“My partner and I started talking about it. The dog was taken to Stanly County Animal Protective Services, a shelter that works with Greater Charlotte SPCA. So the folks in the shelter were great and found a place for him immediately.” “We saw the story about the owner who turned the dog into the shelter because he thought he was gay,” Nichols told “Good Morning America.” “The dog had humped another male dog and he contacted the shelter and said if you don’t rescue this dog, I’m going to kill him. Nichols, 61, and Winn, 58, have been together for 33 years and first learned about a dog who was abandoned for showing so-called “gay” behavior from a local news report. According to Nichols, their decision was close to an “immediate” one. A North Carolina man wasn’t planning to adopt a dog last week but one canine’s story stood out to Steve Nichols and his partner, John Winn.
