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with his owner through the Alliance of Therapy Dogs (ATD) to bring smiles to all! Enzo is deaf, mostly blind, and has limited mobility due espite having “lost the genetics lottery,” as his vet says, special needs to severe dysplasia and bad hips. The five-year-old rescued Neapolitan Enzo is half of a Pet Therapy Team Mastiff was adopted by Dawn Scovel and her partner (who’s media shy, so we won’t name the guy who cares
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for him, too). Together the family lives in Etna with five other rescued dogs. Dawn, who was forced into early retirement from her computer programming career due to her own disabilities associated with
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