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Reggie at MCACC. Photo by Carla Walters
Reggie wasn't exactly the best looking dog at the shelter. Things were bleak for him. He seemed to have a skin condition, or was it? It was difficult to tell. But there was still a bigger question. What was he? He had no hair except for that little blonde mohawk on top of his head and, quite honestly, his skin looked like the imaginary depictions of the Chupacabra. Was he a Pug, was he a Chinese Crested, a Mexican Hairless, or some monstrous cross between these breeds? Was it mange that made him look this way? Who would want him?
Looks aside, an opportunity with Reggie there outside his cage at the county shelter proved there was nothing at all monstrous about him. He enjoyed a good scratch just as much as the dog housed next to him. He too wanted some interaction with humans and other dogs. And, more than anything, he wanted a forever home that almost didn't come true if it weren't for Sandra, who saw his photo amongst the hundreds posted every week of dogs at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, in Phoenix, and decided to intervene in what was certainly going to be a doomed future.
Reggie was scheduled to be euthanized. If no one was going to claim him by 5:30 p.m. that day, he would be destroyed the next morning for what was noted on the intake records as: severe skin condition-allergies-solar dermatitis & pyoderma. Pyo- what? Whatever it was, was it really deserving of a death sentence? It wasn't, and it wouldn't happen, not if Sandra could help it.
Thanks to Sandra, who works with a Pug rescue in the valley, Reggie found the forever home he was dreaming of as he whiled away his diminishing hours there at the shelter. He was pulled from the dreaded e-list just in time and put into the care of the rescue who fulfilled his wildest dog dreams...a loving home and family to call his own!
Dare to work miracles...Foster - Rescue - Adopt!
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