Crew Shows Up To Repossess SUV And Saves This Starving Pit Bull Locked In The Back

A 1-year-old Pit Bull Terrier was found locked in the back of an SUV on Friday, but fortunately, things are about to turn around for him.

When a crew from an Ohio dealership showed up to repossess a car, they didn’t expect to find a creature living in the back of it.

“Superior Auto here in town went to repo the vehicle, and on their way back to their dealership, they heard something in the back, and that’s when they discovered this dog was in a crate,” said Jim Tate, director of the Clinton County Humane Society.

Once the repossession team members realized there was a dog in the back, they stopped the car.

“If you’d seen the vehicle, it was nasty throughout,” Tate said, who also told an Ohio news source that the bottom of the crate was filled with urine and fecal matter that led investigators to believe the poor animal had been there for a long time. They weren’t sure exactly how long the Pit Bull had been living in the back of the car, but based on the condition he was in, it was too long.

“They got him out,” said Ben Pfeffer, treasurer of Paw Pals of Clinton County, which pays for treatment of neglected animals that arrive at the shelter. “The Superior people were really good about it. They called right away. In fact, they went over to Marsh and got some dog food for him. He ate.”

Sources say he then ate and ate and ate and ate. When they gave him water, he lapped it down for almost three days straight. 

“We don’t know how long he’d been in there,” Tate said. “The dog is pretty emaciated.”

The Pit Bull has since been adopted by one of the crew members who found him and appropriately named him Repo. Repo is a mild-mannered pooch was restored to health by the Paw Pals.

“We’ve been in contact with the owners. They knew what was going on,” Tate said. “They told me he was in there just overnight because they had a family emergency.”

But Tate and Pfeffer doubt that since the owners were not allowed to have dogs in their house.

Fortunately for Repo, he is now in the hands of a loving family who can care for him. If this story makes your heart tingle with joy, please SHARE with your friends and family and to stop animal abuse from happening.

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