Just outside Alto Hospicio in Chile’s Tarapacá Region, more than 100 dogs are living among mountains of garbage in the Atacama Desert. Some were born there and have never known another home, while others were abandoned by families and left to fend for themselves among broken glass, rubble, discarded mattresses, and burning rubbish. Clean water is scarce, food is unreliable, and the nearby road creates another danger for animals already struggling to survive.
For the volunteers of Luz Canina – Animal Rescue, helping these dogs has become an ongoing race against time. They make regular trips to the dumping ground with water, food, and medical supplies, but they are facing a problem that cannot be solved by feeding the animals alone. New dogs continue to arrive, females continue to give birth, and there is nowhere near enough shelter or foster space to take them all in. Bored Panda spoke with Luz Canina founder Florencia Butti about the dogs, the challenges of rescuing them, and what it would take to finally break the cycle.
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