Some cases of animal cruelty are almost impossible to comprehend. Just when it feels like I’ve seen the worst, another heartbreaking story of neglect surfaces and shakes me all over again.

This time, it was Daytona — a defenseless dog cruelly discarded inside a trash compactor in Daytona Beach.

He was only minutes away from losing his life when Brandon Arroyo, an officer with Florida’s Wildlife Conservation Commission, received a call that stunned him. Luckily, that call also turned out to be the beginning of Daytona’s new life.

A Heartless Abandonment

As soon as Brandon got the alert, he and his wife, Heather, rushed to the apartment complex to check on the report.

“My husband received a courtesy call from a resident in our apartment complex that a dog had been dumped in the trash co

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