After falling in love with two stray dogs they found in Mauritius, a newly-engaged couple from the UK adopted them.
When 27-year-old Ben Jenkins and 29-year-old Charlotte Long went to Mauritius, they saw a lot of stray dogs running around. At the Long Beach Mauritius resort, they became besotted with two they later christened Mauri and Moo, reported MailOnline.
Adopting From Mauritius
After returning back to their home in the town of Waterlooville engaged to be married, Jenkins and Long found it difficult to be apart from the two canines and got in touch with 4 Paws Rescue and Relocation to explore the possibility of bringing them over to the UK.
They learned that, due to the problem the island has with stray animals, they’re sometimes drugged and drowned, and set up a GoFundMe page to raise the money required to bring them over from Mauritius.
It would cost £3,500 to sterilize, vaccinate and house the pooches before flying them over, but they were able to meet their goal within a remarkable 24 hours. Currently, Mauri and Mo remain in Mauritius, but they’ll arrive at their forever home soon.
“We Just Fell in Love”
“We first met the dogs when we adventured to the beach,” said Jenkins. “The male we met first and he was a timid but friendly dog who seemed very young.
“And then the female we met again on the beach the next day … we just fell in love with her.
‘They stole our hearts as they were so, so underweight yet would take food ever so gently. It was this that made us assume that the dogs were in fact the hotels as they would always be around the beach of the hotel.”
