A puppy that was "deliberately bred for money" was left dehydrated and barely moving after he was abandoned in a bush.
Just several weeks old, Hamish was "hardly alive" when he was found covered in urine in a bush before being taken to the Carla Lane Animals In Need Rescue centre in Sefton. Being very thin and unable to walk or eat, or even hold his own head up, staff feared the worst, just days before Christmas.
Jane McGee, a trustee of the rescue centre, said she fostered Hamish, who is believed to be around 10-weeks old, and fed him through a syringe. She told the ECHO: "As he was still very poorly, he couldn't go in to a kennel so he came to me on foster.