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Smithtown Animal Control Officer Denise Vibal said when shelter workers informed potential adopters of Kobe s condition, people backed off. Nobody wants to sign up for heartache, Vibal said.
However, the public s interest in Kobe kept growing, especially on the town s social media pages. Any time we put any picture or video up of him, people go wild because he s so cute and sweet, Vibal said.
Doctors put Kobe on blood pressure medicine, which improved the condition and allowed surgery to be an option.
Dr. Josh Morgenstern, at VMCLI, will perform the surgery next month.