ZACHARY HAD COME INTO MIDDLE TENNESEE SHELTIE RESCUE SOME TIME AGO. AFTER TWO OWNERS AND SPENDING MOST OF HIS LIFE IN A CRATE, HE WAS BOUGHT BY A YOUNG COUPLE WHO HAD TWO SMALL CHILDREN, AND ZACH HAD DEVELOPED AN OBSESSIVE CIRCLING BEHAVIOR. HE WAS VERY NOISE SENSITIVE AND HAD NEVER LEARNED TO SOCIALIZE. HE LOST WEIGHT AND THE OWNERS FELT THAT HE NEEDED MORE HELP THAN THEY COULD GIVE HIM. AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS AT RESCUE, HE GAINED TO 14 POUNDS AND WAS DOING WELL IN AN OBEDIENCE CLASS. THE WONDERFUL WOMAN, ANN, WHO RUNS THE RESCUE HAD DONE WONDERS WITH HIM.
HE WAS ADOPTED OUT TO A NEW HOME, AND WITHIN 2 MONTHS, HAD DROPPED TO 9 POUNDS, AND WAS INFESTED WITH SEVERAL KINDS OF PARASITES.
ON SEPT. 30, HE WAS IN THE YARD WITH 4 OTHER DOGS, LARGE ONES, AND HE WAS ATTACKED, SEVERLY MAULED AND ALMOST KILLED. THE WOMAN JUST LET HIM LIE THERE AND SUFFER, DYING, NOT DOING A THING TO GET HIM TO A VET. NOT UNTIL THE NEXT DAY WAS HE DISCOVERED BY ANOTHER RESCUE WORKER, ROBIN.
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