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Shotzy, a local pup with a lot of personality and an adoring family running his Instagram account, is more than just an internet-famous cutie and a fixture on Bushwick’s canine social circuit. With one of his humans, he’s half of a volunteer home visit team for the nonprofit Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue, helping the organization vet prospective adopters.
The four-year-old terrier mix, who has accrued nearly 2,000 followers on Instagram since his account launched about three years ago, is a Badass adoptee himself. His owners say that he was rescued from a kill list at a shelter in Alabama before he made his way north to New York City.
