Dog that spent 5 years at shelter finds home

MENTOR, Ohio — A canine that has spent the past 5 years astatine the Lake Humane Society has recovered a new, loving home.

Spike, a 9-year-old pit bull mix, had spent fractional of his beingness successful a kennel.

He was surrendered successful 2016 aft his family's location burned down. The traumatic acquisition made Spike tense successful the structure and helium was overlooked by those looking for a caller pet.

With the assistance of the shelter, Spike began coming retired of his shell. The structure made it their ngo to find Spike a location to unrecorded retired his aureate years in, honoring the precocious Betty White, a longtime carnal advocate, arsenic portion of the "Betty White Challenge."

On Monday, which would person been White's 100th birthday, the efforts paid disconnected and a foster-to-adopt concern was found.

Spike and his caller proprietor deed it disconnected close away, the structure said. He'll caput to his caller location aft having dental country connected Jan. 20.

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