Update on Sally

My colleague Lee Ferris and I had the opportunity of meeting Sally, the dog found abandoned in a clothing donation bin Monday. Lee took the video above, and I narrated.

Seeing the pictures are one thing, but actually seeing a dog that should weigh almost 40 pounds and only weighs 16 is quite another.

Were it not for her astounding condition — you can literally count her ribs and vertebrae — she acts like a normal pooch. She walked with us to a fenced-in area with her nose to the ground, for the most part she ignored the toys handlers were trying to tempt her with and she tried to climb into Lee's lap while he was trying to get the video of her.

She was licking the face of the humane law officers who found her, and her tail seldom stopped wagging while we were there.

I'll be doing an update on Sally for tomorrow's print version of the newspaper and, of course, for the Web site.

The DCSPCA is taking donations to help pay for Sally's recovery. See this blog entry for more information.