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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As far as we can tell, none of the Basset girls we have now
(Gracie, Holly and Anna) have been physically abused, other than being
neglected and ignored. Buy my dear little Abby, who was a red tweenie
Dachshund and has been ATB for many years, was one of three puppies that a man
was seen leaving in a box on the doorstep of the SPCA in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Dallas</st1:place></st1:City> many years ago. The pups were
three females, probably from the same litter, all in the 6 to 8 month old
range. All of the pups had been severely beaten, and the SPCA managed to
keep Abby and one other pup alive, but the third died from being beaten to
death. And it wasn’t their first beating, you should have seen the
physical and emotional scars on those girls.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So I adopted Abby a couple of months later, and she stayed
velcroed to me until the day she died at age 13. When she was 8 years old
she was diagnosed with a heart murmur, and x-rays were taken at that
time. The x-rays showed she had a pellet from a pellet gun (not a bb,
worse) imbedded in her back, and trust me, it did not happen after she came to
live with me. She had been abused in so many ways I can’t even list
them all and trust me you don’t want to know some of the things that had
been done to her, and then we find out she was shot, too, all before her first
birthday. I’ve had several other dogs who had been abused, although
none anywhere near as badly as Abby. Which is why I fervently hope and
pray that there is such a place as hell, and there is some form of divine
retribution for meanness and cruelty, whether it is to people or to
animals. And why as a group, I much prefer animals to people. I
hope the lady who shot the Sharpei “gets hers” some day. All
she had to do was call animal control, but she’d prefer to go buy a BB
gun and shoot the poor dog. Nice person.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=JanieHmkBold><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:JanieHmkBold'>Anita Woodrum</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net">a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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