01/04/2025
Welcome to another edition of Tubing Tuesday. This time, we introduce Marty McFly.
Marty McFly is the sweetest little reason that a pair of foster moms haven’t slept in three weeks. He is a tiny Boston Terrier/French Bulldog mix who exists because a breeder was greedy and wanted to use living beings to make money.
His litter was bred, unethically might we add, to come out with merle coats. When you see those pretty dogs with muddled or marbled patches of color on their coats, that coloring pattern is called “merle”. It’s lovely and desirable and people will pay a lot of money for it, but it’s a gene combination that causes a variety of birth defects in puppies. Marty is one of five babies in his litter - one of them came out with a merle coat, two of them are still alive.
Every day, every four hours, his foster moms have to place a tube down his throat and into his stomach and push formula from a syringe down the tube. He has a cleft lip and a cleft palate (both defects caused by his breeding), which means he can’t form a suction with his mouth and it’s not safe for him to eat normally. He’ll need surgery at six months if he makes it that far. They stimulate his little bottom to p**p and keep him warm with heating pads. Without his mom or littermates around, they have to use a little stuffed toy with a heartbeat to comfort him.
He fights for his little life every day and searches around constantly for his mama and siblings. His entire foster family loves him desperately and we’re committed to giving him the best chance at life but his circumstances are unnatural. It shouldn’t have to be this hard. We will all keep fighting for him, and other puppies like him, and keep begging folks not to buy from unethical breeders who clearly don't care about the lives they’re bringing into the world. We know Marty can beat the odds, we just wish he didn’t have to.
If you have any to spare, Marty McFly could use it! Monetary donations can also be made via PayPal or Venmo to
Donate supplies via Chewy: bit.ly/NPRChewyWL
Donate supplies via Amazon: tinyurl.com/NPRPuppyWishlist
*no applications or inquiries will be accepted for Marty at this time*
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