Pitiful deflated puppy plucked from a blind rise on busy Hwy 191 near Chinle, AZ, October 04, 2022. He stumbled onto the road, dried mud in his fur and those hellish burrs stuck between his rough little footpads. I stopped traffic while my betrothed got him into the car (he couldn't run or put up much of a fight). We cleaned him up as best we could while he took a little hydration from some crushed ice and then he crashed hard as seen below:
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This story does have a very happy ending, as now Chinle (rhymes with thinly) is a lean, long-legged, healthy boy who is enthusiastically shredding a cardboard box as I type this

I'll try to get an updated photo, but he appears to be a New Zealand Heading Dog, and greatly resembles the dog in the pic at
this Wikipedia entry. We now have two roadway rescues and consider them both to be great blessings from ______ (insert your preferred PTB here). My betrothed thinks that Chinle is some kind of angel dog who found us more than we found him.