A dog who had his two front legs amputated doesn't let it hold him back and happily hops around "like a kangaroo".
Labrador mix Luke was a stray when he was hit by a car in Afghanistan and taken to a vets where his legs were amputated.
The stranger who had rushed the pooch to the vets was shocked when they saw the state of his open wounds and took him to rescue centre Good World Animal Rescue and Protection (GWARP).
There he had five operations to stop the infection and he was nursed back to health.
Irina Selick, 30, came across Luke's story on Instagram and couldn't help but fall in love.
Labrador mix Luke was a stray when he was hit by a car in Afghanistan and taken to a vets where his legs were amputated.
The stranger who had rushed the pooch to the vets was shocked when they saw the state of his open wounds and took him to rescue centre Good World Animal Rescue and Protection (GWARP).
There he had five operations to stop the infection and he was nursed back to health.
Irina Selick, 30, came across Luke's story on Instagram and couldn't help but fall in love.
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01:30I adopted Luke through an organization called GWARP. They take in dogs in Azerbaijan, which
01:41is near Turkey if you don't know where it is, and unfortunately there they do not have
01:48like any animal rights laws, so these dogs that they take in are really horrifically
01:55mutilated most of them. They found Luke in August. He was probably like six months old
02:01and he got hit by a car. Here he is! Hi buddy! Someone did the right thing taking him into
02:09a vet. Unfortunately, it was not a good vet. He broke his two front legs and the vet, for
02:18whatever reason, decided to amputate one of the legs instead of just putting a cast on
02:24them, so then an infection spread to the other leg and the vet amputated the other
02:32leg for whatever reason, and when the person went to go get Luke again, they were really
02:41just shocked, so they brought Luke to GWARP, which is the shelter where I adopted Luke
02:48from, and they took care of him, so I'm gonna show some pictures now of what he looked like.
02:57It was really, really bad, obviously. Really depressed looking. He was really emaciated.
03:04Not eating, not drinking. He was really shut down. I remember when I first saw him, I just
03:10started bawling my eyes out and there was just something so precious about his eyes
03:15and how genuine they were, and I said to myself, if he ever became available for adoption,
03:21I would want to adopt him, so they took care of him. They fixed up his amputation, because
03:28he still had a bit of a nub on the one side, so they had to clean that up, and then unfortunately
03:34what happened was they found that he had a hole in his chest from the infections, so
03:41they then needed to perform another surgery to close the hole, so he was in this incubator,
03:50oxygen chamber thing for a while, and then he got better and healthier after that, so
03:59there's a couple more photos I'm gonna show, but then he became available for adoption,
04:06so he's now here. He's super happy. He's like the happiest dog ever, and it's just
04:12so inspiring seeing him, because he doesn't realize and he doesn't know that there's something
04:20wrong with him or different, and he doesn't feel sorry for himself. He does everything
04:26like a normal dog. I can show videos of him walking on his hind legs. It's absolutely
04:31adorable, but he is literally the happiest dog ever despite everything, and it just shows
04:38I think all of us, no matter what you've been through, you can still be happy and have an
04:43amazing life, and he's just, he's the most precious thing ever.