They’re hated and feared and therefore more likely to be abused.” “The worse shape the dog is in, the more determined I am to fix it,” he says. Flatt even offers a sort of hospice care, taking in dying dogs and easing their final days with steak and ice cream. One dog had been frozen to the ground during an ice storm another had more than 60 puncture wounds one had been tortured with a shock collar. He takes on the fighters and the biters, the blind and the deaf, and any other special-needs case rejected by other organizations or sentenced to death row at the pound. June received reconstructive surgery for her injuries and joined the ranks of damaged creatures salvaged by Friends to the Forlorn (FTTF), Flatt’s Dallas, Georgia–based animal rescue operation, which has worked with every canine breed from Chihuahuas to Mastiffs but specializes in pit bulls. I wasn’t sure if she even had a jawbone left, but I knew one thing for sure: I had to save that dog.”Įvery morning, Flatt wakes up compelled by that simple mission: He has to save a dog-especially ones that everyone else has given up as lost. “I can’t say for certain that there was dogfighting involved, but her injuries are consistent with it. “I didn’t know what I was looking at, at first,” Flatt says of the dog’s messy wounds. An animal control worker had texted him a photo of the pup’s disfigured face. Nobody wants a pit bull mangled in a dogfight, which is precisely why Jason Flatt did want her. Half of her face was missing, her ankle was broken, and she had a nasty staph infection. She recently started to wag her tail and answer to the name June.Ī couple of months ago, she was found chained outside DeKalb Animal Control. The brown puppy has acquired a perpetual, ingratiating, lopsided grin. Jason Flatt pets Sarah, whose face was mangled in a dog fight.