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Updated:Photo credit: Best Friends Animal Society “It’s wonderful to be able to welcome Bela here,” Best Friends CEO Gregory Castle said in a statement. “It speaks to our principle of valuing all animal life. In this case, there was potential for something terrible to happen, but we are set up to give him a great life and all indications are that he is a beautiful and wonderful dog.”
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It’s a very happy new year for Bela the dog and the many people who worried about the 9-year-old German shepherd’s fate.After an 1,800-mile trip to Utah from Indiana, Bela arrived at the Best Friends Animal Society’s no-kill sanctuary Sunday where he was greeted with a great big party:
That great life might have ended much sooner.
Bela’s owner, Indiana resident Connie Ley, died in November. Her will provided that Bela could either be euthanized and cremated, with the dog’s ashes mixed with hers, or that the pup could be sent to Best Friends’ no-kill sanctuary — home to some 1,700 dogs, cats, pigs, goats, bunnies, birds and other animals — in the red rocks of southern Utah.