It’s a call that rescuers hate getting. There was a dog that had been abandoned on a pile of trash on someone’s porch. The caller believed that the dog might be dead. Thankfully, the pittie was not dead, but it smelled awful and was in really rough shape.

When the rescuer arrived, the dog looked up at her with a defeated look on its face as though it was giving up on life. They say the dog smelled like she was rotting from the inside out. But once the dog realized that the rescuers were there to help, she started to walk around and got livelier.

Watch the video to learn more about this troubling story and the dog that wouldn’t give up.

The story has a happy ending!