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January 28, 2008

Another Vick dog: Meet Tug

tug.%3Bjpg.bmp Tug gets his name because that's his favorite thing to do, say his new caretakers at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

"He may have been a fighting dog, but when Tug arrived at the sanctuary, he didn't want to hurt anybody; he just didn't want anybody to hurt him. He's still afraid of loud noises and camera flashes," Best Friends says in its introduction to Tug, published on its website today.

Tug is one of the 22 dogs who came to Best Friends from the estate of former NFL quarterback, Michael Vick.

Best Friends allowed the news media to meet the dogs for the first time today.

Caregivers take him for walks with an "easy walk harness" that keeps him from pulling them down the road, and they're looking into a scooter wagon so he can actually pull his caregivers on rides, the organization said.

To read more about Tug, or sponsor him, click here.

(Photo courtesy of Best Friends)

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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