MEXICO CITY, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Running around on his brand-new prosthetic legs, a Mexican puppy when tortured by criminal groups is now living the dog dream, loved by his embraced caretakers and even a finalist for the title of America’s preferred animal.
Rescued as a one-year-old with his front limbs damaged, Pay de Limon (Lemon Pie) discovered much-needed love at the Milagros Caninos sanctuary, a shelter south of Mexico City, which says he is growing 12 years later on.
“He is a survivor of human ruthlessness and arranged criminal activity groups,” Patricia Ruiz, creator of Milagros Caninos, informed Reuters. “He does not hold an animosity versus anybody. Humans hold animosities. Dogs do not.”
Found abandoned in a dumpster in Mexico’s main Zacatecas state, a hotbed for cartels and arranged criminal activity, Lemon Pie was later on carried to the safety of the shelter in the capital.
Now, he is prepared to conjecture in the online contest for Americans’ most dashing dog, albeit a non-native candidate. The contest, America’s Favorite Pet, is open to family pets on the American continent and runs as part of a charity fundraising event.
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The contest’s winner, to be revealed in March, will secure a $5,000 prize money and get the possibility to design in a two-page spread in Dogster publication.
Ruiz says the dog’s journey teaches “everyone to state ‘yes you can’, to state ‘yes to life’, in spite of whatever. No matter what occurs to you.”
Reporting by Alberto Fajardo, Writing by Isabel Woodford and Raúl Cortés Fernández, Editing by Ana Isabel Martinez and Sandra Maler
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