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Home > The Alliance in the News > 2005 Alliance News Items > Pup gets a new leash on life by Lisa L. Colangelo, New York Daily News Thursday, July 7, 2005 This is one little puppy with a mysterious past. No one is really sure what happened before someone dropped off the 6-week-old pooch at Animal Care and Control's Brooklyn shelter. She had a shattered pelvis and other serious injuries. Years ago, her fate in the overcrowded, underfunded city shelter system would have been grim. But the puppy, named Kallie, got some first-class medical care, thanks to a partnership between the ACC, the Mayor's Alliance for New York City's Animals and Glen Wild Animal Rescue in Sullivan County. Liz Keller, a former ACC Manhattan shelter manager who runs Glen Wild Animal Rescue, coordinated all three groups to give the Jack Russell/pit bull mix a better chance at life. Now Kallie is recovering after surgeries that repaired her hip and amputated her tail. The cast that covers her left rear leg doesn't stop her from trying to jump around like a puppy. "She is just the sweetest thing," said Keller. "We're trying not to let her run around but she wants to play." Keller's group is fostering Kallie until she has fully recovered and is ready to be adopted. Kallie's surgery was paid for by the Mayor's Alliance Picasso Fund, which is earmarked for "extraordinary veterinary costs for extraordinary animals" from shelters and rescue groups. "She's amazing, she's really adapted," Keller said of the cast Kallie drags around.
Copyright © 2005 Daily News, L.P.
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