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By Arthur E. Foulkes for The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA — A medium-sized yellow and white dog, curled in a ball and covered with sores, was lying in an outdoor kennel at the Terre Haute Humane Society shelter early one morning last fall.

Steve Brown, the shelter manager, found the sickly dog when he arrived at work.

“He was dead” for all practical purposes, Brown said later. The dog, a victim of neglect found on the city’s north side, was dehydrated and, at 28 pounds, about half his normal weight. Terre Haute animal control officers had brought him to the shelter sometime after closing the previous day.

“He was so bad, his bones were showing through at his joints,” Brown said.

Thirty minutes after finding him, Brown, a large, bearded man with a love for animals, carried the dog, an approximately two-year-old American Bull Terrier and Pit Bull Terrier mix, to his car and drove him to a local veterinarian’s office. A shelter donor agreed to pay the dog’s vet bills – which are often at special rates for shelter animals. Despite the veterinary care, Brown said he didn’t really expect the dog to live through the night.

Still, Brown named the dog “Chance,” because “I hoped he’d get a chance to survive,” he said.

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