On March 16, maintenance workers in New Jersey were pulling garbage out of a chute when they found a starving, emaciated pitbull who was so neglected his bones were protruding and he had no body temperature.

He was rushed to an emergency veterinary facility where the staff pumped him full of fluids and covered him in warming blankets. The pitbull made it through the night and in to March 17 when he was named "Patrick".