A dog whose rejection by his owner caused an Internet uproar has been adopted into a new, and presumably more tolerant, home.
The male pit bull mix, whose name no one seems to know, was left at the Madison County, Tennessee, Rabies Control animal shelter, CNN affiliate WBBJ reported.
According to the irreverent website Gawker, Facebook users had a hissy fit Wednesday when they found out the dog's owner got rid of the animal after he (the dog, not the owner) humped another male dog.
"His owner threw him away (because) he refuses to have a 'gay' dog!" a Facebook user named TN Euthanasia wrote.
The post went semi-viral, with 861 likes, 1,869 comments and 5,048 shares. After Gawker told the rest of the digital world about it, noting that the dog was in imminent danger of being put down, the shelter was swamped with calls offering to adopt the uncloseted canine.
By Thursday morning, shelter workers confirmed to WBBJ that the amorous animal had been adopted by a person associated with a rescue/shelter group.
What would you name this dog if you adopted him? Share your ideas in the comments below.
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This has got to be one of the silliest things I ever heard...I have seen dogs hump a sofa...does that mean the dog has a sofa fetish?
This is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. Why don't they euthanize the former owner.
I bet his owner called him peanut butter.
HA !
@cnn, get rid of the post that Kenny Rogers posted under my name!
Now that's funny............
Wassup my peoples? Just passing by.
Piers Morgan..
I do say, Watson, the frequency of headlines in this dinural course seems to be lacking this morn.
Let me guess. This guy has never been to the dog park.
Dogs do this often around other dogs. It is an attempt to dominate. It is NOT an attempt to get it on. Even fixed dogs will do this.
and female dogs too... now that's funny!
Dogs do anything that feels good, and they will do it in public.
Not all dogs are born smarter than most human beings, but one CNN journalist's purple Southern prose published early yesterday was more poorly written than some parakeets' dark-and-stormy-night speeches.
This is a publicity stunt. What difference does it make if the dog is gay or not. Why should it be saved and not the others.
I am sure the owner was just trying to be funny and the whole story got blown out of proportion. More than likely, the place he dropped the dog off at had gay employees and the owner was just trying to get a rise out of them. If I had to guess, that is a more likely scenario.
Pitty the fools who try to find validation to their deviant paranormal bevahviors thru silly stories like this one.
Mind reading, speaking to the dead, psychokinetic abilities, dog hum.ping......
I agree, a pretty silly idea...
Gay and a pit bull? Two reasons to put it out of its misery.
truer words have never been spoken.
this story has already been confirmed as a hoax by that group of people that love making "news story hoaxes" and see if the MSM will pick it up.
a win is if the story makes it all around the world
It's Tn. Nothing more to say.
What more should we expect from one of the states where family trees have no branches.....What on earth is the IQ of people living there....5? In thsi day and age it just shows how bigoted and totally without education this state is.