abandoned

Hope for Paws got a call about a stray dog that had been living in a lot.  There were many escape routes, so capturing him would be difficult.  Eldad Hagar and Lisa Arturo blocked up the holes and brought a huge net to corner him.

When Chance, an American Staffordshire terrier, was rescued back on April 4, 2014, he was a broken dog. He was just 13-weeks-old and his previous owner tossed him from a moving vehicle while driving down Michigan Ave. in Cocoa, Fla. The puppy was skin and bones, and on top of his malnourished state he was now left with three broken legs.

The Connecticut Humane Society in Waterford wants to know who abandoned a sweet-natured, two-year-old, female Boxer just a short distance away from their front door. The dog was found tied to a post with just two feet of slack, but what surprised rescuers is that instead of being tied with a leash the pet’s previous owners used an electric cord.

While Emilia Lucchese walked the streets of Messina, Sicily, she discovered an abandoned and dehydrated dog dumped inside a garbage container. The male dog was weak and had his legs tied up with wire. Someone dumped the innocent pet inside a garbage can. Lucchese only realized there was an animal in need inside the container, after overhearing the dog’s faint whines. When she opened the bin’s lid she discovered a tied plastic bag with the agonizing dog inside it.

On July 23, 2014, an abandoned and malnourished three-year-old American Bulldog mix was found in great need, roaming the streets of Southwest Miami-Dade, Fla. The dog has been named Nikkos and suffers from Masticatory Myositis, an autoimmune disorder in which the tissues of the jaw become so inflamed, that the dog cannot open his mouth to eat or drink. Nikkos was slowly starving to death.

When found, he weighed 44 lbs. when his normal weight should be 65 lbs.