Peanut's Road To Recovery

Peanut is four months old, weighs almost 2 pounds and was abandoned with two severely broken legs.

Atlanta can be a huge and scary place when you're all alone and only weigh 2 pounds. A chihuahua/miniature pinscher puppy was found this month, alone and in obvious pain, outside of an auto parts store. His owners could not be located and there were no "Lost Dog" notices online or in the paper matching his description. It was as if the tiny, terrified dog appeared out of nowhere. It soon became obvious he had nowhere to go and, with two broken legs, he wasn't going very far anyway. Enter LifeLine Animal Project. The Avondale Estates rescue and animal welfare organization took in the tiny two-pound pup (now named "Peanut" by rescuers because of his small size) and promptly set about finding a way to get him back on all four feet. They took …

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