Saving Grace. Grace walked into the shelter as a "stray." Everything about her body tells us she was never just a lost dog. When Grace walks, she hunches over, and you can see how curved her spine and hips are. That kind of curve doesn't come from one bad week. It develops when a dog is confined for very long stretches of time, or grows up that way. We believe Grace spent most of her life locked in a crate, and that she would have died in there if she hadn't gotten out. This wasn't bad luck. Someone did this to her and now she's suffering the life-long consequences.Grace is shockingly an adult bully breed dog who weighs only 14.5 pounds. Her Body Condition Score is 1 out of 9, the lowest score there is. It means her body has almost nothing left. The rest of her tells the same story. Her nails are so overgrown that they've changed the way she stands. Her coat is stained with urine from living in her own waste. Her paws have dropped from prolonged malnourishment and confinement. She has an open pressure wound on her hip, the kind that forms when a body is too thin to cushion itself against a hard floor. Even her teeth are discolored from malnutrition. A dog this starved can't just be handed a full bowl of food. She needs a carefully monitored refeeding plan so her body can safely handle nutrition again and monitored closely for refeeding syndrome which could be deadly.She'll also need x-rays and an orthopedic assessment of her spine, hips and paws to understand what years in a crate have done to her body and what rehab she needs to walk comfortably once her organs are past the shock period.Please help be apart of her saving Grace. No living being should under go the horrors Grace has seen in her short life, it is our mission to make sure the rest of her life is shown that the humans she knew were not what our species are all like. She deserves this at the very least. Donations can be made in the following ways: Our attending Veterinarian office: Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL (727) 848-6247 AHRP will take donations over Paypal: paypal.me/rugazrescueZelle: RugazRescue@Gmail.comCashApp: $RugazRescue

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