Peanut Butter was the dog no one wanted.
The gray and white pit bull was found chained to a tree on the side of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Christmas Eve, wearing only a small blue blanket to protect him from the 38-degree cold. is gaining followers on social media. And gifts were piled up at the front door of her adoptive mother’s house.
“There’s something about peanut butter,” said Heather Guas, who once nursed starved and neglected puppies back to health. “She just brought out so much love from people. . . . It belongs to this community. When you open the front door, there’s something for her.”
Peanutbutter was emaciated and weighed 44 pounds when a Good Samaritan found her along a busy highway and stopped to call the police.
She was taken to the Brooklyn Animal Shelter, where volunteers from the Brooklyn borough of Bled posted footage of her plight. It has been viewed approximately 37,000 times.
Among the readers was Guas, a teacher and mother of three from central New Jersey who has fostered 60 dogs and 30 cats over the years.
“I must have watched that video 30 times,” she recalled.
In collaboration with Sarina McLaughlin and her group Animal rescue efforts such as Pibblesor PMARGauss agreed to retrieve Peanut Butter from the shelter and care for him until he could find a permanent home.
“She weighed too little. She was too sick to be neutered,” recalled Guas, who spent sleepless nights lying on the floor next to the adorable floppy-eared dog while she adjusted to her new surroundings. Ta.
“PMAR Agreed to let me foster peanut butter when they shouldn’t have said yes. They didn’t even hesitate,” she wrote on Facebook in January. “I believe in her heart that she is recovering so quickly because of all her love flowing through her.”
Peanut Butter, who currently weighs 66 pounds, is believed to be between 3 and 4 years old.
She has learned to walk on a leash and is amazed at small things like spring flowers, Guas said.
“The day she met Daffodil, I was furious,” she told the Post. “She snuck up on them. As she slowly bent over and sniffed her scent, I thought, ‘You don’t know flowers, do you?'”
Guasu’s social media posts feature Peanut Butter frolicking in the snow and being fascinated by a passing Saint Bernard. A stranger approached her on the street Ask about peanut butter progress.
She posted this week:Rescue is struggling. Donations are small. But so many people care about this little (original) blue pit bull. . . . She has her own village and is helping people behind her. ”
Peanut Butter’s success comes at a time when the city’s animal shelters are nearing capacity and there is a shortage of foster homes.
Guas said Peanutbutter is still looking for a home.
“She is healing right before my eyes,” she thought. “She’s growing by leaps and bounds. What can she do next?”
