After all this process of cleaning and care, the doctors found that it was a male cocker spaniel. A local rescue team heard about this case on social media and they decided to save the dog. “We had to have this dog,” said Rebecca Payne, of Cocker Spaniel Rescue of Austin and San Antonio. “He is the worst dog I’ve ever seen like that. We wanted to give him a happy life.”

Payne drove right over to the shelter to pick him up. “I was shocked. He was so tiny,” she said. “He was so underweight you could see almost every bone in his body. I think the mats were so bad he couldn’t open his mouth to eat.”

The rescuers named it Hamish and continued to take care of it with different treatments. It needed a dental surgery too. “Every dog has about 42 teeth,” Payne said. “Hamish had to have so many removed he has only 11 out of 42 left.”