Adorable Trash Bag Puppy Takes His First Steps

"There was a man outside the Save-A-Lot selling pit-bull puppies for $50 a pop," said the woman from Sanford, Florida. "This woman approached him and noticed a noise coming from a garbage bag he was holding. She asked him, 'What's in the bag? and he said, 'Don't worry about it.'"

But luckily for Harper the woman pressed the man until he opened the bag and showed her the contents. Inside was a tiny puppy so afflicted by a rigor-mortis-like condition called Swimmer Puppy Syndrome, that she could barely walk.

Shelter workers and vets were left horrified by the poor puppy, concluding she should be put out of her misery.

And while Daniel - who fosters dogs - agreed, she decided to take her home and give her one night of affection before she was euthanized.

"I had to show her what it was like to be loved," she said. "I'd planned on taking her home that night, letting her sleep in bed with us and having her humanely euthanized in the morning."