The dog beside the road was so badly starved that I thought he was already dead until his eyes moved toward me.Shop Dog Food
When I lifted him, his useless back legs hung beneath a body that weighed almost nothing, and instead of fighting me, he pressed his face against my chest and began to cry.
I believed abandonment was the worst thing that had happened to him.
Less than two hours later, a veterinarian would show me an X-ray and tell me that whatever had happened to him had begun weeks before anyone left him beside that road.
I had received the message at 4:12 that afternoon.
Dog abandoned near the park. Cannot stand.Shop Dog Food
There was one photograph attached.
A black dog lay curled at the edge of a strip of dead grass beside the pavement. His coat was dirty enough that I could not tell whether the gray patches along his back were dust or missing fur. His ribs showed clearly. One front paw rested beneath his chin.
