Leanne Magincalda has a perplexing situation.
Three Black Mouth Curs pups showed up on a construction site near her home at Airport Way and Woodward Avenue more than a month ago.
She’s been feeding and providing water for them daily at a “home” they’ve created under construction equipment.
Magincalda has checked with rescues and humane societies but can’t find one within a 100 miles able to take them in.
She’s leery of calling the Manteca Animal Shelter out of fear if they aren’t able to adopt them out and no rescue is able to take them, that they could face being euthanized.
She is hoping to find a veterinarian’s office that will come out to their “home” and scan them for a chip to hopefully find out who they belong to.
That said, the city early this year installed a microchip scanner near the front entrance of the animal shelter at Wetmore Street and Main Street.
It allows someone that might pick up a stray dog or cat to scan it in a bid to return it to their owner.
It allows for a quicker resolution of helping lost pets find their way home faster given it can be accessed 24/7 whenever the animal services office is not staffed.
The city is continuing to meet standards to be recognized nationally as a no-kill shelter.
That means 90 percent of the animals that end up at the animal shelter have a “live outcome.” It includes pets being reunited with their owners, pets being adopted, or pets being transferred to rescue organizations.
But as Magincalda points out, that doesn’t mean they won’t end up being euthanized if they aren’t placed.
She notes there are a number of folks who live nearby who come and play with the puppies, bringing them toys, treats and some food. All of them are unable to consider taking in another pet because most already have two,.
Yet, she notes they come every day to spend time with the family of three pups.
Everyone, Magincalda said, believes they were abandoned simply because they have expensive collars, but no tags what so ever.
In an email, she noted if a black SUV pulls up the dogs go running to it, looking for their “parents.” It doesn’t happen with any other car, but black SUVs. And, when the occupant gets out of the car, the three dogs turn away because it isn’t their family.
She adds the three dogs are super friendly, and that she is beginning to start some basic training, like walking on a leash, or sit/stay.
Magincalda added there has been an “amazing response on Facebook, Nextdoor and even Instagram” as people are trying to find homes for the pups
“One other detail that sets these dogs apart,” she noted in an email. “ They are what is called a ‘Black Mouth Cur’ which is used almost exclusively for hunting in the Southern U.S. Coastal states. Of course, a DNA test would be required to be 100% sure. But every professional I have shown the pictures to does agree that they are of that breed.”
Magincalda can be contacted at clubduck@comcast.net.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
