Who could guess how long Sawyer waited on that Texas roadway, exhausted and unsure if anyone would ever care enough to pull over?

Cars sped past as if he weren’t even there, and he lay flat on the pavement as though he had simply given up on being noticed.

When animal advocate Zully Vasquez Ventura drove by and saw him stretched out without even lifting his head at incoming vehicles, she felt an instant weight in her chest.

Sawyer didn’t move, didn’t react, and seemed to have accepted his fate .

Ventura set food out for him along with meals for the other strays roaming the street.

Sawyer limped toward it, making his effort slow and painful. His injury was clear, yet the moment he approached, the other dogs aggressively blocked him from eating .

Worried he wouldn’t make it much

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