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Australia: RSPCA recounts harrowing story of starved animal

February 22, 2010

IMAGINE, if you can, a dog that arrives at the RSPCA so famished, so utterly starved that every detail of her skeleton is conveyed through the contours of her shrunken skin.

Each crevice in her ribcage, every curve in her pelvis, elaborately enhanced by the fur that should be settled on a layer of fat, or muscle. Except this dog has no fat and her body has been catabolising muscle for days, if not weeks, just so there is enough energy for her to live. She is literally eating herself simply to exist....


Source: RSPCA recounts harrowing story of starved animal


Date: 2010-02-28

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