Family Finds Injured Puppy On Their Porch After He Escapes From Dog Fighting
A tiny puppy collapsed on their porch, covered with bite marks. The puppy had been used as “bait” for other dogs learning to bite and savage for the purposes of illegal dog fighting.
The puppy somehow had escaped, or maybe he was dumped. But he crawled until he found help. Unleashed Pet Rescue saw a post on Facebook on Mother’s Day asking for help and found the poor puppy with life-threatening injuries. Jax’s face was swollen, his eyes were shut and he had a big gash in his neck and holes in his head.
Despite the pain he was in, his tail thumped whenever he saw his rescuer. Jax spent nearly 2 weeks in intensive care, but every day his tail thumped a little bit longer until the day he was ready to go into foster care.
Seeing Jax’s recovery up close is heartbreaking, but it reinforces home how truly important it is to not turn the other way to animal abuse.
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If you suspect there may be illegal dog fighting going on in your neighborhood, call your local humane society or animal rescue. If you are in the US, you can call anonymously to The Humane Society of The United States’ National Tipline at 877-TIP-HSUS.
