This dog arrived at a New York City shelter last November after being found ditched in a plastic bucket in shocking shape. He hardly had any fur and his skin was riddled with deep wounds likely from being burned with battery acid and several cigarette burns.
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His front leg was so badly injured it was heart-breaking even for the staffers at Special Needs Animal Rescue Rehabilitation (SNARR) who are used to treating injured animals. But rudy is a fighter and his story only got better from there. After he was given immediate medical attention he was placed in a foster family of veterinarians.