Sully the beagle mix recently had surgery for a torn knee ligament. The 8-year-old pup, who'll be out of his lampshade soon, is doing just fine. Recovery will be a couple months, and the doctor has ordered Sully to stay put — meaning he can only stay within the gated front yard of his human's South Pasadena home to answer nature's call.

Therein lies the problem.

" He won't go to the restroom here," said Sully's human, Rudy Martinez.

That's been the case ever since Martinez and his husband rescued the beagle mix from the nonprofit Mutt Scouts when he was 3.

Sully simply needs the scent of other dogs before he can do his own business.

" I think he just likes the smell of the dogs," Martinez said.

So Martinez put out a call on two "buy nothing" type groups on Facebook in late July ask

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