Neglected Dog Found With Collar Embedded In His Neck Makes Full Recovery

A dog that was found with his collar cutting through his flesh and just inches away from rupturing his jugular vein has made a full recovery and is ready to be rehomed.

Gary, a pit bull, was discovered at a mobile home park in the U.S. state of Kansas earlier this year. He was tied to a post, and his collar gripped his neck so tight that it almost killed him, Yahoo News Australia reported.

Workers from Beauties and Beasts, a Wichita-based animal rescue center, even had to sedate the dog before they could remove his collar.

"The wound is about 1.5 inches deep and dangerously close to severing his jugular vein," the rescue center wrote in a Facebook post dated July 15. "The abuse and neglect that continues in this world and our community are heart-breaking. These innocent animals are paying the ultimate price living in a society of humans that treat them as disposable objects."

"Sweet boy" Gary lived a "horrible life of neglect" but showed resilience, the rescue center noted in a medical update released via Facebook on July 23.

"We may never know how someone allowed this to happen to him but are grateful for the opportunity to erase the pains of the past and rewrite his future," it added.

Gary has since made a full recovery, and his neck is now "completely healed," the rescue center revealed in a post on Sept. 9. However, he is still in search of a suitable owner who can give him a loving home.

Beauties and the Beasts has to put Gary up for adoption as the center is at capacity after "overwhelming" post-pandemic returns of dogs by their owners.

Gary remains under the care of the rescue center as he patiently waits if someone is kind enough to adopt him. The center is unsure if Gary is friendly with other dogs and therefore believes he should be the only animal living in his new home.

In August, a group of Missouri cave divers who were mapping out a cave as part of research work rescued a pup that had been abandoned for two months. One of the cave divers, Rick Haley, found the dog and alerted the authorities. He, along with another diver, managed to rescue the canine after crawling and squeezing through narrow chambers. Haley said the pup was "in bad shape" and "lethargic."