Pups found on doorstep adoptable this week

Humane Society officials said three puppies found abandoned and left on a woman’s doorstep will be available for adoption Tuesday.

There is a mandatory 72-hour hold on animals going up for adoption there. They’ll be ready after 1 p.m.

Officials said they’ve had lots of calls for the puppies, who were found in a box at Marilyn Doogs’ home on Merritt Road.

“I heard them barking and I looked out, and there were three little dogs running around in the snow,” she said.

Doogs discovered the dogs at 1:30 a.m. March 8 when she heard them making noise. The abandoned puppies were just inside her fence line. Knowing the temperature was below freezing, the act heated Doogs temper.

“It just gets me how people can be so inhumane and can treat pups like that in the middle of the night, in the freezing weather,” she said.

Humane Society of Clark County Executive Director James Straley said his office responds to many complaints regarding abandoned pets.

“Seeing them left on a doorstep, we don’t get that a whole lot. But in a back alley somewhere, it happens more than we’d like to think about,” he said.

Doogs brought the puppies up on her porch, and gave them food and water. While she is a dog lover, she said the puppies are too much for her to handle and hopes the humane society can find someone willing to take them in.

“I was thinking about keeping them but I’m not able to,” she said. “I hope they get a good home.”

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