PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A puppy is continuing to recover after being found inside a garbage bag on the side of a road. One west Michigan woman’s decision to stop her car likely saved the German shepherd’s life.
Sarah Wood, a Bedford resident, was on her way to work on Wednesday when she said she heard what sounded like crying coming from the side of the road. It was around 6:30 a.m. when she pulled over on East Ave N near Morgan Rd., got out of the car, pulled out her flashlight and found something she described as unthinkable.
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“I saw a puppy hanging out of a garbage bag,” she said. “His head was out and I saw his little paws and I knew I just had to help,” Wood said.
Inside the bag, a tiny German Shepherd puppy was fighting for air. She said she panicked, took him out of the bag and got him into some blankets.
“He had sores on him, his head was leaned all the way back — almost touching his bottom — he was covered in his own feces and he had fly larvae all over him,” she said. “It’s unbelievable that somebody would do something like this to a puppy, to any living thing.”…