Poor Homeless Pooch Is Eating Weird – She Opens Her Mouth, And Her Rescuer Gets A Jolt

When Liz Oeffner spotted a poor homeless pup wandering around Detroit’s West Side, she knew she had to help.

The poor filthy pooch was limping along beside a busy interaction, and Liz was immediately worried that the injured dog might get hit by traffic.

Liz was quick to stop and scoop up the scared but gentle pooch; after getting her out of harm’s way, she promptly took her new charge home.

As you might expect, the first thing this rescuer did was give the hungry pup some food. She was obviously hungry!

But the dog seemed to be eating strangely … it just didn’t look natural or comfortable.

So, Liz knelt down and got the dog to open her mouth, and that’s when she was met with a shocking surprise…

As she wrote on Facebook:

“She was eating weird. I assumed she didn’t have any teeth.

Then she yawned. She didn’t have a tongue.”

The homeless pup didn’t have a tongue, and apparently hadn’t had one for a very long time!

Liz quickly contacted a local rescue group, Detroit Pit Crew, who agreed to take the stray in and see if they could help her out.

The vet couldn’t believe this amazing pup had managed to survive without a tongue, either, and Detroit Pit Crew founder and director Theresa Sumter added:

“I have seen a lot of very strange things, very sad things in Detroit with dogs, but I have never seen a dog without a tongue.”

But it certainly hasn’t stopped this brave pup from pushing forward!

Her pals at the shelter have given her the nickname Helen Keller, and appropriately so. The question is, will someone out there give Helen the fur-ever home she deserves?

She can’t do a lot of things – like lick herself – but she’s a perfectly sweet dog.

Nobody will ever know if she lost her tongue due to an injury of some kind, or if Helen was born without a tongue. But does it really matter?

She has amazingly survived this long … shouldn’t she finally receive the reward of a loving home? 🙂

Source: I Heart Dogs