| First I must apologise for not posting one of these yesterday. Reasons for this were my PC decided it didn't really like the McAfee firewall i put on there and it was going to stamp its feet and not play. After much coaxing, urging, screaming and threatening I gave it one last chance and reinstalled everything. That will teach it. Anyway onto the story: Dog Survives Euthanization at Mo. Chamber Cast into a city gas chamber to be euthanized with other unwanted or unclaimed dogs, it appeared the roughly year-old Basenji mix had simply run out of luck — and time. 
   
But this canine had other ideas. 
 When the death chamber's door swung open Monday, the dog now dubbed Quentin — for California's forbidding San Quentin State Prison — stood very much alive, his tail and tongue wagging. 
Animal-control supervisor Rosemary Ficken had never seen such a survivor, and she didn't have the nerve to slam the door shut again. 
This 30-pound animal, she believed, beat the odds and should live on. 
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