Sick Dog Goes From Flooded Pen to Hands of Love
Miley didn’t have much reason to smile at her old home in rural North Carolina.
She was confined to this cramped, filthy pen for 24 hours a day. The tall, undisturbed grass at the gate silently indicated how long it had been since anyone had entered the enclosure to visit Miley or so much as pat her on the head.
Heavy rains had caused the pen to become chronically flooded, and as she had no way of escaping the muck, the pup had contracted a painful bacterial infection that had caused her feet to become swollen and inflamed.
On top of that, the skin on her neck was being rubbed raw by her too-small collar, which had been put on when she was a puppy and never changed. The wound was destined to get worse as the collar eventually became embedded in her neck—a condition that PETA sees with depressing frequency in neglected “backyard dogs.”
But Miley escaped that fate, because PETA fieldworkers persuaded her owners to let this butterfly fly away from the chain-link prison.
With antibiotic treatment and a new, properly sized collar, she’s on the road to recovery and ready to party in the U.S.A.
She’s certainly living up to her name now. Look at that gorgeous smile!
If you want to help Miley start all over, e-mail [email protected].
