Animal Lovers

Warning: This video may be considered too graphic for some readers. Pandora the dog was left in a taped up box outside of the  San Jose Animal Care Center on April 23rd of last year. She was discovered to have been seriously abused, with her hair in giant knots and a massive tumor growing out of her right shoulder. It became very clear to the staff at the animal care center that Pandora would need special attention, and they documented her experience in the video below. You don’t need tissues for this one. Just try not to get too angry.

A "football-sized" tumour has been removed from the abdomen of an abandoned dog. The female Jack Russell, discovered alone in Dagenham on 7 January, is being looked after by the South West Essex RSPCA. Insp Mitchell Smith said the dog was in "a terrible state", but after surgery to remove the 2lb 10oz (1.2kg) mass was feeling "a lot better". The charity is appealing for a foster home for the dog. The 12-year-old, which staff called Beautiful Brilliant Betty, was also covered in fleas, has cataracts, poor hearing and needed dental work. The RSPCA is appealing for information on how the dog came to be abandoned.