MEXICO CITY — A dog reportedly mutilated by Mexican drug traffickers is recovering at a sanctuary for abused and abandoned dogs.
Pay de Limon, or Lemon Pie, was fitted with prosthetic front legs last year, says sanctuary owner Patricia Ruiz
The Belgian shepherd mix now walks, jumps and runs.
The dog was left in a trash can to die after his two fronts legs were cut off, says Ruiz.
She says people who asked her to help Pay de Limon told her that drug traffickers used the dog to practise for mutilating humans.
Pay de Limon is one of 128 abused dogs living at the Milagros Caninos sanctuary.
Blind, deaf or ill dogs — even dogs on wheelchairs — frolic and run around the huge sanctuary in the southern part of Mexico City.
Belgian shepherd mix, Pay de Limon or Lemon Pie, utilizes his prosthetic front legs on the grounds of the “Milagros Caninos,” sanctuary for abused and abandoned dogs, in Mexico City, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. Sanctuary owner Patricia Ruiz, right, says Pay de Limon, who was fitted with prosthetic front legs, was found last February in a trash can where he was left to die after his two fronts legs were surgically removed. Pay de Limon is one of 128 abused dogs living in the vast Milagros Caninos sanctuary in southern Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
