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Off the chain, Keane the pit bull goes home

Keane was already on a chain by the time he was six weeks old. He lived outside at a trailer park in North Carolina, one of the places PETA's field workers visit again and again. more

Those visits are part of PETA's Community Animal Project. Field workers bring outdoor dogs houses, straw bedding, food, toys and some much-needed affection. As one of them puts it, Keane's story isn't unusual.

Life on the chain wore him down. He developed mange, a painful skin disease that usually comes from poor food and stress. It turned his skin bright red and left it covered in sores and scabs.

The team got him vet care on two of their visits, but the mange was already severe and only got worse. In the end the breeder who owned him decided to give Keane up to PETA, so that he would survive.

At the PETA shelter, Keane got medicine several times a day, baths, meals and a lot of love. Then the staff hoped for the best.

Slowly, it worked. His hair grew back, his color came back, and so did what the team calls his zest for life. After all of that, he turned out to be sweet and smart, a dog who mostly just wants to snuggle.

Then comes the good day. "Today it's very exciting because I get to take Keane to his new home," says the worker who brings him there.

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Keane was already on a chain by the time he was six weeks old.

Waiting for him are a couple with a pit bull of their own, and the two dogs hit it off fast. For the first time in his life, Keane will live inside with a family, with a yard he can roam as much as he likes.

One of his new people has read his story and finds it pretty amazing that he could go through all that and still come right in as part of the family. "It seems like he'll fit right in." Keane, who mostly just wants to snuggle, now has a family and a best friend to do it with.

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