Shelter Dogs...

Here's another on shelter dogs, from the archives.

(This blog originally posted on 9/20/2006.)

I've said it before. I'll say it again, and again, and again... Adult dogs that are relinquished to shelters are there for a reason.

As Valerie DeSwart found out, too late.

DOG-HORROR SUIT - ADOPTED BEAST A KILLER By JEANE
MacINTOSH and ANDY GELLER.

September 19, 2006 -- A New Jersey woman paid $300 to an animal shelter to
have her Doberman pinscher destroyed after it bit her on the face and head,
inflicting terrifying wounds that required 58 stitches.

But three months later, when Renee Langhaar heard on the news that a
Doberman had savagely killed a 67-year-old woman who adopted him from the same
Newark shelter, she knew her dog was responsible.