Ellis, Yuri, and Evie are 4-week-old English Bulldog pups in Providence, RI, who need $2,000 for eye surgery.

Rhode Home Rescue says what happened to these three English Bulldog puppies is an atrocity. Ellis, Yuri, and Evie, just weeks old, are the victims of breeding gone bad. "A guy walked into a vet's office and wanted them euthanized," Nadine with Rhode Home Rescue tells Waggle. "He tried to breed these puppies, and something went wrong. They were unable to be sold for profit, so he dumped them."

Someone at the vet's office called the rescue, which immediately agreed to save the pups and pay for their care. "I told them we'll take them, do not put them down," Nadine says. "I couldn't; I couldn't even think of these poor babies, who didn't even have a chance to start their life euthanized. They all have vision problems and need surgery, but there are all sorts of things we can do to help do

Rhode Home Rescue has partnered up with True North Rescue and Transport to help these babies. Rhode Home Rescue is a 501(c)3 dog rescue that relies wholly on donations to help neglected, abused and abandoned animals in RI and in various parts of the country.

These puppies have received minimal vetting care and will need a full workup to determine the severity of their blindness, genetic and other issues. One puppy is in extreme pain due to an enlarged eyeball that will need to be removed. Others are suffering from lack of vision and will need a full work-up as well as to whether their vision can be saved. They are at Florence Animal Clinic.

We don't know much about these pups yet, but we are doing everything we can to ensure they can go on to live happy and normal lives as the adorable puppies they were destined to be. We could not stand by and watch these puppies euthanized without a chance at recovering from their genetic deformities.