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...this sounds like a dog lover's more-the-merrier fantasy - 101 Dalmatians times five - think again. The rehabilitation of even one fighting dog is a long and uncertain project. First comes the medical care. Beyond their obvious wounds and infections, some of the dogs arrive with broken ribs and internal injuries - from being kicked. After the physical exams comes a psychological evaluation. Experienced animal handlers gauge the dog's mental condition: How aggressive is it? How traumatized? How far gone? This screening is a final life-or-death ordeal for a dog, because a fighter that cannot be tamed...
Those receiving a positive prognosis, however, may be placed in a sort of halfway house for old fighters - a place like Tiffany McBee's Broken Hearts, Mended Souls Rescue in Fulton, Mo. Programs like McBee's will try to prepare the abused dogs for adoption, which doesn't happen overnight. "They need time to decompress" from the stress of their violent upbringing and the cacophony of the warehouse, McBee explains. An animal that was raised in secret, hidden in remote woods, tethered by heavy chain to a buried axle, suddenly finds itself chilling in suburbia. "They have to learn: What...
...learning to pick up on those signals a text gives out about what you should expect, so you can see when that text and its language violate those expectations,” Burt says. Originality, in other words, is only perceptible if the reader knows what conventions have been broken...
...next ten years. Members have participated in sleep-outs every Sunday in the Boston Common and have organized two earlier sleep-outs in the Yard.According to John E. Beatty ’11, the group could not get permits to sleep in the Yard, and HUPD has broken up the first two sleep-outs...
...another Notre Dame season is gone, and so is another coach. In Weis' last game, on Saturday night, Notre Dame lost to Stanford, 45-38. Outlined against a black November sky, Weis, who'd had a botched gastric bypass procedure and hobbles on bad knees, seemed broken - another man who couldn't bring salvation to the Irish...