With treats stuffed in the pocket of his faded jeans, Matt Albert led a large, fluffy, white and gray dog through the open fields of Against All Oddz Animal Alliance in Darien Center.
“Sit,” commanded Albert, the executive director of the animal sanctuary.
Bandit, a 4-year-old Alaskan malamute, complied and eagerly looked to Albert for his reward.
“Good boy,” Albert praised, as Bandit happily accepted a treat from his pocket.
Bandit has come a long way since the summer, Albert said, when he was deemed a “dangerous dog” by a Lancaster judge and sent to live out the rest of his life at the Genesee County rescue center.
A service dog who bit a neighbor will be removed from his owner’s home and sent to live at an animal sanctuary, a Lancaster town judge ruled Thursday.
Against All Oddz takes in animals – mostly dogs – who have nowhere else to go, Albert said. Many, like Bandit, were designated as dangerous dogs by a court. Others come from rescues who weren’t able to handle the dogs.
Bandit used to belong to a village of Lancaster resident named Joshua Gilley. Bandit helped Gilley control seizures he suffers from as a result of a traumatic brain injury.
But Bandit was taken away from Gilley in June after escaping from his home and biting a…
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