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Posted by on Dec 29, 2013 in Blog, Dogs

Abused, Shot, Neglected: The Story of Pilgrim

Abused, Shot, Neglected: The Story of Pilgrim

I like the way that ordinary dogs, who are extraordinary, sometimes get a happy ending to their torture and neglect.  The legacy of Pilgrim is just one such story.  Pilgrim was rescued by the Darlington, South Carolina Humane Society on Thanksgiving Day 2012.   by Pilgrim Bentz (as told to Bob Bentz) Darlington, SC — Pilgrim wasn’t my original name.  My original name was “Bentley.” On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2012, I was rescued by the Darlington County Humane Society in South Carolina.  The local newspaper did an article about me and so did the television station.  So, as you can see, I have become somewhat of a celebrity. For the first two years of my life, I was chained to a tree in the backyard of my house on Trudie Lane in Darlington.  My owner didn’t take very good care of me and kept my puppy collar on me for a long time.  The problem was I kept growing and became too big for the collar and my...

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