“How he survived is a miracle”: Starving Dog “Alex” Weighed Just 43 Pounds, Was Surviving on Rocks and Twigs When Animal Lovers Rescued Him

by Sierra Marlee | October 24, 2014 1:58 pm

Here is your warm and fuzzy story of the day: Alex the dog was on death’s door when a group of animal lovers rescued him. A scan of his stomach showed that we had eaten twigs and rocks in a desperate attempt to survive. When threatened with euthanasia if he wasn’t claimed, a no-kill shelter took him in and placed him on a prescription weight-gain diet, promising to give him to a good home when he is healthy enough.[1]

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According to The Daily Mail:[3]

His rescuers described him as terrified, emaciated, severely neglected and clinging to life.

But Alex – a heartbreakingly-malnourished dog who was found wandering the streets of New Orleans, surviving off nothing but rocks and twigs – never stopped being a kind, lovely animal.

‘He was still so nice and sweet and forgiving despite, obviously, the neglect he has suffered for some time,’ said Deanna Theis, the assistant director of the Southern Animal Foundation, a no-kill rescue organization.

Theis saw a picture of Alex appear on a website for a local animal control center, and realized he would be euthanized unless someone like her went to save him.

‘How he is still alive at this point is pretty much a miracle,’ Deanna Theis told Fox 8.

‘He was extremely close to death.’

It is not known who abandoned him.