursing pups. (I said I wasn’t going to say anything in this post, but I have to say this. Call me a weirdo, but Mini looks distracted here. If you compare her to the later images after her pups’ rescue, she just seems … content later.)
Ahhh! Charlie and Tip.
Charlie and Tip preparing for the ride home in a nice warm jacket. They look so tired and dare I anthropomorphize again and suggest: relieved??
All Dogs In The Caaaaar! Annnnd, they’re out. I think that’s Charlie’s butt on the far right, I can see some of his brown wool.
Um. Yeah. This is where they were lived and from where they were rescued. Here’s me… I’m thinking while I’m imagining this story, and before seeing these images, “trailer” “ramshackle” “dilapidated” and “fixer-upper.” It never occurred to me that upon the countless properties I’ve driven past in my lifetime which resemble this image, that anything, six anythings in fact, could be living in them. This whole thing brings a new perspective to me.
Roof, anyone?
Believe it or not, this is a different view. All this cozy homesteading can be yours for the low, low price of … your soul.
Over here, we have a lovely al fresco dining nook, complete with convenient trash depository area. When I saw these pictures, all I thought was “crack den” and feared “loose needles…”
Amy … Michele … holy canoli. You are heroes!
Amy captioned this one, “The beginning of the tunnel under the foundation.” I think this is where she started digging. With her bare hands. At night. In 28˚ and falling temps.
this is where they were found. this is the hole Amy dug.
Amy is a photographer. These next pics are so lovely. This is the ease I was suggesting earlier in Mini’s disposition.
Amy and Michele — I remain speechless and humbled by your commitment. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
Several readers have asked me if the dogs have all been placed. Yes. All the dogs have been placed. Everyone’s heart just grew that much bigger…
Thank you.
ps — all of these images are copyright of and appear courtesy of Amy Santiago, (c) 2014.
Grass Oil by Molly Field 
Thanks for sharing! We need to hear more heroic stories like this in our world today. What a comfort knowing there is still a shred of humanity, kindness and willingness to help.
Is Mindi now living with Amy?
Mini, the mother dog? (There is no Mindi, there was Mandi, the fake name for a human) is living with a friend of Michele’s (the fake Mandi). She’s a sweetie, isn’t she? I love her ears.
Yes, the world needs to be more full of stories like these. Thanks, Melissa.
Great story! I love these photos too.
they are some lucky, lucky dogs!
Yeah. It’s remarkable.