Puppy Crushed by Compactor Survives

A puppy is lucky to be alive after somehow making its way into a cardboard compactor. It started as a routine day at Smurfit-Stone recycling company in Evansville, Indiana last week. Tons of cardboard were coming in by the hour.

"We find all kinds of things we never expect to see, toilets and things like that," said equipment operator Dan Vallier.

When Vallier started clearing out a load of crushed cardboard brought in and dumped of a roll-off truck, he couldn't believe what he saw.

"In between some cardboard I saw her head poking out," he said.

"We didn't know whether to call her lucky or roll-off. She's pretty lucky," said plant manager Kevin Hines.

The lab-pit bull mix puppy is around six months old was mixed in the middle of discarded cardboard.

"There are a lot of things to do with an animal other than throw them away. It pretty much meant to be the end of her, wasn't it?," said Hines.

The dog was dumped out a truck here that has a ramming device that literally crushes the cardboard with 35,000 pounds of pressure.

They say there were more than 6,000 pounds of cardboard in this truck and she was right in the middle.

"To be in the middle she had to be cycled a number of times," Hines said.

The truck that brought her in made five stops at cardboard trash bins in Chandler, Boonville, Henderson, Newburgh and Evansville before making its way back to Smurfit-Stone.

"All she has is a bruised foot, and the fleas survived too," said Hines.

The workers here can't keep the pup as a mascot.

They already have a cat who has adopted them.

"I don't think she's aware that he's in here. She won't like it," said one office worker.

They do plan to make sure this discarded dog finds the happiness she deserves.

"For someone to give a dog certain death, that's just poor. We thought if she made it through this, she deserves a good home," said Hines.

Kevin Hines says his first order of business is a good bath and some flea medicine for the dog.

Once she's comfortable, he'll concentrate on finding her a good home.