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What kind of person dumps a puppy onto the street?

The other day, a young woman with her daughter in the car stopped and dumped a little female puppy. She made a U-turn, almost ran over this puppy. Not bad enough, little puppy started running down the street trying to catch up with her. She was driving a brand new white car with no tags.

The puppy we brought in, rescued her and she is now at the Animal Compassion Team no-kill shelter. She has pretty blue eyes and they named her Sapphire. She is very smart and loving.

I don’t understand how someone can do this horrible act of dumping a dog, when there are so many no-kill shelters in our town. We would have kept her, but we already have three dogs, all rescued.

Thank you, ACT.

Penny Sweazy, Fresno

This story was originally published June 27, 2017 at 1:34 PM with the headline "What kind of person dumps a puppy onto the street?."

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