‘Peanut Butter’ left on NYC freeway, now a social media star

Metro

By Kathianne Boniello

Published
March 16, 2024, 1:16 pm ET

Peanut Butter was a canine no person appeared to need.

Found chained by the neck to a tree on the facet of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Christmas Eve, with nothing greater than a tiny blue blanket to chase away the 38-degree chill, the grey and white pit bull now has a social media following and presents piling up at her foster mother’s door.

“There’s something about Peanut Butter,” stated Heather Guas, who has been nursing the once-starving, uncared for pup again to well being. “She has just elicited such love from people. . . . It’s become this community thing. I open the front door and there’s stuff for her.”

Peanut Butter was an emaciated 44 kilos when a Good Samaritan noticed her alongside the busy freeway and stopped to name police.

She was dropped at the Brooklyn Animal Care Center the place volunteers at Borough Bred in Brooklyn posted footage of her plight, notching nearly 37,000 views.

Among the readers was Guas, a instructor and mother of three in central NJ who has fostered 60 dogs and 30 cats over the years.

“I must have watched that video 30 times,” she recalled.

With assist from Saleena McLaughlin and her group Pibbles and More Animal Rescueor PMARGaus retrieved Peanut Butter from the shelter and agreed to take care of her till a everlasting home is discovered.

“She was too underweight. She was too sick to be spayed,” recalled Guas, who spent sleepless nights laying on the ground subsequent to the adorably floppy eared canine whereas she adjusted to her new environment.

“PMAR agreed to let me foster Peanut Butter at a time when they should not have said yes. They didn’t even hesitate,” she wrote on Facebook in January. “I truly believe she is healing so quickly because of all the love flowing her way.”

Now 66 kilos, Peanut Butter is believed to be 3-4 years old.

She’s studying to walk on a leash and marveling on the little issues — like spring flowers, Guas stated.

“The day she met the daffodils cracked me up,” she instructed The Post. “She snuck up on them. She ever so slowly leaned into sniff it and I was like, ‘You don’t know flowers.’”

Guas’ social media posts — about Peanut Butter frolicking within the snow or being mesmerized by a passing Saint Bernard — have prompted strangers to approach her on the street to ask about Peanut Butter’s progress.

She posted this week: “Rescues are struggling. Donations are low. But so many people care about this little (well she used to be) blue pit bull. . . . She has her own village and it’s helping the people behind her.”

Peanut Butter’s success comes as metropolis animal shelters are close to capability, and foster houses are scarce.

Guas stated Peanut Butter remains to be on the lookout for her furever home.

“She’s healing right in front of me,” she mused. “She’s growing in leaps and bounds. What can she do next?”