![]() Melissa, along with an animal behaviorist, put Lefty to the test to determine if he was indeed the aggressive dog the media claimed him to be, and he passed his non-aggressivity tests with flying colors. ![]() A long, highly mediatized battle followed to keep the dog from being put down and, after eight months of living in isolation at animal control, Lefty’s luck changed thanks to Melissa Borden from The Devoted Barn, a rescue and sanctuary in Newport, Michigan, which specializes in working with challenging cases of animal abuse and neglect. Lefty suffered extensive injuries in both attacks.įollowing the first attack, Lefty’s owners did not comply with court orders to build a proper fence around their property, so the mixed breed was seized by animal control following the second attack and ordered to be euthanized. Lefty had been attacked on two separate occasions by other dogs who had crossed through the invisible fencing used by Lefty’s owners to keep him in. When Lefty, a large 9-year-old white dog with black spots, was removed from his family, he ended up on the news and at animal control. Subscribe to Dogster and get the bimonthly magazine delivered to your home. Editor’s note: Have you seen the new Dogster print magazine in stores? Or in the waiting room of your vet’s office? This article appeared in our February/March issue.
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