A Place For Nugget The Puppy

As an unwanted puppy, Nugget was smaller than a cup of soda. Now she's a young dog looking for her perfect home.

Mickie Blair attracts homeless dogs. She's mostly a cat person (good thing too, because she heads up most of the feline care and cat-saving operations at LifeLine Animal Project in Avondale Estates) but homeless dogs consider her irresistible, too. "They find me," she says, "no matter where I go." One day last year she was picking up a community cat that had mistakenly been taken to animal control when she was approached by a man in the parking lot. "Want a puppy?" he asked. "What kind of puppy?" Blair asked back, stalling for time while she tried to figure out where this exchange was leading. The man explained that his sister had gotten a pup from a neighbor who didn't want it, but his sister couldn't keep the dog either. Blair listened …

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