Puppy shot in the head expected to be okay [Video]

“So many people had given up, and said to euthanize her, but she didn’t give up,” said Brittany Esparza.

SAN ANTONIO — This week marks Animal Cruelty Awareness Week, and in an effort to raise awareness about animal cruelty happening locally, here is a story of ‘Hope.’

Hope is a six week old puppy on the road to a miraculous recovery.

“When I first picked her up, she had blood gushing down her face. She was limp,” said Brittany Esparza, Hope’s medical foster at the Bee Pawsitive Husky Rescue.

Esparza says she was called to pick up Hope and was told she was attacked by another dog, but Esparza says she was skeptical that’s what actually happened.

“It was very clear it wasn’t a bite wound. There was a gunshot wound to the head,” said Esparza.

Veterinarian Dr. Brady Hanson, says Hope was hours away from death.

“She had head …