Hal was so emaciated when he was rescue that the bad goofball is now barely recognizable .
When Hal arrived atMain Line Animal Rescuein April he looked like , as the rescue put it , a " walking skeleton . "
You could signal out each of his costa . His large head was sunken , and he was covered in sores after he ’d spent mean solar day famish , tied to a tree in Philadelphia . He weighed only a little more than half his healthy weight .
Photo: Courtesy of Main Line Animal Rescue
And yet , he was somehow so excited to see everyone , suppose Alicia Royer , DVM , a veterinary surgeon at Main Line . He was try on to waggle his injure hind end and give out kisses . So it ’s no curiosity Hal was adopted as shortly as he was eligible this preceding weekend .
" He ’s the type of Canis familiaris you ca n’t not screw , " Royer tells Daily Paws .
Hal Was in ‘Dire’ Shape
Hal arrived at Main Line on April 28 after he was first treat at the Pennsylvania SPCA . A concerned person in Philadelphia had found him tied to a tree on Easter morning ( April 17 ) , and the SPCA ’s human law enforcement squad disembarrass him from the tree .
The staff theretended to him quicklyto stabilise him , clean his injury , and get him some food for thought . The tip of his damage tail fell off , and he only librate 43 pounds . He also became ill , likely because he ’d feed legion animal bones to judge to quell alive , Royer says .
Hal was so waste that he ’d lose pretty much all his fatness and muscle , and Royer measured him at 1 on the bodycondition grade , the most severe rating . It ’s improbable he would ’ve endure much longer bind to the tree .
" I think it was very horrific , " Royer order . " … I do n’t know if I was bear that . "
Just over a week later , he make it at Main Line .
Hal the Goofball Finds a Home
Hal , who Royer thinks is about 3–5 geezerhood old , set about a strict refeeding programme so he could bulk back up while his ever - glad nature proceed to serve him well .
Royer and the rescue ’s veterinarian staff could n’t keep open his hind end — the lesion had exposed a os — so they had to cut off it . But when Hal wake up from the surgery , he was wiggling the little nub he had left .
" Just the happy dog , " Royer says .
The goofy boy care play with toy and enjoys run into other dogs , so much so that he would do trivial record hop with his front feet when he see other pups . Toward the last of his stay , the staff discovered he likes playing with water in a child pocket billiards .
Hal — primitively short for Hallelujah — had reached a much - healthier 76 pounds by the start of June and was soon ready for adoption , Royer sound out . His new owner had kept running of his story since his reaching at Main Line and narrate the rescue she wanted to follow the big - head up love germ as soon as he was level-headed .
After meeting his new family , he was quick for his new domicile — with a with child smile on his face .
