Informant: There is a regular customer who comes daily
The customer has a little issue...
The regular customers who visit the supermarket every day...
They were a black dog and a white dog!
Informant: They appeared last year around this time.
They come and stay here until I give them something to eat.
The brown colored one is 'Gumdoong,' and the white one is 'Hindoong."
The white one is the daughter. They are always together.
They are demanding food
Informant: Come here, let's eat.
While Hindoong comes right to the food, Gumdoong is hesitant.
Gumdoong is moving a little strangely...
One of her legs is caught by a wire snare. She can't walk well as it's hurting her.
I'm worried. I want to help her remove the snare, but she won't come near anyone...
One day,
She appeared, caught in a snare..
Informant: Rescue teams gave up, I tried setting up a capture frame too, but...
she won't go in there. I've tried a few times...
She is very wary of people
Many rescue attempts failed, and the snare is still hurting her leg.
What the informant can do for such Gumdoong is...
Informant: This is for Gundoong.
to prepare special treats for Gumdoong's health.
Gumdoong carefully approaches and eats it.
She bites onto the treats
and started heading somewhere, rather than eating it.
Soon after, Gumdoong came back empty-handed
She bites more snacks and heads somewhere again
She repeated it a couple more times
I can't go too far because my supermarket is here, but I saw that she's going far with her injured leg
Where is she going?
Seeing that she's stacking snacks there, perhaps it's her safe place?
Gumdoong goes over the town and heads to the nearby hill.
Soon after, she came down back, without the snack she had taken with her
Seizing the change that Gumdoong has gone back to town, the production crew searched around!
AND FOUND PUPPIES!
The puppies look exactly like Gumdoong!
Producer: There is the snack she took
We found the snack that Gumdoong moved!
Seeing there are snacks, it must be Gumdoong's puppies..
Has Gumdoong been
walking over 12km to feed her puppies several times a day?
To find more concrete evidence, we set up cameras
When the puppies woke up from their nap and rushed out
Gumdoong appeared!
Gundoong has been hiding her puppies
in this hill, providing food from town with her injured leg.
AT that time, Gumdoong started throwing up.
She let the pups eat the puke
Is this how she's been feeding the pups?
Thanks to her endeavor, the pups look very healthy.
We heard a story about the two.
Local: Gumdoong had few pups, the guardian took only a few of them,
and left Gumdoong and Hindoong behind when they moved.
I think Gumdoong and Hindoong had been a stray dog since then.
One day, the guardian moved, not taking Gumdoong and Hindoong.
Gundoong had to be separated from her pups and from her guardian
Perhaps it's due to the memory of losing her pups before her eyes,
she's been raising her pups hidden on the hill.
She delivers food to the pups with her injured leg everyday
and throw up to feed the pups
The next day,
Gumdoong's injured leg seems to be hurting her even more
Informant: Why is she... I think she's in pain
PD: You think she's in pain?
PD: Does she look worse?
Informant: She's usually not that droopy.
In this state,
it'll be challenging for her and the pups to go through summer
We decided to check up on the pups, first
Park Soon-Seok, Vet/ Come here.
The pups comes easily.
The pups are pretty chubby, though they have skin disease
They look healthy
The puppies are healthy!
This is all thanks to the mother dog's endeavor
She's been storing a lot in her stomach to feed her later.
the expansion of the stomach might have impacted negatively on her health
Her actions to feed her pups may have damaged her stomach
First things first, Gumdoong needs to be rescued
The rescue is urgent. I can see with my eyes that the snare has been burrowing into her skin already.
If the snare has burrowed into her leg deeply, we might have to amputate her leg
The rescue will be difficult as Gumdoong is very cautious.
We decided to set up a capture frame and wait
soon, the two appeared
Gumdoong follows after Hindoong and comes into the frame.
The two are finally rescued!
Informant: It's okay. Good girl. Go in.
Hearing the voice of the lady who's been taking care of them
Gumdoong relaxes and allows the helping hands.
Puppies, too, are all rescued!
How is Gumdoong's leg?
Park Soon Seok, Vet: The ligament is already damaged and it's been neglected for too long. It won't be able to recover its function
however, the ligament on the other side and the veins are alive, so he'll be able to use the leg
to a point where he can step on with it. How fortunate.
He'll be okay after the surgery!
For the last year,
this snare had been making Gumdoong live in pain
Even with the injured leg, she did everything she could for her pups
We hope she'll recover well and go back to her pups' side
Gumdoong's surgery went very well. Once recovered, she'll get some rehab training. Then, she'll be able to walk normally
She took such good care of the pups. Skin diseases are getting treated
with supplements and medicated bath so it will be cured within a week
We wish Gumdoong's family a happy life!