In a shocking case of doggie discrimination, an American Bulldog mix in Tennessee was facing death by lethal injection after his owner abandoned him for "being gay."

The pet owner came to his genius conclusion after discovering his butch Bulldog "hunched over" another male dog - assumed they were about to have sex, freaked out and immediately dropped his obviously "homo hound" at a high kill overcrowded animal shelter, which was forced to schedule the poor pooch for euthanasia because it was too late to find a new - presumably, more intelligent and informed - owner.

However, just as it seemed that the cast-off canine was a dead dog walking, he received a miraculous last minute stay of execution and was plucked from the jaws of death by a guardian angel, after a Facebook campaign made the pup's plight public.

The campaign aimed to save the dog by appealing to animal lovers to take him, because he was dumped "not because he's mean or he tears things up but because… His owner says he's gay."

"Even if that weren't the most asinine thing I've ever heard, it's still discrimination" wrote the page creator Jackson TN Euthanasia, a 39-year-old mother-of-four who pays regular visits to the high-kill shelter