Received this email from Kate at Lackawanna Humane. Balthazar has been found and returned to the shelter. Desparately needs rescue. I've fowarded this to our local rescues....
Mods: Can we move this to Urgent or Non-urgent???
From Lackwanna Humane:
Don't know if you remember the flyer we put out about Balthazar, who was stolen from this shelter on April 12th,2008. A neighbor of the owner had been working to get this dog out of the basement and into a rescue or shelter for over a year. The neighbor was set to transport him to Mid-Atlantic rescue around June '07 when the owner backed out because her boyfriend, who was in jail wanted her to keep the dog. We finally got the girlfriend to sign him over to us on April 9th, 2008 and he was stolen 3 days later.
We never got any leads from the flyer that was posted at all the area vets and throughout the net. As luck would have it, S. Abington Police brought him back to the shelter last week as a stray, dragging a chain attached to a padlocked choker around his neck. It was filthy and quite heavy. The idiot that had the dog did actually try to reclaim him, saying that he acquired the dog when a tenant evicted from his Scranton Apartment left the dog behind and that he had no knowledge that the dog was stolen.
We are desparately seeking a rescue to foster this guy. He has had a really ** Moderator edited for language ** life thus far and he needs someplace besides a cage to recover. He is good with other dogs and was housebroken before being chained out. He barks like an idiot when you approach the cage, but will sit for a chicken treat after you give him a firm verbal reprimand to stop the nonsense. One of the cops wanted to take him back out of the cage a few days later, but Bal backed into the corner and would not let him approach. I can walk up to the cage with a looped leash, tell him to sit and get him out without a problem and he relaxes once you get him out of the chaos of the kennels.
Please crosspost so that we can find a foster home for him. Thanks.
Kate Andrews
Humane Society of Lackawanna County
http://www.hslc.pondpets.com
Kate at
[email protected]
