About Neglect

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  Lucky, the dog confined to a basement for years, is returned to his owners

  by Leslie Smith on October 18th, 2010

  UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST! It finally appeared that luck was changing for Lucky, the Seattle-area dog who spent most, if not all, of the last four years confined to a filthy basement. Neighbors say that several times a week, a man could be seen dumping food in through the sliding glass door, but...

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  Was dognapping incident simply good intentions gone wrong?

  by Leslie Smith on October 7th, 2010

  Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary , a refuge for abused animals which I'd visited and written about several times, made the front page of today's Santa Fe New Mexican . Natalie Owings, Heart and Soul's founder, had received an anonymous phone call claiming that a local Yorkie was being neglected -...