In the Spring of 2019, volunteers with Stray Rescue of St. Louis (SRSL) received a numbing call about a wounded pup tied to a fence. The team was instantly worried, but it wasn’t until they arrived on the scene that they realized the magnitude of the situation.
They’d gone out to rescue a dog, but the sweet soul they found looked nothing like one.
“His face was swelled up about [five] times the size it should be,” SRSL wrote in a Facebook post. “His wounds went unattended, and he sat there in the sun suffering.”
The team was astonished when they finally saw the helpless boy, and they jumped into action immediately to save him.
The pup, whom they’d later name Marco, had waited days for someone to find him. He was elated to see the rescue team but in too much pain to show it.
“His entire body was filled with infection,” SRSL wrote. “We told him to hang on and to fight.”
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