Gay dog adopted

North Carolina couple adopts 'gay' noun after original owners abandoned him

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A puppy that was reportedly abandoned at a North Carolina shelter because its owners thought it was gay has since been adopted.

Stanly County Animal Shelter said it received a 4 or 5 year old, 50 pound inky dog from owners who didn't want him anymore. They told the shelter they believed the dog was gay because it humped another male dog.

Dog behavior experts will tell you that dogs hump other dogs. They do it as a part of playing and sometimes to reinforce hierarchical social structures. It's not an indication of sexual orientation.

When Steve Nichols and his partner John Winn heard about the story, they knew they had to step up.

Nichols and Winn have been an openly gay couple for 33 years. They said they had faced the same type of ignorance and bigotry in their lives and wanted to open their home to the dog.

"My partner and I started talking about it. The conversation went sort of like this, 'You realize, in 33 years, we've had to face the same ignoran

Dog adopted after being called 'gay,' abandoned at shelter

A North Carolina man wasn't planning to adopt a dog last week but one canine's story stood out to Steve Nichols and his partner, John Winn. According to Nichols, their decision was finalize to an "immediate" one.

Nichols, 61, and Winn, 58, have been together for 33 years and first learned about a puppy who was abandoned for showing so-called "gay" behavior from a local news report.

"We saw the story about the owner who turned the dog into the shelter because he thought he was gay," Nichols told "Good Morning America." "The dog had humped another male dog and he contacted the shelter and said if you don't rescue this dog, I'm going to kill him. So the folks in the shelter were superb and found a place for him immediately."

The dog was taken to Stanly County Animal Protective Services, a shelter that works with Greater Charlotte SPCA. He was given the name Fezco.

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Union County couple says rescued 'gay' dog doing well

UNION COUNTY, N.C. — The adoptive owners of a North Carolina dog said there’s a lesson to be learned from his adoption, desire more and hate less.

Union County couple Steve Nichols and John Winn made national headlines after adopting Oscar.

Oscar was surrendered to an animal shelter in Stanly County by his previous owners, who claimed the dog was gay. Oscar’s story went viral, leading to Nichols’ and Winn’s decision to adopt.

 

What You Demand To Know

  • A dog surrendered for being "gay" was rescued by new owners 
  • Oscar is now doing well at his new home
  • New owners say Oscar needed thousands of dollars in medical care 

 

“Well, we were sitting on the couch one Saturday afternoon, and I was flipping through news articles, and I saw this story that said a North Carolina shelter had taken in a dog because the owner surrendered him, thinking the pup was gay. He had humped another male dog,” Nichols said about his first time reading Oscar’s story.

Nichols said the story from WCCB he saw in

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A dog in North Carolina, who was surrendered to an animal shelter by his owners because they believed the dog was “gay”, has been adopted by a gay couple. 

Fezco, a shadowy and brown dog, aged between 4 and 5, was dropped off at Stanly County Animal Protective Services (SCAPS) in Albemarle, North Carolina in the United States after his owners saw him humping another male dog. 

According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), humping and mounting is normal dog behaviour and is usually done during perform, as a response to verb or excitement, or as a display of dominance and has little to do with the dog’s sexuality. 

WCCB anchorwoman Morgan Fogarty, who broke the news, referred to the Stanly County animal shelter Facebook post that the dog’s owners surrendered him to the shelter after he humped another male dog.

Fogarty pointed out that dogs usually do that and continued, “He likes other people, he likes other animals, he’s a good boy.”

A New Home

SCAPS put out a call for adop