Owner shoots dozens of air-rifle pellets to dogs head leaving him with life

A pet dog has defied all odds after surviving horrific abuse leaving his head riddled with air-rifle pellets.

The battered mixed-breed Keks (meaning cookie in English) was surrendered to an animal shelter in Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, where staff noticed something was terribly wrong.

‘We quickly realised that something was not right. An X-ray revealed Keks had been shot multiple times,” shelter deputy head Maria Göpfert told German news outlet Bild .

X-rays revealed dozens of projectiles from an air-rifle lodged throughout his skull.

“When we saw the X-rays, we couldn’t believe it,” Göpfert said.

“There were 42 Diabolos in his head.”

Diabolo airgun pellets get their name from the Latin word diabolus, meaning ‘devil’.

They are usually used for target practice, pest control, or sma