{"id":10608,"date":"2024-04-02T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2024-04-02T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:16:20","slug":"trash-crew-finds-tiny-puppy-abandoned-in-garbage-bag-one-man-sees-him-and-knows-its-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=10608","title":{"rendered":"Trash crew finds tiny puppy abandoned in garbage bag \u2014 one man sees him and knows it\u2019s meant to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sometimes animals come into our lives in the most unexpected ways, and we know it\u2019s meant to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently, members of a clean-up crew discovered a dog abandoned in the trash\u2026 and one of them went above-and-beyond to give him a great new life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=801106615389230&amp;set=pcb.801109138722311\">Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0from the Missouri Department of Conservation, a crew consisting of Missouri Stream Teams, Beyond Housing and citizens from a Tiered Community were scouting locations for a clean-up on March 19, when they came across something unexpected in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny puppy had been abandoned in the trash pile, tied up in a black plastic garbage bag. It was heartbreaking that anyone would leave a dog for dead like this, but a miracle he was discovered in time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D801106522055906%26set%3Da.304111705088726%26type%3D3&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One member of the crew was particularly struck by the abandoned pup: Stream Team Coordinator Brian Waldrop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just down on my knees, picked it up, and fell instantly in love,\u201d Brian recalled to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ueEWav-s_NM&amp;ab_channel=FOX2St.Louis\">FOX 2 St. Louis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time he had come across a dog in a trash pile. While their meeting was unexpected and unusual, Brian knew it was meant to be and agreed to take the puppy home himself for good!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32696 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 652px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" alt=\"May be an image of 1 person\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11.jpeg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-djur.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/27203710\/image-11-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1536\" data-eio-rheight=\"2048\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=801106615389230&amp;set=pcb.801109138722311\">Facebook\/Missouri Dept. of Conservation<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He says he gave the dog a wash when they got home: the dog\u2019s initial yellow coloring faded away to reveal a beautiful white coat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is just\u2026 what a great personality, and he is so soft,\u201d Brian said.<\/p>\n<p>Brian told FOX 2 that he hadn\u2019t settled on a name for the dog. While some have suggested garbage-themed names like \u201cHefty,\u201d he has been calling him \u201cDude.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Missouri Dept. of Conservation: Puppy rescued from trash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueEWav-s_NM?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s heartbreaking that anyone would abandon a puppy like this, but we\u2019re so glad everything worked out and he has a great, loving new home! Thank you to Brian for taking this pup in!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes animals come into our lives in the most unexpected ways, and we know it\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}