CAN’T LICK THIS DOG!

AN OLD dog found inside a garbage bag in Brooklyn with his mouth taped shut is ready for some new tricks after being released from an animal hospital.

The 10-to-12-year-old shepherd mix looked as happy as a dog with a bone as he was carried out of the Veterinary Emergency & Referral Group North animal hospital in Gowanus, Brooklyn, on Friday.

“Him leaving the hospital today wasn’t even a thought the night we rescued him,” said Craig Fields, who is taking care of the pooch until a new owner is found.

“It means everything. I honestly thought we were going to take him to the hospital to be euthanized that night.”

The plucky pooch — dubbed St. Vincent — was found in East New York in a trash bag two weeks ago bloodied, bruised and nearly frozen.

A passerby called police — and it turns out one of the responding officers, Griffin Rosen, adopted a dog through the New York Bully Crew animal rescue organization.

Sickened by the sight of the dog, Rosen reached out to Fields, the Long Island-based group’s founder.

“When he got to the scene, there were two other cops there,” Fields recalled.

“Compassionate cops as well. So the three of them together said, ‘Let’s save this dog.’”

Within 30 minutes, the officers delivered the pooch to Bully Crew volunteers. They immediately brought the poor canine to the animal hospital.

Brett Levitzke, a veterinarian with almost 20 years of experience, said he has never seen a dog in worse shape than St. Vincent.

“I’ve been doing only emergency for 17 years and this is, I think by far, one of the most dramatic cases I’ve ever seen,” Levitzke said at a Friday news conference. “It’s disgusting, it really is.” Levitzke described in disturbing detail what likely led to St. Vincent’s shocking condition. The dog was covered in injuries similar to bed sores — a sign of serious, long-term neglect.

“Day in, day out, somebody walked past him, saw him lying in his own urine and ignored him — to the point he developed these horrible sores,” Levitzke said.

The pooch not once growled or snarled at doctors and nurses during the hospital stint, turning him into a paws celebre.

“From the minute he was actually able to raise his head and have a little bit of energy, he’s been nothing but kind,” Levitzke said. “He has that kind, oldsoul look about him,” the doc said.

“He’s just a gentle giant,” he explained. “Sweet as can be, you can see it in his face.”