Dolly, the pit bull

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Please watch. The only way to help animals is to know what they are going through. If we don't have the built-in courage to see what is happening to them, we are letting down mankind as well as those with no voices of their own. It hurts to... look, I know; been there, done that. But these beautiful creatures need our love, our help and our compassion. There are way too many wolves--human ones--who maim, torture and kill animals as though they aren't capable of emotion or feeling pain. The rest of us know differently.

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[AtomicKitten]

1. This sweet girl deserves a loving forever home.

As do all the frightened and confused animals that find themselves in a shelter, particularly now during these tough economic times. I encourage all that are able to open up their homes for one more, just one more of these creatures and give them the loving home they deserve.

Way to go, Dolly.

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2. Oh it broke my heart....

[Booster]

3. God bless the lady that took Dolly home. Breaks my heart that she had to go thru all that.

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4. Had an English Staffie

30 years ago. Still won't let go of my heart! They're like that.

[roody]

5. That's a beautiful story.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Happy endings give me a silly grin.

[provis99]

7. it is wrong to compare humans to the noble wolves.

if you want to compare humans to animals, compare them to baboons: bullying, psychotic, untrustworthy primates like us.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Sometimes it takes our fur brothers and sisters to remind us other behaviours are possible.

For instance, look how quickly a dog can forgive. It's amazing and inspiring.

[Dover]

8. So difficult to watch...and there are plenty of stories like this with really horrific endings.

But I wonder ... if they knew the people who adopted her were using her as a bait dog, were they arrested or
even investigated? That is against the law...

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9. I think it was in hindsight

not when she was adopted out the first time. That's the problem sometimes--too few people truly being investigated--even when they ask as many questions as they do and do what they can in terms of checking out potential owners, sometimes there just isn't an indication of how horrible those "parents" are.

I've recently been donating more money to law enforcement for animals, hoping to catch some more of the bastards who participate in dog fighting. We really need more high profile arrests like Michael Vick to show those assholes that we're not fooling around anymore, and that anyone who harms an animal in such a vicious "game" will be jailed. Vick is walking around with essentially a slap on the wrist for the shit he did, and we know there are many like him out there.

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11. ...

dolly, i'm so glad you found your home!