Sky the Golden Retriever 여기에 한미 안녕, 내가 간다 Bye, Bye Korea, America here I come.
It started with a 14 hour flight from South Korea arriving Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta where Mark Dahlberg drove her to his home in Fort Myers.
Sky’s long journey saved her from a farm where dogs are raised for meat.
Considering where she was and what she endured, she looks great, said Dahlberg, a board member with Golden Retriever Rescue of Southwest Florida.
Sky’s who’s about 3 years old — for some glamour shots before the lens of Dennis Guyitt, medical director of GRRSWF
With a medical checkup approved, Sky is off to a foster home.
According to Dahlberg, the Golden Retriever Rescue officials hope that spreading the word about Sky will shine a light on the Korean practice of raising dogs for meat, and lead to a cultural transformation that ends it.
Sky’s journey actually begins before Christmas with another rescue organization called, YNot Save a Sam.
Volunteers for YNot, an organization that rescues Samoyed dogs, saw Sky while they were visiting a Korean farm that raised dogs for meat.
“They couldn’t get that picture out of their minds,” Dahlberg said.
When a friend in southern California who had adopted a Samoyed from the organization heard about Sky’s plight, she contacted Dahlberg, whose board of directors agreed to help rescue Sky.
Dahlberg then contacted Yvette Nielsen of the Samoyed rescue, and she connected him with Janet Brettner, a dog rescuer in Korea.
Once volunteers in Korea knew Sky had a rescue commitment, they “liberated” her from the dog farm under cover of darkness and whisked her away to a safe location until her flight arrangements could be made to the United States.
An anonymous supporter paid for Sky’s shipping cost of $450.
Animal lovers around the world have followed Sky’s story on the group’s Facebook page. Hundreds of the group’s Facebook fans tracked her tracked her plane and anxiously anticipated her arrival.
Soon after the group posted a photo on Facebook of Dahlberg holding a sign that read “Welcome Sky, GRRSWF,” the group in Korea who helped coordinate Sky’s travel arrangements and rescue joined the flood of comments on Facebook.
For more information about GRRSWF, visit grrswf.com or check out the group’s Facebook page.
