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I Found A Dog Chained To Drown In A Flood And Saving Her Almost Got Me Killed

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  I found her chained to a cinder block in three feet of floodwater, and somebody had put her there on purpose. The hurricane had hit two days before. I live in Louisiana, been through storms my whole life. This one was bad. Whole neighborhoods underwater. People evacuated. Roads closed. I was helping with search and rescue. Going house to house checking for people who didn’t get out in time. That’s when I heard her. A sound I’ll never forget. Not barking. Not howling. Just this desperate, broken whimpering coming from behind a burned-out house. I waded through the water. Debris everywhere. The house was destroyed. Roof caved in. Walls barely standing. And there she was. A white pit bull. Maybe a year old. Chained to a cinder block by her neck. The chain was only three feet long. The water was almost up to her chin. She was standing on her back legs, stretching as high as she could to keep her head above water. Shaking so hard I could see it from ten feet away. “Hey baby,” I said. ...
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I Took This Dog From A Man Who Was Beating Her With A Chain But Got Into Trouble Doing So

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  I took this dog from a man who was beating her with a chain. That was four months ago. I’ve been trying to earn her trust every single day since. Some days I think we’re getting somewhere. Then I reach for my coffee mug and she hits the floor like a bomb went off. Her name is Grace. I named her that because the shelter just called her “Female Pit Mix #4471.” She deserved better than a number. She deserved better than everything she got. I found her by accident. Detour through a neighborhood I’d never been in. Heard screaming from a backyard. Not human screaming. Worse. A man was standing over her with a tow chain. Swinging it like a bat. She was on the ground trying to crawl away but she had nowhere to go. I was in his yard before I knew what I was doing. Screaming at him. Calling 911 with one hand. Blocking her with my body. He got a citation. A fifty-dollar citation. She got a fractured hip, two broken ribs, and wounds so infected the vet said another week would have killed her...
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