The MSPCA is asking the public to help them find the owner of a young dog that had nearly starved to death when it was brought to the non-profit’s Boston animal hospital last week.
A pit bull terrier mix that the MSPCA has named “Dolly” began receiving lifesaving treatment in Angell Animal Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after she was brought to the hospital in the early morning on Jan. 10, the animal welfare non-profit said in a press release. The roughly 2-year-old dog was extremely emaciated, and the person who brought her in claimed to have found her outside Lexington.
“When this dog came in, she was unbelievably thin and too weak to stand up,” MSPCA animal protection vice president Mike Keiley said in the release. “On the scale we use to measure a dog’s body weight, she had the lowest possible score — meaning she was as emaciated as she could be before passing.”
Early examinations by emergency department veterinarians revealed that Dolly had wounds on her feet and tail and gastrointestinal bleeding that required a blood transfusion, the MSPCA said. She soon had several seizures believed to be caused by hypoglycemia…