The dog’s body temperature must have melted the tar, sticking her fur to the barrel. As a result, she unable to move even a little bit. And to make matters worse, the heat of the sun made the metal barrel so hot that it burned the skin on her face.
When animal advocates at Animal Aid Unlimited in Rajasthan, India heard about the dog, they headed straight to the scene.
The dog was as thirsty as can be and the Animal Aid team figured that she had been stuck in the barrel for several days without food or water. With not a minute to spare, the team gave her some water and set about getting her out of the barrel.
The dog was stuck so badly that the rescue team had no choice but to bring the whole barrel back to the Animal Aid.
They started by cutting the barrel open with a metal cutter. Then, they loosened the tar from the dog’s fur with vegetable oil. It took more than three hours to remove enough tar from the dog’s body that she could get back on her legs again.
But in the end, the dog, whom they called Asha, or Hope in Hindi, was tar-free and got her health back.
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