“He is such a sweet dog,” Jonathan Manaoat, one of the hikers, “He allowed my friend and I to pet him and he gently ate our food out of our hands.”
They were shocked that the dog had been a victim of such cruelty: “Someone did this intentionally,” Manaoat told the outlet. “They left him stranded, down a hill in the middle of nowhere off the side of the road. They left him suffering. They left him for dead.”
The dog also had inflammation and warts around his body, and its suspected he was exposed to poison oak.