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Dog Found With Mouth Taped Shut, Tongue Out
In yet extraordinary case of animal cruelty in the Dallas – Forth Worth area, a woman found a dog with its mouth taped and its tongue protruding severely from between its teeth. Melanie Labrake spotted the animal, a young pug mix, along a rural road in Parker County, west of Fort Worth. She stopped to try to help it, but the animal darted into a grassy field through a barbed wire fence. She contacted local authorities who spent several hours searching for the dog. They finally found it and turned it over to local animal control.
The dog, now named Hope, was taken to Bowie Drive Animal Hospital where she is undergoing treatment thanks to Dr. Kevin Buchanan.
Vets at the clinic said it took more than 100 internal and external stitches to close five open wounds that were one- to five-inches in length, through the muscle tissue. Doctors said that Hope’s mouth was taped shut for more than 24 hours and that she will likely lose a portion of her tongue.
Originally unable to eat or drink, Hope underwent surgery and was given pain killers an IV and antibiotics. Fears that she may not be able to eat or drink on her own have subsided as doctors at the animal hospital said Wednesday morning that Hope has been eating and appears to be getting better.
Several local businesses have established a reward fund for information leading to the suspect or suspects in Hope’s abuse. In total, the fund now stands at $35,000.
Anyone with information about Hope is asked to call the Parker County Sheriff’s Department at (817) 596-8845 or the Parker County Crime Stoppers Hotline at (817) 599-5555.
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Angela Gonzales (Hopi), Associate Professor of Development Sociology and American Indian Studies at Cornell University, has started a new blog to chronicle her goal of raising $10,000 for the Hopi Cancer Assistance Fund (HCAF).
To promote interest in her quest, Angela will bike 1,539 miles from Bellingham, WA, to Ventura, CA, beginning September 25, 2012.
Learn more about Angela’s motivation to raise support for the HCAF by visiting her blog, Angela Bikes 4 Hopi. Also, please consider giving financially to this worthy cause.
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Quote of the Day
“Well, I think there was a blind spot. You know, like it or not, if you read the Bible, in the Old Testament, slavery was permitted. You’d go into a nation – or, I shouldn’t say you – a nation would go into another nation and enslave the population, and those people were put to work.”
– Pat Robertson, responding to a question about slavery on “The 700 Club,” while proving at the same time how screwed up he and the Christian Bible are.
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Video of the Day
A baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Minnesota Twins at the Ballpark in Arlington Stadium in Arlington, TX, yesterday afternoon was delayed after a major clap of thunder announced the potential arrival of storm. Officials cleared the field for player safety, but as is evident from this clip, some of the players scrambled for cover immediately.
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Pictures of the Day
When students at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, learned that members of the Westboro Baptist Church planned a protest at the funeral of a soldier who was killed in active duty, they formed a “maroon wall” around the church to shelter the family and friends of the fallen soldier. The university’s colors are maroon and white. Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, a Texas A&M alumnus, passed away on June 28, after being shot during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, NC. The Westboro gang has made it a habit of protesting at military funerals, claiming that troop deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are God’s retribution for America’s tolerance of abortion, homosexuality and other sins. In the end, though, they didn’t show up at A&M. One of these days, however, they’re going to protest at the wrong funeral and end up leaving in body bags. Then, we’ll all know that there is a God!
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Picture of the Day
“Shelton” and “Scott” hold a banner showing their opposition on the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act or SB 2109 at the Council Chambers in Window Rock, AZ, on July 5, 2012. Photo courtesy of Donovan Shortey.
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