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Urgent: Can you help a dog named Trojan in San Pedro?

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By Donna Littlejohn on October 16, 2011 6:15 PM | | Comments (0) |
Valerie Smith-Griffin, a San Pedro journalist, has been posting on Facebook about a stray dog she found who now awaits adoption at the Harbor Animal Care Center in San Pedro. 

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The situation is serious, however, as shelter workers told her today that due to overcrowding they cannot promise to house him much longer.

She spotted him initially out at the former Navy housing site on Western Avenue where she left food for him, hoping to instill enough trust in her that he'd come closer. 

Ultimately, animal control officers took him in and he's been at the shelter now for several days. Valerie's note and update from Saturday: 

I saw him again today at the shelter. he took cheese from me and gave my hand a "kiss" when I told him good-bye. He seemed more relaxed today - still on the frightened side. His Harbor Shelter # is A1256250.

He'd been running in the Ponte Vista field and with the goats and llamas - only seeing the goat keeper - I'd been feeding him for a few weeks after I spotted him but because of the trespass laws and high fencing, was unable to try to trap him myself. the goat keeper finally did so and called the shelter to get him. When he was in the field - and it is speculated he was a dump-off - no ID, no microchip - he lived in filth, dirty old appliances, old food containers, etc. The vet tech has told me he has no health issues that would prevent adoption and his "official" adoption day was the 14th (yesterday) I'm invested emotionally in him which is probbaly never a good idea but I feel I can't give up on him.

She is willing to donate financially to the dog's care to a rescue group or individual who can bail him out. But the supervisor at the shelter needs to be contacted asap as the dog's time essentially is "up." 

Contact me -- or you can send Valerie a message via Facebook or email her at electrala@cox.net. 



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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.

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