Need help!!!!!!!!

my dad and i when i was little got a maltese plott we wasnt gonna get it but it looked like a grave yard you could count ever rib and its butt bones stuck out like head lites it was scary to look at it. it was out in the middle of a field it had a house but it could not get in it it was so far away and had no feed bowl or water so we bought it to save its life daddy was gonna stomp the guys hindin but the guy who owned the dog wasnt there only his son so daddy was nice. and we fed it jack mackeral grease and stuff it sliked right off in a week and i would worm it to