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A Central Florida family is reunited with its pet eight months after the animal was left with a veterinarian to be euthanized over painful tumors growing in her ears.

Candy, a Maltese belonging to the Oaks family, had tumors in her ears that the family could not afford to treat.

The decision to end the dog’s suffering prompted Angela Oaks to travel to the Mayfair Animal Hospital in Winter Park.

“First of all, (I) sat in the parking lot for a long time because I didn’t know if that’s what I wanted to do,” Oaks said. “I just felt bad because I couldn’t afford the surgery, and I wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do.”

Oaks decided to sign the papers, and she paid a fee to have Candy euthanized.

“I told my daughter she was in doggy Heaven,” Oaks said.

However, eight months after the dog was left to be euthanized, Oaks received a call from the veterinarian, Dr. Peggy Stubblefield.

“She told you they never euthanized Candy?” Local 6’s Jessica Sanchez said.

“Yes,” Oaks said.

Oaks found out that Candy was being kept alive.

Stubblefield offered only a limited explanation of why the dog was kept alive against its owner’s wishes, Sanchez reported.

“I can say when I see a dog that is vivacious, happy, wriggling, coming up to everybody in the room, my first impulse is to keep it alive as long as possible,” Stubblefield said.

Stubblefield said she tried to contact the Oaks family to propose a treatment plan for Candy.

“We tried by telephoning them by the number on the euthanasia request, and that’s all I can say, I can’t say anything else,” Stubblefield said.

Local 6 reported that a fill-in veterinarian at Mayfair took pity on Candy, performed the surgery to fix her ears and rescued her from the hospital.

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Getting to evening church services is a smooth ride for 70-year-old Betty Owens and other members of La Prada Drive Church of Christ.

That’s because the Mesquite church recently bought a limousine to help members uncomfortable with driving to services every Sunday and Wednesday evening.

Church Elder Gerald Hanley said it’s not as extravagant as it sounds – the silver 1990, nine-passenger Cadillac Fleetwood cost $1,700.

The purchase is a practical solution for the 185-member conservative congregation, he said.

Mr. Hanley said he came up with the idea about four months ago, when he attended a church seminar in Oklahoma. He saw a couple of limousines at a church there and was told they were being used to transport people to and from church.

The more he looked into it, the more sense it made.

“We’ve got several members who would be willing to drive some of these older members to night services, but most of the younger people drive big SUVs or smaller cars and older people find it hard to get into and out of those vehicles,” Mr. Hanley said.

Mr. Hanley learned that used limousines, usually from funeral homes, are a great bargain. The church located a used limo dealer in Dallas, which had a great-looking silver Cadillac Fleetwood.

The dealer was using the vehicle as a “gate car” to block the entrance to the lot at night, Mr. Hanley said.

“It only had 37,000 miles on it,” he said. “Didn’t have a scratch on it and it runs perfectly; we only had to fix one mirror on it.”

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