Kansas City, Missouri - This dog, just one year old, had to experience firsthand just how cruel humans can be. During a violent storm, his owner simply abandoned him in a place where rescue seemed almost impossible.

Between rain and strong gusts of wind, the soaked dog waited to be rescued.

It wasn't until the next day, when some employees of the "J. Rieger & Co." distillery went on duty, that the extent of the stormy night became apparent.

The employees spotted the frightened German shepherd mix on a roof, KCTV5 reported.

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The team immediately contacted the local animal shelter, "KC Pet Project."

Neither the employees of the distillery nor the animal rescuers could explain how the pup had gotten onto the roof with his four paws.

Then a surveillance camera finally brought light into the darkness.

The footage shows the dog – who they named Rieger in honor of the distillery – being catapulted onto the tent with a violent swing. The staff suspected that the furry friend had been thrown from a nearby bridge.

"I think I responded the way that most people with a solid conscience do, which is with shock," Susan Stone Li, manager of the distillery, told the news portal.

"We got a ladder, and one of our cocktail preparation team went up with some chicken meat in his hand and sat on the side and kind of coaxed it out a little bit and figured out that it wasn’t going to be aggressive."

Shortly after the sighting of the male dog, he was eventually gently lifted off the roof by three animal rights activists.

"For anybody who’s struggling to keep their pet, reach out to your local shelter... and if you can’t and the shelter can’t help you, there are ways that you can look at self-rehoming," emphasized the head of the rescue center, Kate Meghjii.

"There are organizations like ours that provide food and medical support to try to help keep pets with their families."

The one-year-old pup is now waiting for a new home at the "KC Pet Project."

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Just a few days after his stroke of fate, the four-legged friend had already attracted a number of interested parties.

"Lucy Rieger and her two sons visited the shelter to meet him," reported the rescuers in their Insta post.

"[The dog] is still a little unsure at the shelter, but after everything he's been through, we know he has an incredible future ahead."