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A DOPT A HOMELESS PET

Monty has a happy tale—and a happy tail. The curl in the latter is about the only evidence that he is part pug. The rest of him is a wire-haired Brussels Griffon, a dog that is described on the Petfinder breed list as “spunky.” But there’s that little pug tail, and one of his adopted “siblings,“Curly, thinks its some kind of handle, according to Kathy Gerbasi, his new mom.

The Lewiston, N.Y., woman already had three Petfinder rescue dogs, one of whom was the aforementioned Curly, but she decided there was room for one more, and Monty was the lucky dog she adopted. This former Kentucky puppy mill pup was listed on Petfinder by Buffalo Pug and Small Breed Rescue in Alden, N.Y.

“His mom and most of his litter died due to parvo [a contagious virus affecting dogs], and he made it,” Gerbasi says. He ended up in foster care in Rochester, N.Y., waiting for the right home.

Monty and Curly “are having a blast, running around and playing together. There is no TV show that is as amusing as watching them play. I really did not care for Monty’s name at first,” she admits, ”but after seeing him jump onto a kitchen chair, flip the chair over and land on top of the kitchen table just like it was no big deal, I think maybe someone named him for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which makes sense, given his acrobatics and goofy nature.”

Monty and the other three dogs have part-time jobs. They “are all unofficial adjunct psychology professors at Niagara County Community College,” Gerbasi says. “They help demonstrate classical and operant conditioning to Intro to Psych students.”

His full-time job, however, is being part of a happy family, and that’s enough for any pooch.