INSIDE EDITION about this puppy saved in Utah that may have been thrown over the canyon. In any way he was left there alone to die!! It's one of the most heartbreaking videos you'll ever see.
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A puppy was found by an explorer in a canyon deep beneath the earth's surface, all skin and bones, trapped in the rocky tomb.
"I saw him and my heart just sank," Zak Anderegg told INSIDE EDITION.
Now the haunting question is did someone throw him into the canyon? Did they deliberately abandon him?
The dramatic story starts when climber Zak Anderegg is on a solo vacation, exploring canyons in Arizona. He was shooting video to show his wife later. Sometimes the terrain was so striking, it looks like another planet.
"Somewhere down there is, hopefully, the bottom," Zak recorded.
Zak can't believe his eyes when 350 feet down one canyon he discovered the emaciated puppy.
"He was so weak his head came up, he opened his mouth, he tried to make a sound, and he collapsed," Zak told INSIDE EDITION.
Still stunned at his find, Zak gave the puppy food and water on some paper plates he's brought along.
"There's no way I'm just gonna let him die without at least trying to help him," Zak said.
But Zak didn't have the equipment necessary to rescue the animal, so he reluctantly left the puppy for the time being and climbed out of the canyon to get more gear.
"This is where the dog is. You can't even see the bottom. I don't believe he got there on his own, the more and more I think about this, someone put this dog there," Zak said to his video
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HE STATED HE CANNOT TAKE HIM, HE NEEDS A HOME Y'ALL!! WISH I COULD, BUT MY HUSBAND WON'T LET ME!!
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THERE'S A FACEBOOK PAGE FOR HIM
UPDATE: NBC -- A puppy rescued from the bowels of a deep Utah canyon is now recovering in Salt Lake City.
The man who rescued him documented much of the incredible story with his own video camera.
They don't know his real name, so they just call him Puppy.
He's now a temporary shop-dog at The Wrench-It Center, owned by Zak & Michelle Anderegg.
"He was completely starved," Zak Anderegg said. "He was, my best guess, 24 to 48 hours from being dead."
That was last week in a slot canyon near the Utah-Arizona border.
It's so deep and narrow and twisted, some sections are dark in the middle of the day.
Zak was rappelling when he He suddenly saw a dog, starving and dehydrated.
"I cannot believe I found this guy down in this frickin' pothole in this canyon," he said.
He climbed out to get water.
On the way back down he wondered how the puppy got there.
"The rim of the canyon is 350 feet above us, so falling from the rim would have killed him," Zak said. "Every single time I work it through my head, I come up with the same answer: someone put him there" -- left, abandoned.
He climbed out again and drove to Page, Arizona to recruit a rescue team.
"They told me flat-out, 'We're certainly not going to send out the fire department or the sheriff's department to help you.' So I said, 'All right, I'll manage on my own.'"
The next morning he was back with a cat carrier and a plan, using ropes in a one-man rescue operation.
"I took risks," Zak said, "but none above what I do anyway."
He rigged up a system to attach the cat carrier to his ropes and stabilize it.
Then he climbed back out.
The Page Animal Hospital saved Puppy's life.
Most of the costs were covered by the hospital's Angel Fund.
"The rate of improvement is just incredible," Zak said. "I'd say within two weeks he'll be at his weight."
Michelle and Zak still haven't decided whether to keep him, since they're already a pet-heavy family.
They're welcoming inquiries from qualified people who can give him a good home, and they're encouraging contributions to the Angel Fund for future emergencies.
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