{"id":536674,"date":"2026-04-17T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536674\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:03:18","slug":"employee-goes-to-use-landfill-bathroom-and-finds-shivering-shar-pei-hiding-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536674\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Goes To Use Landfill Bathroom And Finds Shivering Shar-Pei Hiding Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, Audray Luck, founder of Georgia-based Luck\u2019s Rescue<\/a>, got a call from a woman who\u2019d just found a stray dog on her property. While Luck was in the process of setting up a foster placement for the dog, the woman told Luck she\u2019d given the dog away to a stranger.<\/p>\n

Luck was disappointed and deeply concerned about the dog\u2019s safety and well-being. She had no way of knowing where the pup had ended up and assumed she\u2019d never get to help her.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Luck got another call about a Shar-Pei who\u2019d been abandoned at a local garbage and recycling transfer station. One of the transfer station\u2019s employees had arrived at work and found the dog in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

Luck’s Rescue<\/p>\n

When Luck arrived and saw the dog, she couldn\u2019t believe her eyes \u2014 the pup in the bathroom was the exact same one the woman had called about the previous day. As heartbroken as Luck was to see the Shar-Pei abandoned at a landfill, she was also relieved. The dog was finally going to get some help.<\/p>\n

Luck pieced together that the dog was likely dumped at the landfill the previous night, when temperatures fell well below freezing. The Shar-Pei must have gotten cold and found shelter in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

Luck’s Rescue<\/p>\n

\u201c[S]he was smart enough to find her way into that sheltered space to try to keep out of the wind and keep out of the weather,\u201d Luck told The Dodo.<\/p>\n

Luck could tell that the dog was in rough shape \u2014 she had skin issues and looked underfed. She rushed the pup, whom she named Petunia, to the vet, where they started her on medications and determined that she was going to need surgery on her eyelids.<\/p>\n

Luck’s Rescue<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Shar-Peis just having so much skin, their eyelids tend to roll inward, and then that causes an infection in their eye,\u201d Luck said. \u201cSo they have to have this surgery \u2014 it\u2019s kind of like an eye lift \u2014 to keep that eyelid from rolling in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite everything Petunia had been through, she had a sweet personality and felt comfortable around Luck almost instantly.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could definitely tell she was mistreated and neglected throughout her life,\u201d Luck said. \u201cAnd she was so easily able to regain that trust with people \u2026 I named her Petunia after the flower because she was like a little flower blooming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luck’s Rescue<\/p>\n

Once Petunia was recovered, she was transferred to Michigan-based Big Lake Humane Society<\/a>. In early April, she got adopted. After getting dumped in a landfill bathroom, Petunia now gets to finally be loved by a caring forever family.<\/p>\n

To keep up with Luck’s rescues, you can follow her on Instagram<\/a>. If you’d like to support her rescue work, you can make a donation here<\/a>.\u00a0\"Dog<\/a>Dog Desperate For Affection Crawls Under Neighbors\u2019 Fence Every Day To Ask For Love\u201cShe started coming over pretty much on a daily basis …”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few months ago, Audray Luck, founder of Georgia-based Luck\u2019s Rescue, got a call from a woman who\u2019d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36148,5439,5478,59,102,180,28654,5438,5436,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-alana-francis-crow","9":"tag-daily-dodo","10":"tag-dogs","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-pets","14":"tag-rescue","15":"tag-standard","16":"tag-the-dodo","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}