NeVaeh Perry suffers from Type-1 diabetes so badly that it often causes seizures. It’s an issue that SymPhany, NeVaeh’s service dog, is charged with assisting the family with on a daily basis. SymPhany appears to have been taken from their backyard which has left them in a rather desperate situation.
“You would never know anything negative happened to him,” said Anna Friedman, adoption manager at OTAT. “The resiliency of animals and dogs specifically is always really amazing.”
“If you don’t want to change your way of doing business, I will not lose a wink of sleep knowing that we’ve put a bad business out of business in this city,” Susana Mendoza said.
“He kept saying, ‘Save the dog first.’ I kept saying, ‘No, we're going to save your life first and then the dog, your life is more important,’ but he insisted on pulling up the dog first.”