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Saving the Abandoned: Lost Dogs of the Desert Helps Animals Left Behind in the East Valley

by Christina Lange March 25th, 2013December 16th, 2020

Ann Field and I stand on a dusty lot on Avenue 81. We’re in Oasis, south of Thermal and close to Highway 86. We’re watching for two dogs that have been abandoned and are running around the neighborhood. As the sun starts to set, there they are—only instead of two dogs, there are now four. […]

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