In the United States, dogs are usually considered lovable pets or loyal service animals, however, many other places around the world don’t hold our four-legged companions with such high regard, and unfortunately, consider them a source of food.
Instead of being showered with love and affection, this 2-year-old Golden Retriever mix found herself trapped in a dog meat farm in South Korea where she was hung upside down by her paws in a dark room, forced to overeat to gain weight, and repeatedly beaten to make her meat more tender.
However, her legs were tied so tightly that soon her skin became infected, which quickly spread to her entire body. Since her meat was no longer edible, she was thrown away in a garbage bag and left to die from the infection and starvation.
Luckily, the sick dog named Chi Chi, which is Korean for ‘loving’, was found just in time, and was taken immediately to a veterinarian who had to amputate all four of her legs to keep her alive.
“She survived and the day after surgery she was trying to walk. She was smiling and wagging her tail,” said Shannon Keith, president of Animal Rescue, Media & Education. “Then, a couple days later, she even started walking on her little stumps.”
After 2 months in recovery, Chi Chi came a long way and has now even found a forever home in Arizona with the Howell family, who hopes to fit her with her own prosthetics and hopefully one day train her as a therapy dog for kids and veterans who had lost limbs.
“She can walk. She can run,” Megan Howell said. Chi Chi can do just about everything that a dog with all of their paws can do except go up the stairs.
Watch the entire video below to see Chi Chi’s stunning transformation.
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