Alongside a spider’s web of dirt roads in south Miami-Dade, sandwiched between the mighty Everglades and an Air Force Reserve base, a man can be seen driving a pickup truck every morning.
His name is Eddie Alvarez, and now retired, his day-to-day begins with a ride down these backroads helping the curiously large concentration of stray and abandoned dogs that live there.
He stops, fills up some bowls, and dogs appear out of the derelict, fallow, and actively farmed fields and tangles. Many of them he knows very well, but he doesn’t give them names.
Alvarez runs Eddie’s Dogs, a 501(c)3 that tries to organize food, medical care, and eventually either adoption or foster care for these homeless pooches.
Speaking with NBC 6, Alvarez reckons he feeds about 25 dogs every day; not because there are only 25 dogs along those roads, but because he runs out of food before getting to the rest.
“I deworm them, give them their shots, booster shots, take care of their flea problems and that sort of thing,” he said. “I think they’re God’s greatest gift to man.”
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If they live in the area too long, many of these homeless dogs are hit by vehicles, earning the area the nickname ‘Dead Dog Alley.’
Though they live in junkyard-like environs, many are not junkyard dogs. Many are abandoned when their owners can’t afford to care for them any longer. Alvarez said he has noticed on two occasions, following hurricanes, that the number of new dogs in the area has risen suddenly.
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Anyone in Miami-Dade County who is interested in helping Alvarez’s lifesaving work can visit his website or Facebook page to donate towards food and medicine, offer to adopt or foster one of the dogs, and, if you were ultimately seeking to surrender your dog humanely, you can do it through Eddie’s Dogs.
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