Calling all dog lovers! Sign up to our TeamDogs newsletter for your weekly dose of dog news, pictures and stories A four-year-old rescue dog has had three life changing spine operations in the hopes he will be able to walk again and live a normal life.
When Rio moved to the UK two years ago, he was showing some kind of walking difficulty. Vets believe him to be a cross breed Terrier-Frenchie.
The hard working Rochdale women at Paws on Hearts found him abandoned in Spain on top of a mountain in lots of pain, and nobody knows how he got his injuries.
Emma Walsh, 31, from Wirral was following the animal charity on social media , when she came across a picture of Rio on Facebook.
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