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Earlier this month, CNN's champion for animals, Jane Velez-Mitchell, featured the story of Alice. You may know Alice as "the dog in the box," a pit bull in Toombs County, Georgia, who was found living in squalor in a makeshift box of wood slats and sheets of tin.
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, who discovered Alice, believes cruelty charges are in order. More than 26,000 Change.org community members agree. But Toombs County officials continue to insist that there wasn't really anything wrong with the picture. They won't even launch an investigation to determine if cruelty and neglect laws were broken.
Velez-Mitchell said, "We're talking about one dog here, and she's symbolic, however, of what's happening all over the country." And what's happening is that animals like Alice are suffering and cruelty laws are either non-existant or not being enforced.
Alvie Kight, Toombs County Sheriff, told CNN affiliate HLN that if the dog had bones sticking out or "appeared feverish," they would have taken her that night. According to Scott Bennett, director of SoCo Rescue, the county's Chief Magistrate, Judge John Matheson, looked at Alice's photos and said, "There's no tears in her eyes. If she was sick, there'd be tears. Sick dogs have tears."
Despite the lack of tears and cold sweats, when SoCo Rescue was finally able to obtain a copy of the receipt from Alice's long overdue vet appointment, it was confirmed that she does have heartworm, which is fatal if untreated. The receipt doesn't show that any medication was purchased.
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