Young dog found caged in remote wilderness cabin by dog loving family on walk who adopted the neglected pupper, helping him regain his strength and spark, dog mom says: ‘’He likes to lick apple but not eat them’

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    "He couldn't hardly walk"
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    Found a dog after owner recently passed, caged in a hunting cabin. Suspected 4-6days no food no water. My property leads to the state forest and
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    multiple other properties connect in different areas there's no landmarks, I went for a walk Tuesday evening with the kids and reached the cabin. We were told
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    by the property owners we were able to see while walking and they told us no one had been that way since before the rain last week on Friday., & that the owner was not
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    available due to passing. He doesn't seem to want to eat much of the dry kibble we have for our dog but she's a havenese and eats regular adult kibble, but I
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    bought some boneless skinless chicken, i put 5oz of chicken in one cup of water, boil until cooked, and give him both the liquid & chicken.
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    Well it's been 5days since rescuing "yes way Jośe" stranded after losing owner in a cage in a hunting cabin deep in the woods with no food or water for 5days.
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    He couldn't hardly walk, extereme weakness, was going in and out of consciousness, and very lethargic.... After 5days of struggling to find help, and complete confusion
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    on what I should do so scared of failing him after he had already lost everything he knew at such a young age. I'm happy to say he's already gained 5.8lbs!! He loves
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    going for walks as long as im close by, he still very much wants to be in his cage when his in the house which im trying to get him used to being in the house walking
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    wherever he wants, so far the only way he'll walk around the house is if he thinks he's on his lead so I've been just letting him think I'm holding it, at night I take it off and he
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    goes straight for his cage. I tried letting him stay the entire night outside of the cage, and he just howled at the front door and his cage back n forth until 4am when I let him
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    stay in the cage with the door closed. He won't eat or drink in his cage either which I feel is odd, but I don't know previous training I'm basically letting him decide what he does and
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    doesn't like at this point... we are learning from each other...He doesn't like walking in the woods he'll walk the edge, and in the field but as soon as im outta site he
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    hurries back, happily wagging his tail. He's great with cats, other dogs, and humans. He does not like raccoons, ground dogs or opossums, he smells the trail and signals
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    to where they are. He found a family of groung hogs under an old car, and a was very curious when we spotted a baby bunny hopping by he was happy like he wanted it to some
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    play, but when it ran he just turned back around like "oh well". We tried different veggies yesterday, he likes to lick apple but not eat it, he picked the raw carrots, green
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    beans and sweet potatoes out of his food, in a very intelligent manner it wasn't like he ate around them no, he took them out of the bowl walked them to the door and
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    dropped them. Maybe he wants to bury them? Im not sure. He did eat around the sweet peas, on day 3 probably unable to pick them up individually maybe.
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    He doesn't like rice mixed with dry kibble and a raw egg, he completely rejected that meal
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    completely which honestly i would have too!! Hahaha! I'm giving him vaccines next week!!

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