Moment Workers Discover Puppy Buried in Trash Pile Captured on Video
Shelters are filled with pets whose families no longer want them. You have a wide assortment of abandoned, abused, outgrown or just plain stray dogs.
Some unlucky pups don’t even get the chance to be adopted when their owners ditch them elsewhere. That may have been the case for this adorable little puppy, but it’s hard to imagine anyone just tossing it into the trash.
On August 23, Fernando Marié and his coworkers in Montevideo, Uruguay, were involved in a spur-of-the-moment rescue when a female coworker, Maria, claimed to hear sounds coming from the back of a truck that was full of trash.
It was muffled, but they could still tell that something was buried alive under all that garbage.
“I was in the shower after work and when I was going towards the exit, I found my colleagues Maria, Oscar and Marcel. Maria said ‘I walked by a truck and I thought I heard a noise, don’t know if it’s a baby or an animal,'” Marié later recounted, according to MSN.
“When we opened the truck we found that it was full of garbage and it will be impossible to listen if there was someone or something in it — but we could not have left that untouched so we started to clean all of the trash, we had to be very careful because the pressure could hurt whatever was in there, so we did it with extra care.”
“We started to hear something very very low, a bark so we had to make no noise at all just to listen where it was coming from while we were cleaning the trash — we just used our bare hands, there were so many glass pieces there but that didn’t matter because we just wanted to save what was in there.”
After half an hour of work, they thought they might be getting closer. The yaps were sounding nearer and nearer.
“And out of nowhere, after all that trash we saw a little head and it was a beautiful female dog, she was a little disoriented and stunned by all of that,” Marié said.
The poor pup had some breathing issues because she’d been crushed by the trash, but she was alive and running around!
“Freezing cold, squeezed after all of that, we put her in a cardboard box with a blanket so she could be a little bit warm there, my companions gave her water and some food,” Marié added.
Worried that more than one puppy might have been entombed in waste, they continued their rescue efforts for a time, but they didn’t find anything else. The puppy was cared for, named “Luna,” and adopted.
Fernando can’t imagine the sort of person that would do such a thing. “In fact we don’t know who put her in the middle of that trash but I can’t believe that it was a human being — if you have some feelings you don’t do those things, you just give her to adoption and that’s it, killing a living being is horrible, either animal or human.”
They all went home satisfied with their work and comforted in the knowledge that they’d saved that innocent little pup from a terrible end.
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