PAWS & CLAWS

Catch of the day

Little lab Lucy loves fishing. Owner Cristi Speaks of Lake Highlands snapped this shot at an EastTexas farm not long after the pup was rescued from a dumpster by Speaks’s husband, a Dallas firefighter. “He received a 911 call that there was a puppy trapped in a garbage bin,” she says. “They went to check it out and didn’t see anything. Then they heard a noise coming from a tiny diaper box behind the dumpster. [Lucy] was inside. She was only 6 pounds and barely 8-weeks-old. My husband took her back to the station where she spent the night in his bed. And the rest is history!”

PUPPY MILL OWNERS ARE DECEPTIVE.

They pose as caring breeders when you buy puppies online, at trade days, or in parking lots. They don’t want you to know the truth. They’ll never invite you cages, producing litter after litter until they die of neglect or disease. You’ll never see behind the scenes. But we have, and if you knew what we know, you’d never support this cruel industry. Don’t buy it.