{"id":1658,"date":"2022-03-24T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/dog-abandoned-at-north-carolina-animal-shelter-for-being-gay-gets-adopted-by-gay-couple-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:46:09","slug":"dog-abandoned-at-north-carolina-animal-shelter-for-being-gay-gets-adopted-by-gay-couple-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/dog-abandoned-at-north-carolina-animal-shelter-for-being-gay-gets-adopted-by-gay-couple-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog abandoned at North Carolina animal shelter for being &#039;gay&#039; gets adopted by gay couple &#8211; USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dog abandoned at a North Carolina animal shelter after his owners thought he was gay was\u00a0adopted by an openly gay couple on Tuesday.<br \/>Fezco, believed to be around 4 years old,\u00a0was left at Stanly County Animal Protective Services. Fezco gets along well with both humans and other dogs, according to the shelter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StanlyCountyAPS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Facebook page<\/a>.<br \/>Fezco&#8217;s previous owners had found him dominating another male dog in a sexual manner, leading them to think he was gay. But one of the reasons why dogs may engage in such behavior is that\u00a0they could have a high level of testosterone\u00a0that is driving the dog to breed, veterinarian Tahl Rozycki told USA TODAY.<br \/><strong class=gnt_ar_b_al>What to do if your dog just ate chocolate:<\/strong><a href=\"\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/03\/08\/dog-ate-chocolate-what-to-do\/9430312002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Here&#8217;s what to know and what you need to do first.<\/a><br \/><strong class=gnt_ar_b_al>Best cities to walk your dog:<\/strong><a href=\"\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/03\/04\/best-cities-dog-walking\/9372996002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Study ranks top places to take your pooch for a stroll<\/a><br \/>&#8220;It could just be he&#8217;s trying to assert dominance over the other dog,&#8221; said\u00a0Rozycki.\u00a0<br \/>The behavior also could be attributed to\u00a0dogs always having a pecking order in a multi-dog environment and them knowing where their pecking order is, Rozycki said.\u00a0<br \/>Steve Nichols and his partner John live in Charlotte and have been together for more than 30 years. They adopted Fezco and renamed him Oscar, after popular gay writer Oscar Wilde, according to the couple.<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s just such a silly reason to turn in a dog,\u201d Nichols told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wccbcharlotte.com\/2022\/03\/22\/update-gay-dog-dumped-at-shelter-gets-adopted-by-charlotte-area-gay-couple\/?utm_campaign=magnet&#038;utm_source=entity_page&#038;utm_medium=related_articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">WCCB Charlotte<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWe just thought it would make sense for the gay dog to be adopted by a loving gay family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2022\/03\/23\/gay-dog-abandoned-adopted\/7142770001\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dog abandoned at a North Carolina animal shelter after his owners thought he was gay was\u00a0adopted by an openly gay couple on Tuesday.Fezco, believed to be around 4 years old,\u00a0was left at Stanly County Animal Protective Services. Fezco gets along well with both humans and other dogs, according to the shelter&#8217;s Facebook page.Fezco&#8217;s previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}