“Werewolf” stands on side of road for months: then a stranger approaches and sees the unthinkable

Skinny, balding and completely alone.

This “werewolf” stood by the side of the road for several months. His skin was hard and scaly, his tail was pointy and broken. What was left of his black fur was tattered and stood straight up on his neck.

The dog probably hadn’t eaten a proper meal in weeks and he could barely walk.

Nobody knew anything about the strange creature except that he had been hanging around an orchard in Madera Ranchos, California for a long time.

And nobody dared to approach the animal, which looked scary and dangerous.

People called the poor dog “Werewolf” because they simply didn’t know what kind of animal he was. They were too afraid to get close enough to find out.

Then at the end of March, a passerby saw him and wrote a quick post about him on Facebook from her car.

The woman then waited near the dog until someone arrived to help. And it wasn’t long before another animal hero, Megan Bowe, was on the scene.

“I was about ready to cry when I saw how bad off he was,” Megan Bowe, founder of Bowe’s Adoptable Rescued Pup

Megan immediately realized what this “werewolf” really was: a very sick and neglected German shepherd mix.

She named him “King.” Then, she put him in her car and drove him to an emergency veterinary clinic.

King seemed relieved to finally get help, and he willingly went with Megan.

The veterinarian discovered that King suffered from a variety of diseases and injuries. But his most serious conditions were his scabies, a broken pelvis and a broken tail.

Although he looked quite old, King was only 1 year old.

“My vet thinks he got hit by a car, and that would explain how his tail was so messed up, too,” Megan Bowe says. “That injury happened months ago, because by the time I got him it had already started to heal incorrectly. And with such a damaged pelvis, he wasn’t able to get around very far on his own to look for food so he was extremely skinny and dehydrated.”

Because his diseases were contagious, Megan set up a quarantine area in her garage so King could heal without infecting the other animals she took care of.

She started King on small amounts of food and gradually increased the portions to help him regain his weight and strength at a proper pace.

King needed all the strength he could get before his pelvis and tail...