Manhattan Nest blogger Daniel Kanter loves a good D.I.Y. project… even if that project has four legs and a waggity tail.
BEFORE
Daniel and his boyfriend Max were walking their dog Mekko when they came across a frantic woman who had found the creature you see above about to be cornered by police in Brooklyn and taken to animal control, where he likely would have been euthanized. The woman thought she might have recognized the dog as a pet from the neighborhood and stepped in, offering to take the dog so that the police wouldn't.
She wanted to know if Daniel and Max recognized the dog -- they didn't -- and she explained that she needed to get her infant home and couldn't possibly keep the pup. She was planning to just leave him tied to the fence there, hoping his owner would walk past and see him. Daniel offered to take him instead, but realized while walking the dirty dog home that he may have gotten himself into a bit of a situation.
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Daniel took the dog home and came to realize what a terrible condition he was in. He writes "it would have been difficult to even decipher this being as a dog at all—more like a pungent clump of matted fur with filthy street waste and poop clinging to its peripheries. When you have a weakness for dogs like I do, there’s something intensely heartbreaking about seeing stuff like this."
Daniel sat down with the little white mess and groomed the pup himself, which took seven straight hours. During this bonding process, he found out the character of the pup he had undertaken. Daniel writes "this little pile of matted fur was kind, and sweet, and seemed to know that something good was happening to him. He seemed to trust me. About halfway through, when his head and the front half of his body were mostly uncovered, he began to lick my face and hands manically, as if suddenly possessed. Little gremlin-dog was becoming unearthed, and he was being super cute about it."
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