Cindy the Wounded Dog Adopted

Cindy, , is now living on the West Coast.

A woman related to the man who shot Cindy adopted her a few weeks ago, along with Cindy’s half-brother, Taz. She said in a phone interview they’re all living together with her other dogs and cats on a seven-acre spread in west Oregon.

“Cindy is doing marvelously,” said the woman. “This is about as tranquil a place as dogs could be in.”

She said she felt a moral obligation to adopt the dogs because they’d given comfort to older family members who'd died. She asked that her name not be used in this article, saying she worries she'll be harassed because of her relation to the man accused of shooting the dog.

Patch ran a story about Cindy in August after DeKalb County Animal Control brought the dog to on College Avenue. DeKalb County police said the owner shot Cindy twice in the head because she used the bathroom in the house.

Thinking Cindy was dead, the man put her into a plastic bag and placed her on the curb with the household garbage. Cindy was alive and some women walking by heard her whimpering. They called authorities.

The staff at Dearborn dedicated themselves to healing Cindy, said Scott Zimmerman, the Dearborn practice manager. Police charged Christopher Woods of Ponce de Leon Avenue. His case is still pending.

The family member in Oregon heard about Cindy through contacts in Atlanta. Several weeks ago she flew f to Atlanta to collect the dogs. Cindy, 8, and Taz, 11, are both chow mixes.

“These aren’t young dogs,” she said. “The likelihood of both getting adopted is close to nothing.”

Cindy’s new owner had to pay about $3,700 in expenses. She sees the adoption as one link in a chain of good deeds done for a helpless dog.

 “For every bad there’s a good,” she said. “In this case, there’s a lot more good than bad.”