[VIDEO] A Maintenance Worker Spots a Malnourished Dog and Goes to Help

 

 

If you’ve ever lived in an apartment building, you’re likely to have run into maintenance workers. They have to fix everything from leaky faucets to broken lights and more. 

 

Because maintenance workers are allowed into homes to do work, they often get a look at what goes on behind closed doors. Most of the time, there isn’t much to see. 

 

However, something that had never happened before was taking place in a Georgia building.

 

It’s the story of the worst problem that a Clayton County maintenance worker had ever had to deal with. It wasn’t even what the apartment owner had asked him to help with.

 

It was a gray pit bull.

 

The poor dog was just a bunch of bones. The maintenance worker called the police because he thought a dog should not have to live like that. But they told him he couldn’t help him because it would be theft to do so.

 

That’s why the man called animal control, and they put notices on the door of the dog’s owner. There was still a lot of abuse going on until the maintenance worker had his chance.

 

He saw the dog in a cage on the street one morning. His owner had left him. Getting rid of a dog this way was bad, but it also gave the maintenance worker a chance to help.

 

He took the dog out of the cage right away and took him to the closest animal hospital, about an hour and a half away.

 

“When he came up here he was crying, he was in tears, he was in disbelief,” Cinnamon Koch, who works at the animal hospital, tells NBC 11 Alive. “This is the worst case I’ve ever seen. He’s so sweet and loving. All he wants to do is kiss you.”

 

The veterinarian noticed that the dog was very thin and had burns on its paws.

 

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Koch thinks that even though the dog looks bad, he’ll probably live thanks to the maintenance worker who took him to the hospital. To give the dog a name because she didn’t know it, she named him after the dog’s guardian angel, Mikey.

 

As soon as Mikey came, four young girls heard about him and gave him their weekly allowances to help him get better. When they can, they go to the animal hospital to visit.

 

At the hospital, Mikey only weighed about 24 pounds (10 kg), about half of what he should have. 

 

According to NBC, police say they know who did this, and they are investigating the case.