A healthy dog that was given a 'lethal injection' and buried by cruel owners somehow managed to dig himself out of his forest grave - and walked to a roadside to invite help.
Kiryusha, a seven-year-old German shepherd was spotted by kindly motorist Olga Lystseva, 39, on a highway in northern Russia.
She passed him walking slowly within the rain along the road, wet and exhausted but the sight of the bedraggled animal haunted her.
The dog-lover then turned her car around and drove back nine miles to urge him.
After finding some food for him she put him on the rear seat of her car.
Kiryusha slept all the thanks to Ukhta, a distance of 93 miles, where she handed him to a dog rescue service called Kind City.
They began publicising pictures of the animal and received messages that he came from the settlement of Yemva.
The owners were found and that they said that they had 'put down' the dog claiming he was 'unhealthy'.
They admitted injecting him with a drug intended to kill him then buried him at a foreign spot on the brink of the Ukhta-Syktyvkar highway.
His paw was still shaved where that they had injected him with what they intended as a dose .
They 'apologised' for his or her 'mistake' in burying the dog alive, said the animal shelter.
But tests by a vet found the animal had no serious medical problems and was healthy aside from suffering rom hunger and exposure.
Ekaterina Nimak, from the rescue service, said: 'Thanks to Olga, Kiryusha has begun a replacement life.
'In the shelter, he's very calm.
'He walks on a leash, doesn't rush anywhere, rarely conflicts with other dogs and doesn't bark.
'He is good-natured with people.'
A new report from an area television station says Kiryusha is now fostered by an area family during a loving home.
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