Given his condition, it looked like Duke couldn't survive. But thanks to a kind woman and the Rudozem Street Dog Rescue, he was saved and even got help for his damaged body.

"It was a real shock when the vet said this was trauma to his feet," Rowles tells The Dodo. "They were obviously broken. His feet were shattered. The ligaments in his feet were nonexistent. Bones were just floating about in his feet."