Animal rescue groups tell KEYE TV people are dumping dogs, many that are in desperate need of medical attention, near Rockdale. Volunteers took KEYE’S Katherine Stolp to the dumping site off Farm Road 908 Monday night.

More than 20 dogs have been dumped at that location. Many have severe cases of mange, sores on their bodies and very little hair. Two rescue groups helped save five dogs so far, but they say still people are continuing to abandon their dogs there.

"It broke our hearts to see them," said Ellette Vinyard with Blue Paws Rescue.  “There's no reason for this,” added Adele Noel who is a volunteer with Dogs Deserve Better.
 
Vinyard and Noel found five dogs barely alive, abandoned with more than a dozen others.

"These dogs are covered in calluses, have no hair, covered in sores,” said Vinyard. “They had to be in misery."

Two months after that first rescue, the dogs are now healthy, with tails wagging, ready for adoption.

“I can't believe a precious dog was under all that," Vinyard said while looking at before and after pictures. But these two women's work is far from over. "People just keep dumping them out there,” Vinyard told us. “It's country and it’s open."

They took us to the dump site Monday, where we found several dogs in need of medical attention.

“She was thrown out of a moving vehicle and dumped out here,” said Kay Patton while holding one of the dogs. She lives near the dump site and said she's tried to provide food and water for some of the dogs. “I cannot care for them properly,” Patton said.

When Vinyard showed Patton pictures of the rescued pups, it brought tears to her eyes. “Oh my god, she's beautiful,” Patton cried.

Once the healthy dogs find homes, the rescue groups plan to pull five more from here and start over. Until all the dogs are spayed or neutered, vaccinated and adopted by families who will love them, not dump them.

The rescue groups are working with the Austin Humane Society to find those five dogs homes.

For more information on adoption and donations, contact Ellette at bluepawsrescue@gmail.com.