It was the start of an already busy day for the staff at Unleashed Pet Rescue and Adoption in Mission, Kansas, last Thursday morning — and then they saw her.
Outside the shelter was an emaciated boxer, lying motionless inside a bag full of garbage.
“Tears came right away,” Rebecca Taylor, PR manager for the rescue, told The Dodo. “We were not sure if [she] … was alive. She could not lift her head.”