For days, a small white puppy had been stranded in a roadside ditch, frightened, alone, and struggling to comprehend why she had been abandoned.

She was hungry, in pain, and clinging to the tiniest shred of hope she could muster.

“Why did you get me if you weren’t going to love me? Why am I hungry? Why am I in a ditch? Why is everything hurting… Why?”

These questions had no answers, yet everything changed the moment she trusted a kind voice that stopped to help. That single act of compassion transformed her life.

A Frantic Plea

While walking along a quiet road in North Carolina, Margaret Hamilton, founder of Ruby and Laurel Animal Rescue, Inc. , noticed something unusual.

A small white shape was barely discernible in the ditch beside her. She immediately stopped to investigate. K

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