My name is Asia. I started my life being as a helpless puppy being beaten with a 2×4 on a daily basis until my owners broke my leg. I laid there in excruciating pain until the neighbor called animal services. When they came to get me, my owners relinquished me to their “care” which really meant they sent me to die.

So, I sat in the shelter with a broken leg until my time was up and then I was headed to the euthanization room when that same neighbor decided to save me. She asked a rescue to pull me instead of adopting me outright. Well, she kept me about a year. She found out I was heartworm positive among other things and I had some anxiety issues. Who wouldn’t? I was jumping the fence because I wanted to be back with her. So she too gave up on me and surrendered me.

Now I have been at this rescue kennel for two years. Fortunately, I am heartworm free but I still have some anxiety. Not one person has shown interest in adopting me. I guess because there are mostly little dogs here and it’s not the place people look for a more substantial lady like me.

I’m only 50 lbs and have quite the bikini body but I’m a pitbull and that seems to deter many people. I do have anxiety issues which people here have been working on. I go on the treadmill sometimes and one of my favorite volunteers takes me home quite often and I go swimming in her pool or the lake. I love to follow her dogs. They help guide and balance me and that really helps because I am a follower, not a leader. I get along well with most other dogs but I am selective of the people I like. I trust dogs more than I do people and with very good reason.

A few months ago a volunteer named Melanie started taking me to her home where she has 3 dogs (Bo, Itsy and Sweetie). They are all rescues too. We all understand what it is like to be sad and alone. Perhaps that is why I get along with them so well. When I am at their house we swim, play ball and Frisbee, and I get to be a dog in a home. I sooo badly want that for my very own.

I know I can be challenging but I have so much love to give the right person if we could just find each other…

Asia’s caretakers at the rescue say she is has been through obedience training and they are working to get her through her fears, especially a volunteer name Melanie.

Asia gets along SUPER with other dogs and the staff says that while she can “turn it on,” Asia also has an “off switch.”

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“In a quiet house in our city we heard a thin yelping sound. It was a dog whose life was near its end,” said Zselyko. “We approached a decrepit gate and there he was, an extremely skinny big dog with sad eyes. When he saw us, he slowly approached us. [The dog] clearly didn’t have any strength because he was hungry, thirsty, cold, and who knows what else.”

Even though Vucko could have easy escaped the home – the fence was short and if the dog wanted to jump over it, he could have – he stayed and waited for his humans to come back for him. They never did.

The animal rescuer contacted neighbors and learned Vucko’s owners had recently moved away abandoning him. The dog owners left and didn’t bother to leave a bowl of water, let a lone a plate of food for Vucko.

“They left him in a yard full of trash. They literally sentenced him to death,” said Zselyko.

Rescuers knew that Vucko needed help. They fed him and made arrangements to transport him to a safe house. Rescuers knew that if they left the dog at the abandoned home, the pet would starve or be killed by animal control.

Zselyko and his friends don’t run a registered animal organization. They volunteer at local animal shelters and use their own salaries to rescue and protect dogs from euthanasia.

Leaving Vucko behind was not an option for these animal lovers, instead they want to find him a loving owner who will love him unconditional and never abandon him again, but before they can do this, they need to nurse the emaciated dog back to health.

Vucko is believed to be two- to three-years old and is extremely under weight. He needs emergency medical care to treat parasites. He will need vaccinations and to her neutered, but at this moment, Zselyko and his friends can’t afford to cover all of the dog’s medical costs. They are asking the community to help them save Vucko.

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