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You are shopping in the local grocery store with your child who suddenly yells

excitedly to you: “Look!!! Puppy!!!!!!” You see a dog in the store, maybe vested, maybe

not, walking calmly beside the cart or beside its owner, first thought in your head: “aww cute

pup!!” Now what do you do? Your child wants to pet it, and you walk over to it, wanting to

pet this dog. Please don’t. Please stop. That cute pup is working. It has a very important job

to do, even if you don’t know what it is.

A service dog is specifically trained to help its owner mitigate his or her disability.

You may not know what the owner’s disability is, after all, he or she isn’t in a wheelchair!

He or she isn’t blind! Well, in some cases, that is true, not all disabilities are visible. That

Boomer, ‘tweenie’ Dachshund, needs home.

chihuahua or Great Dane (or any type of dog that has been specially trained as a service dog)

Boomer, a black, super-sweet, 3 year-old

might be a seizure alert dog or might be a diabetes alert dog, or maybe it is for panic and

neutered male, a 9 lb. ‘tweenie’ Dachshund,

anxiety or PTSD, so if you distract the dog, it will take its focus off its handler and might

will be at our adoption Saturday, at the Pet “Puggles is a beautiful, 8 mo, black with tan miss an upcoming seizure or change in glucose, or you might be the cause of a panic/anxiety

Supermarket in Inverness, 10:00-12:00 brindle, n.m. Pug, He is very loving, has lots attack resulting it its handler to not have enough time to get to a safe location or take his or

noon. A Humane Society of Central FL. of puppy energy, enjoys playing with chew her medicine. Please respect the person on the other end of the leash. Do not ask what the

Pet Rescue, Inc. does applications, inter- toys, car rides and walks. Crate trained disability is, or get upset if the person does not want to stop and chat or allow you to pet his

views, home visits prior to adoption. There- and mostly housebroken. Reduced dona- or her dog.

fore, we adopt only to the Citrus County or tion fees. A Humane Society of CENTRAL

The dog is a four pawed, furry piece of loved medical equipment who is saving its

near-by area. If you must re-home a small FLORIDA Pet Rescue, Inc. does home vis- partner’s life daily, who is legally allowed to be with its partner where ever its partner needs

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dog, phone 352-527-9050, leave your name, its prior to adoptions, therefore, we only to go, just like a wheel chair or oxygen tank. It is against state and federal law to distract,

phone number and 093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446

5 a message for a return

adopt to the Citrus County and adjoining interrupt, harass, harm, tease, hurt or kill a service dog and/or its handler, punishable with

Phone: (352) 489-4588 Fax: (727) 362-4788

areas. See this dog and other little dogs at jail time and/or fines up to and sometimes more than $50,000. For more information on state

Email, Tom Russell,needed thenewscaster1@gmail.com

our Saturday adoptions, at Pet Supermarket, and federal law pertaining to service animals, see next week’s edition of The Newscaster for

Email, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmail.com

Inverness, 10-12 noon. If you must give up my next article.

ewscasterat Animal Services

Emaciated horses euthanized in

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The goal is to help residents feed your little dog, phone 527.9050, leave your

name, number and information.

their pets. Call 352-746-8400.

cruelty to animals case

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pounds underweight. The report stated that

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the ribs of four other horses on the property

Diebold, 53, 7280 S. Sunny-

were showing, although Diebold stated she

view Pt., Homosassa was ar-

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fed the horses well, and the horses should

rested by the Citrus County

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look that way in the hot summer we’ve had,

Sheriff s Office, Aug. 29,

and being close to thirty years old (the vet-

charged with two counts of

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misdemeanor cruelty to ani- Diebold

erinarian stated their ages were about twenty

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years old). She also said she’d not had time

mals (bond set at $1,000). The

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to get veterinary care for the horses.

deputy reported that the animal control of-

The report stated that two stalls of

ficer had been told by a local veterinarian

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a steel paddock where she keeps the horses

that two malnourished and emaciated horses

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“had an enormous amount of horse ma-

had to be euthanized due to their condition.

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nure mixed with hay on the floors and did

Their ribs, hip bones and spines were clearly

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not look as if it had been mucked out in a

visible, and their hooves were unkept.

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The animal control officer had told

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The veterinarian expressed concern

Dierbold, in May, that the horses needed vet-

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for the other horses in the field due to their

erinary care, and a veterinarian had noted on

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rib cages being visible.

Jan. 5 (2013) that one of the horses was 200

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Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps low-income families with

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