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...Animal Legal Defense Fund, a 23-year-old nonprofit group, the number of reported cases involving animal abuse, cruelty or neglect nearly tripled from 1996 to 2000. In a more recent case, a woman in Gautier, Miss., called the police on Dec. 4, 2002, when she noticed two Doberman pinschers, one dead and the other emaciated, in a pen in her neighbor's yard. The case went to court the next month, and the dogs' owner, a junior high school teacher, was found guilty of animal cruelty and fined $1,000. Thanks to a rescue group, the surviving Doberman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woof, Woof, Your Honor | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...them kept as pets. That is twice the estimated 5,000 or so left in the wild. In addition, Americans keep many thousands of other big cats, primarily lions and cougars. People own big cats for all sorts of reasons. Machismo is one: a tiger makes the nastiest Doberman seem like a yipping Chihuahua. Some people believe owning a tiger helps preserve an endangered species. And a tiger cub, at least, is downright adorable--until it grows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Trust A Tiger | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Have Been | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...were all NBA First-Team Defensive members during their record setting year, and were arguably three of the top five defensive players of the era. Along with 6’7 Ron Harper defending the point position, the Bulls would be able to unleash the stifling “Doberman Defense” against Shaq’s Lakers. Shaq would be his usual 30-10 self, but the rest of the Lakers would struggle in countering the relentless on-the-ball pressure of the Bulls defenders. Although it would not be nearly as dominating as their sweep...

Author: By Barat Samy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Shaq' In Time | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

Sure, some will slip through the cracks and be lured back for more mental punishment, but sooner or later, the grad school gig will become worse than this Doberman-eat-Doberman world. They'll be begging to be thrown into the ring, like those Christians to the lions...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, | Title: The Road to Nowhere | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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