He looked like an old man — wait to see what he looks like now ❤️ Carmello's rescuers told us about his healing journey, and how he got so silly and floppy once he was feeling better!
00:12It was absolutely heartbreaking because that state of neglect and that amount of Demodex doesn't just happen overnight.
00:18Hi, big man.
00:20He was dumped in a known dumping area in a very rural county.
00:24I'm a ham sandwich. Oh, buddy.
00:27Yes, I bet. It's for you.
00:30Hey, Carmelo. Are you okay?
00:36Yummy. Good boy.
00:39He was so emaciated and underfed.
00:42I thought this was a broken rib because it flared out right here.
00:46Those first couple days, it was really just coexisting in his space and making sure he knew that he was safe.
00:52After we got him through the woods and we were really confident that he was going to make it, my colleague Allison was ready to take on the challenge of Carmelo.
00:59You could tell that he really loved people. He was so floppy and just so goofy. He was feeling so much better.
01:07Hi, baby. It took a couple weeks before he had any hair at all growing back. He started gaining weight.
01:16We had this wonderful family reach out. They had breed experience. They had medical experience.
01:21They absolutely loved him.
01:25Carmelo had such a rough first few months of his life that I don't think he ever really got to enjoy being a puppy.
01:30And now that he's really out of the woods, he really gets to be a normal puppy again.
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