#dugongdogs

[thematarese]

I can't understand why some people, especially those with college degrees, don't throw their trash properly. Having no trash bin around is no excuse. Utang na loob. . . . @Regranned from @natgeo - Photo by @jenniferhayesig A heart breaking find. We arrived at a remote small island in Coron Busuanga Philippines to dive and to scout for plastic debris. Two dogs appeared on the beach and began to swim to our boat. The heavy surf turned them back. I could see they were thin. I abandoned my dive and swam ashore with rice. The dogs had been left behind and and were extremely emaciated and weak. They were slowly starving to death on an island with no food resources. I fed them and swam back to our boat and asked our crew to kayak in water and more rice. The dogs were gentle, friendly and in good spirits despite their desperate situation. Ironically I found the debris I was looking for on shore when I found the dogs. They were pawing through the debris seeking anything to eat. We are working with locals to keep them fed by boat until we can get them off the island. We are in the process of determining the best rescue for them, either a safe place in the Philippines or we adopt them and take them back to New York. We are calling these two, a male and female, the "dugong dogs" because we were working with dugongs in the area. Stay tuned for the rest of their story. // with @natgeo in Philippines// #ocean #abandoned #rescuedog #dugongdog #followmystory for a video of the #dugongdogs follow @jenniferhayesig - #regrann