Little One

"Little One"
PasadoRescuers broke into a house in New Orleans to find a small pup on a kitchen counter. The flood waters had raised him to that point and had left him injured. He had remained in that same position - for weeks. He was so malnourished and dehydrated, he couldn't move. His body was formed, dry and lifeless, into a little ball. He was brought back to the Pasado triage barn in hopes of saving him. That night, Mark Steinway, Pasado's co-founder, slept with him. "I knew he wasn't going to make it. I had to touch him, and let him know that he was loved, even though it was his last night." Mark woke early in the morning to the pup laying in a pool of black, tar-like liquid that had come from both his mouth and his anus. "He was literally dying inside. You could smell it. We knew it was the end for him," recalls Mark...

But they were wrong. The pup made it through the first night. And then the next. He was a little fighter. They named him "Desi" because he was found on Desire Street in New Orleans. His guardian never claimed him so he made the trip to his new home, with Rita Laws, Pasado's Operations Manager, who spent weeks in New Orleans. He shall never want again. Here he is today, with Mandy, a PasadoRescuer from New York. Healthy, Full of life. And never looking back.