Many of our old friends will remember Mikey the emacieted boxer that was beaten so badly  that his eye  came out of its socket. He was picked up as a stray on Chestnut Ridge Road in  Chilhowie Virginia in Feb 2010.

Sadly despite overcoming the initial odds of sugery, being trained by our friend Amy Powell  and ultimately adopted  in May ‘10 by Andrea Counts. Mikey, in the end will still loose his life  due to the beating he received back in Feb ‘10. For the last few months Mikey has steadily  declined, loosing vision in his remaining eye as well as suffering from neurological  symptoms. Andrea has had him to Va Tech for evaluations which revealed scar tissue/lesions  on his brain. It has now impaired his mobility to a point where there is no quality of life. Dr  Garrett will  humanely put Mikey to sleep tomorrow at his home to make it  as least tramatic as possible for him.

I want to thank all who helped Mikey, whether you donated or helped transport him. I would especially like to thank Amy Powell for training him so that he could get over his food aggression and be adopted.

And last but not least, in fact first, I would like to thank Andrea Counts for taking him into her home, for loving  him, for giving him one on one attention, for teaching him that not all people are mean and for allowing him to  know peace after facing such brutality. I know you will miss him Andrea, I know that there are no words to  comfort you but I would like to thank you personally for loving him  these last 16 months.