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• When Steve Nichols and John Winn of Indian Trail, North Carolina, saw a TV news story about a dog whose owners abandoned him because they thought he was "gay," they knew they had to do something.
The couple of 33 years told The Charlotte Observer that they drove to Albemarle on March 23 to adopt the dog, whom they named Oscar, after the Irish poet Oscar Wilde.
Oscar's previous owners had surrendered him for humping another male dog, which, Nichols said, "was one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. That's just pack behavior."
Nichols noted that the dog hadn't been neutered and was suffering from heartworm, which led him to believe that "the owner apparently didn't do anything to take care of this dog."
Oscar is getting the care he needs and will join the couple's other dog, Harry, at their home.