{"id":34698,"date":"2015-01-26T17:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34698"},"modified":"2015-01-26T17:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:33:39","slug":"sky-the-golden-retriever-was-saved-from-an-korean-dog-meat-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/01\/sky-the-golden-retriever-was-saved-from-an-korean-dog-meat-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky the Golden Retriever Was
Saved From An Korean Dog Meat Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sky the Golden Retriever \uc5ec\uae30\uc5d0 \ud55c\ubbf8 \uc548\ub155, \ub0b4\uac00 \uac04\ub2e4 Bye, Bye Korea, America here I come.<\/pre>\n
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Sky the Golden Retriever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Sky’s long journey saved her from a farm where dogs are raised for meat.<\/p>\n
Considering where she was and what she endured, she looks great, said Dahlberg, a board member with Golden Retriever Rescue of Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n
Sky’s who’s about 3 years old \u2014 for some glamour shots before the lens of Dennis Guyitt, medical director of GRRSWF<\/p>\n
With a medical checkup approved, Sky is off to a foster home.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Sky’s journey actually begins before Christmas with another rescue organization called, YNot Save a Sam.<\/p>\n
Volunteers for YNot, an organization that rescues Samoyed dogs, saw Sky while they were visiting a Korean farm that raised dogs for meat.<\/p>\n
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Dahlberg holding a sign that read “Welcome Sky, GRRSWF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
“They couldn’t get that picture out of their minds,” Dahlberg said.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0help rescue Sky.<\/p>\n
Dahlberg then contacted Yvette Nielsen of the Samoyed rescue, and she connected him with Janet Brettner, a dog rescuer in Korea.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
An anonymous supporter paid for Sky’s shipping cost of $450.<\/p>\n
Animal lovers around the world have followed Sky’s story on the group’s\u00a0Facebook page.<\/a>\u00a0Hundreds of the group’s Facebook fans tracked her tracked her plane and anxiously anticipated her arrival.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
For more information about GRRSWF, visit\u00a0grrswf.com<\/a>\u00a0or check out the group’s Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n