My vet thinks he got hit by a car, and that would explain how his tail was so messed up, too,” Megan Bowe says. “That injury happened months ago, because by the time I got him it had already started to heal incorrectly. And with such a damaged pelvis, he wasn’t able to get around very far on his own to look for food so he was extremely skinny and dehydrated.”

Megan isolated King in the garage to prevent the spread of his infectious ailments to the other animals she cared for.

She began King off on a low-calorie diet and built it up slowly so he could regain his strength and weight properly.