METHUEN — A family adopted Gandhi, the Chihuahua that was found in a Dumpster.
Another Chihuahua named Princess is recovering from heart surgery.
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took care of Gandhi after the starving dog was rescued from a Dumpster on Aug. 13 at a construction site on Oxford Street in Lawrence.
Mike Keiley, director of the Noble Family Animal Care and Adoption Center at the MSPCA, said yesterday that the male dog, believed to be about 12 years old, was adopted.
Meanwhile, Princess — a 6-pound 2-year-old Chihuahua at the MSPCA — received lifesaving surgery to repair a severe heart murmur on Wednesday.
Doctors hoped to perform a noninvasive procedure using a catheter that would be inserted through an artery in the dog's leg to close the abnormal connection between the aorta and pulmonary artery. However, they feared they might have to open the dog's chest to tie off the connective blood vessel.
Keiley said doctors were able to perform the less invasive procedure.
"She's doing great now," he said of Princess.
He is caring for Princess until someone adopts the dog.
