A young dog discarded in a dumpster is fighting for survival ? a struggle so heroic his Wisconsin rescuers have named him ?Braveheart.?
The year-old Labrador/shepherd mix rescued by a Madison couple and being treated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary Teaching Hospital, was discovered in a public trash bin in Kentucky– starved, sick and suffering from mange and a massive worm infection. He was so weak he could barely stand.