Denver, CO – An English Setter who captured hearts in Denver over the past week because of a race to save him from euthanasia will get a second chance in a new home.
The former owners of Watson, a 10-year-old of the rare hunting breed, turned him over to the Denver Animal Shelter after he bit the family’s 2-year-old, who had fallen on Watson and startled him while the dog slept.
Susan Dunlap, director of Texas-based Southwest English Setter Rescue, said the parents got in touch with the organization to find a different home for Watson and said they could get him back from the Denver Animal Shelter once they found somewhere else to take him in.
But after the Southwest English Setter Rescue agreed to take Watson in, the family reportedly learned the shelter planned to put Watson down at the end of a 10-day bite quarantine, Dunlap told The Denver Gazette, a hold that a spokesperson for the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment said is standard to make sure the animal does not have rabies.
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