Dog Allegedly Abandoned at Shelter After Owners Decid He Was 'Gay'

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• FEZ, DOG DCHED AT SHELTER BEE OWNERS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY, GOT ADOPTED
• DOG ALLEGEDLY ABANDONED AT SHELTER AFTER OWNERS DECID HE WAS 'GAY'
• ABANDONED ‘GAY AS HELL’ DOG FDS HOME WH GAY NORTH CAROLA UPLE
• SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHLIVGDOG ADOPTED AFTER BEG LLED 'GAY,' ABANDONED AT SHELTER3:04WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTG BYYI-J YUMARCH 31, 2022, 4:08 AM•6 M READA NORTH CAROLA MAN WASN'T PLANNG TO ADOPT A DOG LAST WEEK BUT ONE NE'S STORY STOOD OUT TO STEVE NICHOLS AND HIS PARTNER, JOHN WN. ACRDG TO NICHOLS, THEIR CISN WAS CLOSE TO AN "IMMEDIATE" ONE.NICHOLS, 61, AND WN, 58, HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 33 YEARS AND FIRST LEARNED ABOUT A DOG WHO WAS ABANDONED FOR SHOWG SO-LLED "GAY" BEHAVR OM A LOL NEWS REPORT.EDOR’S PICKSMARVELO DOGS PERFORM ACROSS THE NATN, PROMOTG ADOPTN FEB 15, 2022DOG RCUE ANIZATNS NEED OF FOSTER HOM AS 'QUARANTE SH' OF ADOPTNS SLOWSOCT 26, 2021WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTG DOGSAUG 26, 2020"WE SAW THE STORY ABOUT THE OWNER WHO TURNED THE DOG TO THE SHELTER BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY," NICHOLS TOLD "GOOD MORNG AMERI." "THE DOG HAD HUMPED ANOTHER MALE DOG AND HE NTACTED THE SHELTER AND SAID IF YOU DON'T RCUE THIS DOG, I'M GOG TO KILL HIM. SO THE FOLKS THE SHELTER WERE GREAT AND FOUND A PLACE FOR HIM IMMEDIATELY."THE DOG WAS TAKEN TO STANLY COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SERVIC, A SHELTER THAT WORKS WH GREATER CHARLOTTE SPCA. HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME FEZ."MY PARTNER AND I STARTED TALKG ABOUT . THE NVERSATN WENT SORT OF LIKE THIS, 'YOU KNOW, 33 YEARS, WE'VE HAD TO FACE THE SAME IGNORANCE, BIGOTRY AND STUPIDY OM PEOPLE AND WE WEREN'T ALWAYS ABLE TO DO SOMETHG ABOUT .' BUT WE THOUGHT, 'WE N DO SOMETHG ABOUT THIS,'" NICHOLS TOLD "GMA.""SO WE STARTED OUT AN EFFORT TO JT DO SOMETHG TO HELP, DONATE SOME MONEY OR SOMETHG LIKE THAT. OVER A PERD OF TWO DAYS, SORT OF MORPHED TO, 'WELL, HE'S GOG TO BE A PART OF OUR FAY,' AND WE JT END UP ADOPTG HIM."NICHOLS SCRIB OSR AS A "LAID-BACK, SWEET DOG."COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLSTHE UPLE, WHO LIVE INDIAN TRAIL, NORTH CAROLA, A SUBURB SOUTHEAST OF CHARLOTTE, ADOPTED THE DOG ON MARCH 22. TODAY, NICHOLS SAID THE BLACK AND BROWN DOG, WHO THEY RENAMED OSR, IS A "LOVABLE MUTT."OSR HAS SCE BEEN NTERED AND RECEIVED ABDOMAL SURGERY TO REMOVE A TTICLE NEAR HIS KIDNEY THAT NEVER SCEND NORMALLY. HE IS EXPECTED TO START HEARTWORM TREATMENT NEXT WEEK.HIS VETERARIAN, DR. WILLIAM PRSLY, THE OWNER OF PRSLY ANIMAL HOSPAL MATTHEWS, NORTH CAROLA, SAID OSR, WHO HE SURMIS IS A MIXED BREED -- POSSIBLY OF GERMAN SHEPHERD-HKY MIX -- AND BETWEEN 4 1/2 AND 5 YEARS OLD, HAS A LONG HEALTH JOURNEY AHEAD BUT HE'S OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE DOG'S FUTURE.OSR WAS ADOPTED ON MARCH 22.COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLS"OSR IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE SWEETT DOGS. HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY DOMANCE ISSU WHILE HE WAS HERE WH ANY OF THE DOGS THAT WE TRODUCED HIM TO," PRSLY TOLD "GMA."AS FOR A DOG'S SO-LLED "GAY" BEHAVR, PRSLY, WHO HAS BEEN PRACTICG FOR 25 YEARS, EXPLAED THAT 'S NOT AN ACCURATE SCRIPTN. "THERE IS NO SEXUAL ORIENTATN NE, FELE ANIMAL BEHAVR. IT'S JT NOT THERE," THE VET SAID."ONE WAY [DOGS] N EXERT THEIR DOMANCE IS BY HUMPG, THE OTHER IS BY NIPPG OR OTHER LTLE THGS THAT THEY DO," PRSLY SAID. "SOME DOGS HUMP, SOME DON'T. IT JT PENDS ON HOW THEY WANT TO EXERT THEIR DOMANCE OVER ANOTHER NE."NICHOLS SAID OSR WAS "VERY TIMID" AT FIRST BUT IS SLOWLY GETTG FORTABLE HIS NEW HOME.OSR RECENTLY HAD SURGERY AND WILL RECEIVE HEARTWORM TREATMENT NEXT WEEK.COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLS"HE'S BEGNG TO E OUT OF THAT SHELL. THE FIRST DAY WE HAD HIM, WE WERE BOTH OVERJOYED WHEN HE FIRST WAGGED HIS TAIL. AND THEN OVER THE WEEKEND, HE KD OF SED AT ME A UPLE OF TIM, WHICH MA ME REALLY HAPPY. SO I THK HE'S JT BEG A PART OF THE FAY AND HIS PERSONALY IS EMERGG EVERY DAY," NICHOLS SAID."HE'S JT SUCH A LAID-BACK SWEET DOG, OBEYS MANDS. DON'T GET MORE THAN TWO OR THREE FEET AWAY OM EHER ONE OF ," HE ADD.MORE: JOHN TRAVOLTA REVEALS SON BEN ADOPTED PUPPY JAMIE LEE CURTIS HELD AT THE OSRSOSR WAS NAMED AFTER THE GAY PLAYWRIGHT AND POET OSR WIL, NICHOLS SAID."HE IS A LEGENDARY THOR. HE WROTE 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG EARNT.' AND HE WAS ALSO VERY OUT, WHICH WAS A BIG AL HIS DAY, A MUCH BIGGER AL THAN IS TODAY," NICHOLS EXPLAED. "SO WE NAMED HIM OSR. WE ALWAYS GIVE OUR DOGS HUMAN NAM."NICHOLS AND WN ARE ALSO PROUD PARENTS TO HARRY, WHO WAS ADOPTED OM THE LOL SPCA.OSR ALSO HAS A NEW FURRY SIBLG, HARRY, A TERRIER-CHIHUAHUA MIX WHO WAS ALSO ADOPTED.COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLS"HARRY IS FE AS LONG AS OSR DON'T TAKE HIS SPACE ON THE BED AT NIGHT AND STEAL HIS OKI," NICHOLS SAID.NICHOLS SAID HE AND HIS PARTNER HOPE OSR'S STORY WILL SPIRE OTHERS TO ADOPT AND STRS THAT THERE WERE MANY VOLVED OSR'S SUCCS STORY."WE FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT PEOPLE THIS UNTRY FOR THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS ARE REALLY CRAVG STORI WH HERO AND HAPPY ENDGS. AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE STORI, BUT WE ARE NOT THE HERO," NICHOLS SAID. "THE HERO ARE THE SHELTER WORKERS, THE VETERARIAN'S OFFICE, THE PEOPLE OF THE SPCA, WHO AL WH THIS EVERY DAY."AND SO MY MSAGE WOULD BE PLEASE ADOPT, DON'T SHOP. ADOPT FIRST BEE THERE ARE PLENTY OF ANIMALS THAT NEED A LOVG HOME. AND IF YOU N'T ADOPT, SUPPORT THEM FANCIALLY, THEY SPERATELY NEED THE MONEY."EDOR’S PICKSMARVELO DOGS PERFORM ACROSS THE NATN, PROMOTG ADOPTN FEB 15, 2022DOG RCUE ANIZATNS NEED OF FOSTER HOM AS 'QUARANTE SH' OF ADOPTNS SLOWSOCT 26, 2021WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTG DOGSAUG 26, 2020UP NEXT LIVG—HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023HOW TO GET $4 MOVIE TICKETS FOR NATNAL CEMA DAYAUGT 24, 2023GROOM GETS NEW PASSPORT TIME FOR WEDDG AFTER DOG ATE AUGT 24, 2023UP NEXT LIVG—HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023HOW TO GET $4 MOVIE TICKETS FOR NATNAL CEMA DAYAUGT 24, 2023GROOM GETS NEW PASSPORT TIME FOR WEDDG AFTER DOG ATE AUGT 24, 2023

FEZ, DOG DCHED AT SHELTER BEE OWNERS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY, GOT ADOPTED

Fez has a new home and North Carola dog — who was dumped at a shelter by his owners bee he humped another male dog and the owners feared he was gay — has been adopted.

DOG ALLEGEDLY ABANDONED AT SHELTER AFTER OWNERS DECID HE WAS 'GAY'

The uple said they renamed Fez “Osr” after the Irish poet and playwright Osr Wil — who was gay. He was a gay dog, who didn't re what he spent. -This sentence a metaphor the word gay dog.

ABANDONED ‘GAY AS HELL’ DOG FDS HOME WH GAY NORTH CAROLA UPLE

A dog was surrenred to an animal shelter North Carola after his owners cid he was "gay, " acrdg to WCCB-TV. Stanly County Animal Shelter Facebook post says a dog’s owners surrenred him to the shelter for beg "gay" after he humped another male dog. A North Carola dog who was abandoned after his owners saw him humpg another male pooch and feared he might be gay has found a new fay — who named him after a famo gay Irish poet.

SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHLIVGDOG ADOPTED AFTER BEG LLED 'GAY,' ABANDONED AT SHELTER3:04WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTG BYYI-J YUMARCH 31, 2022, 4:08 AM•6 M READA NORTH CAROLA MAN WASN'T PLANNG TO ADOPT A DOG LAST WEEK BUT ONE NE'S STORY STOOD OUT TO STEVE NICHOLS AND HIS PARTNER, JOHN WN. ACRDG TO NICHOLS, THEIR CISN WAS CLOSE TO AN "IMMEDIATE" ONE.NICHOLS, 61, AND WN, 58, HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 33 YEARS AND FIRST LEARNED ABOUT A DOG WHO WAS ABANDONED FOR SHOWG SO-LLED "GAY" BEHAVR OM A LOL NEWS REPORT.EDOR’S PICKSMARVELO DOGS PERFORM ACROSS THE NATN, PROMOTG ADOPTN FEB 15, 2022DOG RCUE ANIZATNS NEED OF FOSTER HOM AS 'QUARANTE SH' OF ADOPTNS SLOWSOCT 26, 2021WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTG DOGSAUG 26, 2020"WE SAW THE STORY ABOUT THE OWNER WHO TURNED THE DOG TO THE SHELTER BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY," NICHOLS TOLD "GOOD MORNG AMERI." "THE DOG HAD HUMPED ANOTHER MALE DOG AND HE NTACTED THE SHELTER AND SAID IF YOU DON'T RCUE THIS DOG, I'M GOG TO KILL HIM. SO THE FOLKS THE SHELTER WERE GREAT AND FOUND A PLACE FOR HIM IMMEDIATELY."THE DOG WAS TAKEN TO STANLY COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SERVIC, A SHELTER THAT WORKS WH GREATER CHARLOTTE SPCA. HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME FEZ."MY PARTNER AND I STARTED TALKG ABOUT . THE NVERSATN WENT SORT OF LIKE THIS, 'YOU KNOW, 33 YEARS, WE'VE HAD TO FACE THE SAME IGNORANCE, BIGOTRY AND STUPIDY OM PEOPLE AND WE WEREN'T ALWAYS ABLE TO DO SOMETHG ABOUT .' BUT WE THOUGHT, 'WE N DO SOMETHG ABOUT THIS,'" NICHOLS TOLD "GMA.""SO WE STARTED OUT AN EFFORT TO JT DO SOMETHG TO HELP, DONATE SOME MONEY OR SOMETHG LIKE THAT. OVER A PERD OF TWO DAYS, SORT OF MORPHED TO, 'WELL, HE'S GOG TO BE A PART OF OUR FAY,' AND WE JT END UP ADOPTG HIM."NICHOLS SCRIB OSR AS A "LAID-BACK, SWEET DOG."COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLSTHE UPLE, WHO LIVE INDIAN TRAIL, NORTH CAROLA, A SUBURB SOUTHEAST OF CHARLOTTE, ADOPTED THE DOG ON MARCH 22. TODAY, NICHOLS SAID THE BLACK AND BROWN DOG, WHO THEY RENAMED OSR, IS A "LOVABLE MUTT."OSR HAS SCE BEEN NTERED AND RECEIVED ABDOMAL SURGERY TO REMOVE A TTICLE NEAR HIS KIDNEY THAT NEVER SCEND NORMALLY. HE IS EXPECTED TO START HEARTWORM TREATMENT NEXT WEEK.HIS VETERARIAN, DR. WILLIAM PRSLY, THE OWNER OF PRSLY ANIMAL HOSPAL MATTHEWS, NORTH CAROLA, SAID OSR, WHO HE SURMIS IS A MIXED BREED -- POSSIBLY OF GERMAN SHEPHERD-HKY MIX -- AND BETWEEN 4 1/2 AND 5 YEARS OLD, HAS A LONG HEALTH JOURNEY AHEAD BUT HE'S OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE DOG'S FUTURE.OSR WAS ADOPTED ON MARCH 22.COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLS"OSR IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE SWEETT DOGS. HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY DOMANCE ISSU WHILE HE WAS HERE WH ANY OF THE DOGS THAT WE TRODUCED HIM TO," PRSLY TOLD "GMA."AS FOR A DOG'S SO-LLED "GAY" BEHAVR, PRSLY, WHO HAS BEEN PRACTICG FOR 25 YEARS, EXPLAED THAT 'S NOT AN ACCURATE SCRIPTN. "THERE IS NO SEXUAL ORIENTATN NE, FELE ANIMAL BEHAVR. IT'S JT NOT THERE," THE VET SAID."ONE WAY [DOGS] N EXERT THEIR DOMANCE IS BY HUMPG, THE OTHER IS BY NIPPG OR OTHER LTLE THGS THAT THEY DO," PRSLY SAID. "SOME DOGS HUMP, SOME DON'T. IT JT PENDS ON HOW THEY WANT TO EXERT THEIR DOMANCE OVER ANOTHER NE."NICHOLS SAID OSR WAS "VERY TIMID" AT FIRST BUT IS SLOWLY GETTG FORTABLE HIS NEW HOME.OSR RECENTLY HAD SURGERY AND WILL RECEIVE HEARTWORM TREATMENT NEXT WEEK.COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLS"HE'S BEGNG TO E OUT OF THAT SHELL. THE FIRST DAY WE HAD HIM, WE WERE BOTH OVERJOYED WHEN HE FIRST WAGGED HIS TAIL. AND THEN OVER THE WEEKEND, HE KD OF SED AT ME A UPLE OF TIM, WHICH MA ME REALLY HAPPY. SO I THK HE'S JT BEG A PART OF THE FAY AND HIS PERSONALY IS EMERGG EVERY DAY," NICHOLS SAID."HE'S JT SUCH A LAID-BACK SWEET DOG, OBEYS MANDS. DON'T GET MORE THAN TWO OR THREE FEET AWAY OM EHER ONE OF ," HE ADD.MORE: JOHN TRAVOLTA REVEALS SON BEN ADOPTED PUPPY JAMIE LEE CURTIS HELD AT THE OSRSOSR WAS NAMED AFTER THE GAY PLAYWRIGHT AND POET OSR WIL, NICHOLS SAID."HE IS A LEGENDARY THOR. HE WROTE 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG EARNT.' AND HE WAS ALSO VERY OUT, WHICH WAS A BIG AL HIS DAY, A MUCH BIGGER AL THAN IS TODAY," NICHOLS EXPLAED. "SO WE NAMED HIM OSR. WE ALWAYS GIVE OUR DOGS HUMAN NAM."NICHOLS AND WN ARE ALSO PROUD PARENTS TO HARRY, WHO WAS ADOPTED OM THE LOL SPCA.OSR ALSO HAS A NEW FURRY SIBLG, HARRY, A TERRIER-CHIHUAHUA MIX WHO WAS ALSO ADOPTED.COURTY OF STEVE NICHOLS"HARRY IS FE AS LONG AS OSR DON'T TAKE HIS SPACE ON THE BED AT NIGHT AND STEAL HIS OKI," NICHOLS SAID.NICHOLS SAID HE AND HIS PARTNER HOPE OSR'S STORY WILL SPIRE OTHERS TO ADOPT AND STRS THAT THERE WERE MANY VOLVED OSR'S SUCCS STORY."WE FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT PEOPLE THIS UNTRY FOR THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS ARE REALLY CRAVG STORI WH HERO AND HAPPY ENDGS. AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE STORI, BUT WE ARE NOT THE HERO," NICHOLS SAID. "THE HERO ARE THE SHELTER WORKERS, THE VETERARIAN'S OFFICE, THE PEOPLE OF THE SPCA, WHO AL WH THIS EVERY DAY."AND SO MY MSAGE WOULD BE PLEASE ADOPT, DON'T SHOP. ADOPT FIRST BEE THERE ARE PLENTY OF ANIMALS THAT NEED A LOVG HOME. AND IF YOU N'T ADOPT, SUPPORT THEM FANCIALLY, THEY SPERATELY NEED THE MONEY."EDOR’S PICKSMARVELO DOGS PERFORM ACROSS THE NATN, PROMOTG ADOPTN FEB 15, 2022DOG RCUE ANIZATNS NEED OF FOSTER HOM AS 'QUARANTE SH' OF ADOPTNS SLOWSOCT 26, 2021WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTG DOGSAUG 26, 2020UP NEXT LIVG—HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023HOW TO GET $4 MOVIE TICKETS FOR NATNAL CEMA DAYAUGT 24, 2023GROOM GETS NEW PASSPORT TIME FOR WEDDG AFTER DOG ATE AUGT 24, 2023UP NEXT LIVG—HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023HOW TO GET $4 MOVIE TICKETS FOR NATNAL CEMA DAYAUGT 24, 2023GROOM GETS NEW PASSPORT TIME FOR WEDDG AFTER DOG ATE AUGT 24, 2023

The dog was dropped off recently at the Stanly County Animal Protective Servic, a shelter Albemarle, after his owners saw him mountg another male dog and assumed he’s gay. Steve Nichols and his partner, John Wn, cid to adopt Fez when they realized he was facg the same kd of ignorance and bigotry they’ve faced as an openly gay uple, the Charlotte Observer reported. The uple cid to rename their new four-legged fay member Osr — after Osr Wil, the gay Irish poet and playwright the 1890s.

“What is almost as ncerng as the ia that he’s gay, and that the person gave him up for that reason, is the fact that the owner apparently didn’t do anythg to take re of this dog, ” Nichols told the Charlotte Observer. “I know ’s silly to thk that a dog is gay, but if he wants to be gay as hell, he n be gay here, ” he add.