meet STEVE:
winning a better life with HELP from rpaw
Steve was picked up about a month ago from a park where he was abandoned. When the police officers found him, he was skin and bones, and ripped to pieces. He was used as a bait dog. If you are unfamiliar with this term, it is when people use dogs as "bait" to train fight dogs. These dogs don't/can't fight back. You can still see the marks on his muzzle where his mouth was duct-taped shut so he couldn't defend himself. He was more than likely tied up somewhere and left for dead. The officers brought him straight to the vet clinic and he has spent the last 4 weeks hooked up to fluids and medications for the pain and infections he had before RPAW could rescue him. You would think after everything he has been through, he would hate people or at least hate other dogs... not at all! He loves every person he meets and has not met a dog he doesn't want to be friends with! He just wants to play, play, play. He has not figured out what cats are yet but does listen well when you tell him no. This 1 1/2-year-old boy needs a little work on some manners, but is coming along well. Everyone who meets him falls in love. If he did not have all the scars to show for what he has been through, no one would believe us when we say he was used for bait.
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