After ‘14 wreck, shepherd ready to compete in show

Exactly what happened to the dog on that New Jersey highway, no one really knows.

This much is true: Fanucci the young German shepherd was so shattered, so bloodied after jumping out of a brokendown van hooked to a speeding tow truck, his life was in jeopardy.

“You see the dog, you see the pain.

You don’t want him to suffer,” co-owner Stephanie Schrock said. “For half an hour, we thought about whether we needed to euthanize him, trying to come up with the right decision.”

Come Monday morning, his road will be a lot smoother — he’ll step onto the carpeted ring at the Westminster Kennel Club, showing not a scratch from his 2014 wreck.

There are 2,882 entries at America’s most prestigious dog competition.