No one connected with the shelter is exactly sure what happened to prevent Lazarus' death, and officials declined to release the name of the contract veterinarian who performed the injection. (Reuters) SummaryA survivor of an accident, a dog named 'Lazarus' also amazingly recovered from a euthanasia attempt... Related ArticlesUS plane makes emergency landing after dog poops thriceDog 'cleaned' in washing machine sparks anger in Hong KongDogs can be pessimists too!Dog's epigenome gives clues to human cancer Animal control officer Wanda Snell knows what she saw: A veterinarian inserted a needle into the black-and-brown mutt and injected a chemical meant to euthanize the dog no one had adopted. The animal moved a bit and was still and quiet by the time she left the shelter for home.
What Snell can't explain is how or why a mixed-breed dog that nobody wanted recovered overnight and has since bounced back fully from what should have been a lethal injection.
Less than a month later, the dog lives with a family in a suburb of the Alabama city of Birmingham, where the animal romps and plays with another rescue dog. His survival seemed all the more surprising since the same dog already had been struck by a car before arriving at the Ozark City Animal Shelter.
A rescue worker who retrieved the roughly 4-year-old male dog after the failed procedure named him ''Lazarus'' after the man the Bible says Jesus brought back to life. Snell has another name for that escape artist of a dog. ''I call him Houdini,'' she said.
No one connected with the shelter is exactly sure what happened to prevent Lazarus' death, and officials declined to release the name of the contract veterinarian who performed the injection.
Shelter volunteer Cortney Blankenship has an idea, however. ''His body overcame and he had a will to live and somehow, someway he made it through,'' said Blankenship.
Records show the dog arrived at the shelter on Aug. 19 after being dropped off by its owner, who Blankenship said was moving and could no longer care for it. The animal was cut and bloody after being struck by a car and a pad on its left rear foot was missing.
Blankenship tried to find a rescue home through social media, but no one stepped up to adopt. So the dog's scheduled date with death arrived on Sept. 10.
Snell said the vet arrived late that afternoon to euthanize animals due to be put to sleep. Snell said she accompanied the veterinarian and witnessed the entire procedure. The dog moved a bit when injected, almost as if fighting the drug before it quieted and was still, Snell said. The animal was left for dead inside a pen, its body to be removed later.
But when Snell arrived for work the next morning, she saw the dog standing in an outdoor pen
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