CENTRALIA, Wash. — A pit bull named Hank that was wrongfully blamed for killing livestock last year is now free.
A judge in Thurston County, Washington, on Wednesday voided a Lewis County euthanasia order and ordered that Hank be released to his adoptive family in Centralia, Washington.
Hank's owners have been fighting in court for five months and finally won on Wednesday.
Though witnesses said the pit bull that killed the livestock was not Hank, a Lewis County judge ruled Hank a dangerous dog and directed he be put down.
"It feels wonderful! It's like I can't tell you how great it is," Hank's owner, Jann Propp-Estimo, told KIRO.
The family said they planned on spoiling Hank.