Pit bull puppy found in trash can gets new home, new life
11:06 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 18, 2007
In June, a four-month-old bruised and injured pit bull puppy was found in a trash can. Now, the puppy has a new home.
When veterinarians first saw "Oscar," he had wounds all over his body, blood in his eye, and a broken leg. They believed the puppy may have been used as bait for dog-fighting.
Today, Oscar has a touch of a limp when he walks, but the trouble almost disappears as he races around on grass.
"They say he may have a limp, but I don't care. He deserves the best home he can have," said Jaime Blair, Oscar's new owner. "Actually, I'm kind of a 'turn-around' case. When I was a child, I had a beagle killed by a pack of pit bulls, and it wasn't the dog. It was the owners."
Blair, along with her fiancé, Chris Taylor, has followed Oscar's story since June, when Portsmouth Animal Control officers pulled his bruised body out of a garbage can.
"I was so mad," said Blair. "I think people that can do that kind of cruelty to something so innocent; it's just a different kind of evil."
At Oscar's new home, he gets two big sisters, including "Shea," a five-year-old pit bull.
"It's gonna be a crowded house," said Taylor. "Crowded bed, too. The dogs we have no, they sleep with us on the bed."
The puppy who was once thrown out like the trash is the new man of his house, king of the heap.
"He's gonna be spoiled," said Taylor. "Chew bones every night. You know, good dog food and everything."
"We don't have kids," added Blair. "We just have dogs, so I expect him to have a really good life."
Tuesday, Oscar went home with his new family to Chesapeake so that good life could begin.
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