Rescuers first found the female pit bull with her muzzle bound, beaten, with her legs “hog-tied.” Since then, she spent almost a decade in an animal shelter, though recently, the unfortunate animal’s lot has improved, as she has found the perfect forever home. A good Samaritan named Ernie Moss found the pit bull, now named Tatiana, “nearly frozen to the ground” in January 2011 while out walking his dogs in Michigan. “[T]he larger of the Moss’s two boxers started pulling Ernie toward a wooded ditch,” Capital Area Humane Society (CAHS) explained in a Feb. 18 Facebook post. “Upon following the dog’s lead, Ernie noticed a slight shaking motion underneath a blanket, beneath a fallen tree.” Moss quickly realized it was a dog, somehow still alive. “Tatiana’s body heat had melted the snow beneath, and given the extreme cold weather, the ground had started to refreeze,” CAHS explained, “nearly locking her body …