No place to go Bringing the story home - Animal Humane Society
No place to go Bringing the story home - Animal Humane Society
No place to go Bringing the story home - Animal Humane Society
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What if?<br />
A world without <strong>the</strong> A<br />
Peaches<br />
Dunbar Sunny<br />
10 • ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY MAGAZINE WINTER 2009/10 • www.animalhumanesociety.org<br />
By Bridgette Bornstein<br />
Dunbar, a two-year-old cat, was alone and suffering when a young woman<br />
found him and brought him <strong>to</strong> Golden Valley. His right rear ankle had sustained<br />
damage and it was clear he needed medical treatment…<br />
A young Lab mix named Sunny needed a <strong>home</strong>. When he arrived at a<br />
Fergus Falls shelter, it was overcrowded and <strong>the</strong>re was no space for him…<br />
Peaches, a pit bull mix, was left <strong>to</strong> die in a kennel on <strong>the</strong> side of <strong>the</strong><br />
road in rural Washing<strong>to</strong>n County. When <strong>the</strong> local sheriff found her, she<br />
was covered with burn marks and it was clear she had tried <strong>to</strong> chew her<br />
way out of <strong>the</strong> kennel…<br />
Since 1878, AHS has been helping animals in Minnesota and <strong>the</strong> people<br />
who love <strong>the</strong>m. But what if AHS didn’t exist? The communities in which<br />
we live could be quite different. And what would happen <strong>to</strong> animals like<br />
Dunbar, Sunny and Peaches?