Billings, MT – What a difference a year can make in a dog’s life. Last May, Lauri Alberti adopted a scared, neglected American Bullie who she happened to run across online. It happened just in the nick of time.
“She was going to be euthanized that day,” Alberti said.
Alberti and her husband drove all the way from Montana to California to pick up the dog, whom they named Lady Di. The two-year-old animal had spent much of its young life tied to a tree.
“She was a mess. She was almost catatonic. She just was recovering from severe infection on her skin from laying in feces and urine. And she was terrified. She was terrified of everything and everybody,” Alberti says.
But Alberti found a way to connect with the canine by introducing her to dock diving, where dogs take to the air jumping for distance into the pool.
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