{"id":277153,"date":"2026-05-19T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277153\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:58:34","slug":"badly-malnourished-dog-found-in-fort-lauderdale-showing-signs-of-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277153\/","title":{"rendered":"Badly malnourished dog found in Fort Lauderdale showing signs of recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/18\/fort-lauderdale-police-opens-animal-abuse-case-after-rescuing-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/18\/fort-lauderdale-police-opens-animal-abuse-case-after-rescuing-dog\/\">French bulldog found badly malnourished in Fort Lauderdale<\/a> is fighting for her life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She\u2019s sleeping, hooked up to pumps, drips and monitors at Veterinary Emergency Group at 1620 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale after initially being cared for by the <a href=\"https:\/\/iheartanimalrescue.pet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/iheartanimalrescue.pet\/\">iHeart Animal Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">iHeart\u2019s Cindy Mucciaccio and Cheryl Marrone named the dog \u201cMiracle\u201d because that was their hope for her health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, she\u2019s improving,\u201d said Dr. Enio Sanmarti. \u201cAll of her values are getting better. We\u2019re pumping a lot of fluids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miracle was found in the bushes outside the Walgreens located along West Broward Boulevard near Interstate 95. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanmarti said after treating her since Saturday, her sodium levels are finally getting back to normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re giving her water with sugar on this pump and then just having the maintenance for her fluids,\u201d he explained <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">iHeart Animal Rescue took on the effort of finding care for the starved dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen emaciated dogs before, but this was by far one of the worst I\u2019ve seen,\u201d said Mucciaccio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanmarti said Miracle has been seizure-free for about 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe wants to eat, but you know poor little girl is a bag of bones,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mucciaccio said she can\u2019t believe someone would do this to an animal, and while she\u2019s so relieved Miracle seems to be getting better, they need more donations so she can keep getting the treatment she needs to recover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanmarti said a typical course of treatment for a malnourished dog takes about seven days, treatment that comes with a hefty price tag. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDonate so we can keep her here longer,\u201d said Mucciaccio. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The French bulldog found badly malnourished in Fort Lauderdale is fighting for her life.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-277153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}