Daniel the Miracle Dog Walks from the Gas Chamber!

08 / 11 / 2011

The worst part of his job is loading the unwanted dogs into the death chamber knowing that the moment he presses the button it spells the end of their lives. But animal control officer Cody Berry - who has spent the last five months working for the Animal Control Department in Florence, Alabama - does what he has to do.

Carbon monoxide seeps into a chamber full of dogs, including a young beagle mix that was left anonymously outside a pound. His life was supposed to end in that gas chamber. Instead, the young stray emerged frightened but unscathed, wagging his tail. Now, he's being hailed as a miracle dog, given the name Daniel after the biblical figure who survived the lion's den.

And he has a fresh start in New Jersey, where a rescue group hopes to find him a good home. Only three animals have survived the gas chamber at the Animal Control facility in Florence in the past 12 years. 'Maybe God just had a better plan for this one,' said city spokesman Phil Stevenson.

Daniel's tail never stopped wagging as he stepped off a plane at a New Jersey airport, where he was flown on Wednesday by the nonprofit Eleventh Hour Rescue group and placed with volunteer Jill Pavlik until he can be adopted. 'He's absolutely fabulous,' Ms Pavlik, a hairdresser who works and lives in northern New Jersey, said on Friday.

'He walked in the house like he had always lived there. He's very sweet, happy and outgoing.' Linda Schiller, the shelter's founder and president, said the facility has already received about 100 applications from people around the country seeking to adopt Daniel.

(Source: Dailymail.co.uk – 3^rd November 2011)

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In Ireland approximately 40 dogs per day are put to sleep.  This number is tragically high!

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