This colliery bull pup ’s story is a unfeigned " Miracle . " Get the tissue paper ready .
Officer Jason O’Neal was call to a community dumpster in a Villa Rica , Ga. , housing complex early Christmas sunrise . He had arrived after a resident heard what sounded like crying coming from inside the dumpster while throwing trash away and like a shot call 911 . O’Neal , a patrol officer with 13 class of experience in natural law enforcement , heard the same whimpering sound .
" It literally scared me , " O’Neal tells Daily Paws . " It was that eerie of a strait . "
Courtesy of Mirie O’Neal
He inspected the dumpster and feel a trash bag with a pit bull puppy and a blanket indoors . O’Neal said he feared the high-risk — the temperature that day was a low of 24 grade , which made it the area’scoldest Christmas Dayon record in the retiring 30 years .
" When I got her out of the crank bag , she was literally frozen . " he says . " I just directly set forth rubbing her down to warm her up . "
O’Neal and a fellow officer on the scene , McKenzie O’Bannon , discuss what to do with the dying wiener . While they wait for animal control services to arrive on the scene , O’Neal made the decision to labour the dog to Atlanta West Veterinary Hospital , where two employees were working Christmas Day , caring for get on animals .
The employee called the clinic ’s veterinarian , Stuart Edwin Burnett Jr. , DVM , who right away head up in to treat the young dog . Upon inspection , Burnett judge the wiener was between 8–12 month previous and had been sternly undernourish before being leave in the frigidness . O’Neal says when they checked the dog ’s temperature , she was too cold for it to register . They venerate she would n’t make it , even with immediate treatment . But after a serial of life - saving efforts , including an emergency blood blood transfusion , it became empty the puppy was pass away to draw through .
By this point , O’Neal knew he was going to take her home , and he knew what her name would be . He named her Miracle , " like a Christmas Miracle . "
" My kids straight off fell in love , " O’Neal tell . " She ’s done something to this menage . It ’s crazy . "
Today Miracle is thriving at home with her new family , which includes O’Neal , his two children , and a 13 - twelvemonth - oldGerman shepherd . O’Neal says Miracle bang encounter with her toy and has cursorily made herself at home , and she ’s been paste to his side since day one . The family maintains an activesocial mass medium comportment dedicated to Miraclewith rafts of endearing pictures and update . They ’ve receive living and boost from people all over the world touched by Miracle ’s story .
Local jurisprudence enforcement is looking for anyone who bonk data about Miracle ’s abandonment . O’Neal says the guinea pig is being investigated , but there have n’t been any public update so far . We ’re so exalt by O’Neal ’s efforts to relieve Miracle and the decision to give her a loving abode . We ca n’t wait to see what this pelt - family does next !
