A dog who was seconds away from being put to sleep was saved at the eleventh hour after a vet checked her phone. The pocket bully, named Pumpkin, was heartlessly abandoned by his owner and tied to the gates of a council-run dog pound.
He was about to be put to sleep after vets suspected he had cancer. But luckily for him, Vet Dr Sharon Williams decided to drive five hours to rescue him.
Under the care of the kennels, Pumpkin was unexplainably and rapidly losing weight he'd come in at 30 kilos and dropped to just 15 within a few months, reports the ECHO. READ MORE Puppy found tied up and abandoned in secluded wooded area 'where nobody would find her' Vet Dr Sharon Williams, the founder of Celandine Wood Animal Rescue (CWAR), said the kennel staff 'suspected he had cancer' and due to the cost of care he was due to be euthanized.
Sharon had in the past agreed to save another dog who was due to be put to sleep, from the same kennels. She got a message from staff to ask if she could also take in Pumpkin.
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