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‘Miracle': Humane Rescue Alliance searching for person who shot dog in DC
The Humane Rescue Alliance is trying to find the person who shot Louisa, a sweet brown and white pit-type dog well-known and well-liked by people in her D.C. neighborhood, who has miraculously survived a gunshot to her head. An X-ray shows the bullet that entered her head, grazed her tongue, traveled through her throat and ended up in her...
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‘Miracle': Humane Rescue Alliance searching for person who shot dog in DC
The Humane Rescue Alliance is trying to find the person who shot a well-liked dog in a Southeast D.C. neighborhood. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.
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DC dog survives gunshot between eyes
A dog named Louisa survived after someone shot her in the face in D.C., and authorities are searching for the person responsible. The young tan and white dog, described as a “pit bull-type,” strayed from her home near Eli Place Southeast on Wednesday, Sept. 11. When Louisa showed up at home two days later, her owners saw she was shot…
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Dogs rescued after standoff, shooting in DC get forever homes
The 31 dogs at the heart of a violent hours-long standoff in D.C. are now counting on the open hearts of prospective new owners to give them a fresh start.
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Rescued dogs get forever homes after 13-hour standoff, shooting in DC
Some of the nearly three dozen dogs rescued from a D.C. home in February now have their new forever homes. News4’s Derrick Ward has more on the families who took them in.
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Former HRA volunteers claim they were let go after raising concerns about shelter conditions
Former volunteers of Human Rescue Alliance in Washington, D.C., say they were let go after raising concerns about inhumane living conditions at shelters, and they claim they are being retaliated against. A woman who says she’s a former HRA sent News4 video that she says was shot inside the organization’s New York Avenue shelter in September and is an...
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Ex-volunteers make accusations against HRA
Several former Humane Rescue Alliance volunteers say they were told their services were no longer needed after they raised concerned about inhumane conditions at shelters. News4’s Drew Wilder talked with some of the volunteers who claim they are being retaliated against.
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Outdoor cat and rat hunter goes missing from Foggy Bottom
People who live in Foggy Bottom are growing concerned about an outdoor neighborhood cat named Kitty Snows. She’s a cat trained by the Humane Rescue Alliance to help fight the rodent population. News4’s Derrick Ward has details on where residents think she may be.
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48 dogs in 48 hours: DC animal rescue group seeking adoptive homes
The Humane Rescue Alliance (HRA) is urging the D.C. community to help place 48 dogs from its shelters into new homes within 48 hours. The HRA is seeing what they called an “unprecedented increase” in animal intakes, with intakes up 40% since last year, the group said Thursday. HRA is caring for more than 145 adoptable dogs and calling on…