When a family heard barking coming from the home next door, they didn’t think anything of it at first — until they realized it wasn’t stopping. After hearing the barking for days, the family assumed that the dog they were hearing had been abandoned and was crying out for help.
“We found JD in one of the bedrooms tied to a radiator with about 12 inches of chain so he couldn’t move very much,” Anthony Pulfer, deputy chief inspector with the RSPCA, said in a press release. “He was sat in his own feces and urine and didn’t have any access to food or water. We think he had been there for at least 48 hours.”
“You could see where he had tried to escape previously and chewed his way out of the room as there was damage to the door,” Pulfer said. “When I took him outside he immediately went to the toilet so the poor dog had clearly been trying to hold it in. He also had red rings around his eyes which indicated he was severely stressed.”
“JD gets on well with other dogs, he gets on well with us and other people and he’s doing great,” Matt Dovey, JD’s new dad, said in a press release. “He loves laying in the garden and playing with his ball. There’s nothing more important to him than his ball!”
“I was happy to take part in ‘Dog Rescuers,’ but I do think it’s going to be really upsetting to watch JD in that state and see the conditions he was living in,” Dovey said.
After he stars in the show, the whole world will get to see everything that JD went through, and learn just how resilient dogs can be.