my mother in law lived in spain and got involved in spanish rescue for dogs after seeing how shit it was over there. She found a box of new born puppies in a communal bin area waiting for the bin men to chuck the box of live puppies in the bin lorry, all the while their starving etc in the box . My dog vinny was hardly fed as a puppy and developed ricketts , he ended up breaking a leg so the owner left him on the doorstep of what is effectively known as a "killing station" for dogs . Luckily for him my mother in laws friend found him there and saved his life by taking him on and paying for hi