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Nashville Singer Adopts Pooch With Little Hope Of Forever Home
No one showed interest in special-needs Connor, until country-music star Clare Dunn flew into Riverside County, and now he's a lucky dog!
JURUPA VALLEY, CA – A forlorn canine with little hope of leaving the Western Riverside County Animal Shelter in Jurupa Valley, where no one seemed to want to adopt him, was on his way east Wednesday with a country music singer who said she took the pooch because she didn't want to see him put down.
"This dog just spoke to me," Clare Dunn said Tuesday outside the shelter, where she retrieved Connor. "I was trying to help the dog get rescued in this area, and I couldn't find anyone who was interested in this dog, and it just broke my heart."
According to county Department of Animal Services spokesman John Welsh, the 5-year-old brown-and-white pit bull was on the list of impounded pets designated as "needs rescue," which is often interpreted on social media as destined for euthanasia.
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"No one was showing any interest in him at all," Welsh told City News Service. "He wasn't in grave danger of being euthanized, but that's how some of the networkers viewed it."
Welsh said Connor had been at the shelter for nearly four weeks and was suffering health problems, including skin disorders related to bite wounds, as well as an injured leg that caused the canine to limp a little.
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According to Dunn, she found the dog during an internet search that listed him as a "red alert" pet, making her fear for his fate.
"When I was finally at my wits' end trying to help the dog find a home in the (Riverside) area, I just decided that if no one will, I will, and I booked a flight and got a rental car, and the rest is history," the singer said.
Welsh said that, thanks to Dunn's act of benevolence, "Connor is going to get a great second chance at a long, healthy life."
He said the singer is planning to take Connor to her parents' home in southeastern Colorado.
According to the Grand Ole Opry, Dunn originally hails from Two Buttes, Colorado, near the Oklahoma panhandle, where she grew up on a farm.
She has cut several singles that landed on the country/western chart and has opened for Miranda Lambert, Bob Seger and Keith Urban, according to opry.com.
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--City News Service
