07/17/2026
Meet Thumper, formerly known as Chomper.
In 2023, Thumper entered Grand Prairie Animal Services as a stray weighing a healthy 59 pounds. He was reclaimed by his owner, and everyone hoped that would be the happy ending he deserved.
Instead, in May 2026, Grand Prairie Animal Services received a welfare check that changed his life forever.
When officers removed Thumper from the property, he weighed just 43 pounds. He was found chained in the backyard with no food in sight, an empty water bowl, and covered in flies. The chain around his neck weighed 18.6 poundsβnearly half of his body weight. Day after day, he carried that burden alone.
Despite everything he has endured, Thumper has never stopped trusting people.
Shortly after returning to Grand Prairie Animal Services, Thumper underwent emergency surgery for a bowel obstruction and then began the long road to recovery. He is heartworm positive, but remarkably, that appears to be his only remaining medical challenge.
Today, Thumper is thriving in a temporary foster home. He is learning what it means to be safe, to rest comfortably, and to finally be loved.
This sweet boy has survived neglect, starvation, a heavy chain around his neck, and emergency surgery, yet he still greets the world with hope. He deserves so much more than a kennel. He deserves a rescue willing to give him the second chance he has waited years for.
Grand Prairie Animal Services is urgently seeking a rescue partner for Thumper. Please share his story far and wide. Somewhere out there is a rescue that will look at these photos and see not what happened to him, but the incredible dog he still is.
Thumper survived.
Now, he just needs someone to help him live the life he has always deserved.
