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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...
...most of them would have to be put down because of their injuries or their temperament. In fact, more than half the adult dogs and almost all the puppies are still alive nearly five months later. About 200 have been placed in private homes or in rescue programs like McBee's. But that still leaves more than 100 dogs in kennels at the warehouse. (See pictures from the World's Ugliest Dog show...
...reputation because of the type of people who own them," says Humane Society investigator Tim Rickey, who led the July rescue. If these muscular terriers have a flaw, their defenders maintain, it is an excess of devotion. "Their love for humans is why this breed is in trouble," says McBee. "They will take the abuse." Placed with the right companion, their devotion becomes a virtue - as Helen Keller knew. One of her pets was a pit bull...
...Thomas 7-8 4-7 5, Brown 9-16 5-6 28, Sutton 5-12 3-9 13, Metcalf 1-11 0-0 2, Teasley 2-9 2-2 8, Baptist 1-2 0-0 2, Bell 3-5 1-2 7, McBee 0-2 0-0 0, Chambers 0-1 0-0 0, Laaksonen 0-2 0-0 0, Davis 2-2 1-4 5, Coughran 1-1 0-0 2. Totals...
...truck, spewing fuel that exploded into a fireball. Unable to free himself, Krug, 37, was burned to death. His family puts the blame on the truck's design. "Krug would have survived the crash if not for the fire. But there shouldn't have been a fire," says Mick McBee, the attorney representing the family. After the Krugs threatened to sue General Motors, the pickup's manufacturer, the company settled out of court...