Margaret is a one-year-old Labrador mix in San Antonio, TX, who needs $1,051 for urgent care.

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Animal shelters are filling back up with dogs and cats! Some shelters, especially in Texas, are euthanizing animals for space reasons, and that's what nearly happened to Margaret. "The poor pup, who is just a mere pup herself, was dumped at the animal control facility with her puppies. Someone likely owned Margaret and never got her spayed. Then when she had puppies, the litter was an unwanted surprise," Lucky Lab Rescue and Adoption tells Waggle.

The shelter Margaret ended up in has a horrible practice of separating the mother dogs from their puppies, and sometimes the puppies get rescued, and the mother dog doesn't. "If the shelter gets full, it sends the mother dog to the kill room to be euthanized! When we heard Margaret was released for euthanasia, we had minutes to get her pulled from there. We were frantic and had to intervene quickly," the rescue says.

Kind volunteers got Margaret out and drove her to Callahan Road Animal Hospital so she would be safe. The medical team there discovered she was missing a lot of hair due to a skin infection, and she had atrocious ear infections that needed to be treated. When she's well enough, and ready Lucky Lab will make sure she is spayed so this litter of puppies will be her last. "We think once Margaret gets the love and medical care she needs; she will blossom into a diamond. We love seeing these diamonds in the rough turn into real gems," the rescue adds.

Right now, Lucky Lab says it is being inundated with medical cases and dogs on death row in shelters with minutes to live. "We are just trying to keep up. We need all the help we can. We appreciate anyone who will donate to help Margaret get the second chance she deserves at happiness!"