The Animal Reporter

Michele Young writes about animals

Posts about Dogs

Dog’s rescue story brings out the best and the worst in people

May 16, 2016

He was found wandering the streets of Lancaster, California. Like thousands, probably millions, of other stray dogs, he was sick and starving. Nothing but bones and matted fur, an infected wound festering on the side of his face, days from death. Anemic, his intestines wriggling with parasitic worms and foxtails (those scrubby plants that grow […]

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LIKED LINK

Everyone who has ever loved an animal should read Jody Spark’s column about the loss of her redbone coonhound Koko. Even the less-than-ideal dogs find their way into our hearts.

Allowing animal abusers a few pets is like allowing pedophiles a couple of kids

Clover and Heidi Somerville

March 7, 2014

Perhaps the judge should have spent some time in one of the cramped kennels or been left with festering sores to understand what these dogs experienced.

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