Pet Personals — Single blond male looking for new home

Although there are many pet rescue groups in the Tri-state region, and plenty of publications and Web sites devoted to profiling pets in need of homes, every once in a while an animal in need of a home falls through the cracks. The Lakeville Journal has begun Pet Personals, an occasional feature that will showcase animals that need to be placed by animal control officers.

Autumn is historically a time when animals are abandoned in larger numbers than normal. Some summer residents decide they can’t handle a pet full-time in the city. Some hikers and hunters lose a dog in the woods. The Journal hopes that all animal owners will treat their pets in a humane and responsible manner  and be sure to get identification tags for the animal’s collar.

Every area town has an animal control officer; to find the phone number of your town’s officer, go to the town’s Web site or look in the Connecticut phone book’s blue pages under your town’s name. Residents and visitors alike are reminded that if they lose a dog, the animal control officer should be notified right away. Exercise caution while approaching lost animals; even a docile domestic pet might experience a personality change after a few days or even weeks in the wild.

This week’s featured dog is free to a good home. Marsha Hassig, Sharon’s animal control officer, said that when this young male was found, he had been on his own so long that the halter he was wearing was embedded into his coat.

He has been at the Sharon dog pound for more than a month. If she cannot find a home for him soon, he may have to be put down. She has already kept him over the official time limit.

This is what he might say if he could speak  to humans:

Athletic, energetic mystery man

seeks permanent loving home

with room to run and play

I’m sure there will be boundaries I must respect, but I don’t want to be cooped up all day. I’m a lab mix, a beautiful yellow-blond, very sleek and trim. My new family must be experienced in canine ways as I am not trained, but would really like to please, so I’ll try very hard. I’d be happy to go to obedience school with you.

Though I’m sure I would adore kids, I’d probably knock them over in my joy to see them, so it would be best if I hung out with older children, say, over 10 years old. How do I get along with cats and other dogs? My human handlers don’t know, and I can’t tell them — so I need an owner who is savvy and flexible — or for whom I will be their one and only! I’m probably somewhere between two and four years old, so I should have a long and happy life ahead of me. Can you help?

Contact Hassig at 860-364-0504. The dog has had its rabies shots but needs a checkup with a veterinarian. There is no fee to adopt this dog, but a donation of $45 to the state’s pet adoption fund is encouraged.

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