DDR: How did you find out about Petey’s situation?
LISA MARIE: I received an urgent phone call from a woman in Canada who had been referred to me. She told me on the phone that she had no place else to turn, and that she had a dog she had boarded at Marc De Luna’s kennels, and she thought she recognized the dog on a movie clip of the South Gate Raid. Someone had told her Petey was dead, but if there was a chance he survived, I felt obligated to help get him out. I needed to know how he got in there, and where he originally came from: She told me she originally pulled him from death row in a Reno, Nevada shelter. After she had rescued him, she had no place to keep him – he was free without a place to be. She asked for advice from her LA rescue connections, where she was given Marc’s kennels as a good boarding facility so this is where Petey was checked into, but he was never checked out. Bark Avenue offered to temporarily care for some of the dogs to help Seaaca Downey shelter, where most of the dogs were taken who survived, and the owner of Bark confirmed Petey was not at her facility. So I went to Downey, after the lady from Canada agreed to send me everything I needed to go and officially free him, and have him in my care.

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