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AS ADOPTED WE
HAD A GREAT RUNNABBITS
FUNNY BUNNY AND 3 OTHER
RABBITS ADOPTED.
>> THAT IS BEAUTIFUL.
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY DAWN.
>> AND UKEE HAS ANOTHER GOODN.
NEWS STORY ABOUT AN ANIMAL
BEING ADOPTED.
>>> DAWN, NOW AN HAPPY END TO
GO A STORY WE FIRST TOLD ON
YOU "EYEWITNESS NEWS".
REMEMBER THE ABANDONED DOG
WITHOUT BORN WITH FRONT LEGS.
TONIGHT, SHE HAS FUND LOVING
HOME WITH RICHARD AND VALERIE
OF SOUTHER TON, MONTGOMERY
COUNTY.
DOZENS OF PEOPLE CONTACTED THE
PENNSYLVANIA SP, AFTER
SEEING THE STORY ABOUT RU
WHICH IS SHORT FOR KANGAROO.
THEY CHOSE THIS FAMILY WHO
HAVE OTHER PETS WITH
DISABI SAY THEY HOPE
TO GIVE HIMEW INDEPENDENT.
>> WE JUSON TV AND
SAID, WE JUS WOULD LOVE TO
HAVE HER.
AND, JUST T TO B
A SET
WHEELS,ND LE BE MORE
MOBILE, AND INDEPENDENT, YOU
KNOW.
THAT IS WHAT SHE WILL BE.
>> THAT IS GREAT.
SHE'LL NEED A FEW MORE SHOTS
AND THEN HEADING HOME WITH THE
FAMILY FOR GOOD.
>>> ALL RIGHT.
THE NEW LUGGAGE SCREENING
RULES, COME TO OUR WEBSITE AND
SCROLL DOWN TO THE NEWS LINK
SECTION AND CLICK ON WHERE YOU
SEE "BAG PACKING TIPS."
>> A SPECIAL NEEDS DOG HAS
FOUND A SPECIAL HOME JUST
>> READY, HERE WE GO!
>> Reporter: THIS IS UPON CHO,
THE TWO LEGGED DOG.
HE HAS CAPTURED HEARTS OF
PEOPLE AT THE SPCA.
OLD.S FOUND NEAR A DUMPSTER
HE SPENT MONTHS IN A FOSTER
HOME.
NOW, HE HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY
PO RON NEIS LI IWNER AFTER
THERY.
STHANI
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UNTILET APTED.(STAYING
IS 105-POUND BULOG IS
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>> WHEN THE 2 REUNITE THE
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GETS AUNDTTY E
ON 3( L
THE SPCA SAYS THI BIG
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TH'VER WORKED WIT
HE LOVES DOGS.
)[ LES CS.
HEOVESIDS.
'S TT.
>> BUT HE WL NEED 1 MORE
SURGERYEFORE HE CANO HOME
>>S FAC YETTHER
SURGERYAR, B W HOPE
AT, U
OUT OFOODS A THAT.
>> WE LOVE THISOG SOH,ND
WELLY WANT TO SEE HIM GET
PECI HOME BAUSE H
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NOW ON AXC
INVESTAIO
GO.
ORY.HIMELL FSTKE THIS
S RANGEE LEST W.
FROM SICK TO WORSE.
SOMEH PNEUMON SO SEVERE,
THEY C BARELY BREATHE.
CAG THE MUSCLES TO
THE CONDITIS AT THEUB PIS
PET STORE AND BAD
DERTMEND TM
>> I THINK IS A GOOD T
THEYEICALLY THEAY
>> RORT@ TOVE CSE
THE PET SRE CESER NUMEROT CASES
IN WHICH CUSTOMERS WERE
ALLEGEDLY SOLD SK O DYING
T B @INESHA
CAN.
TREEP ETHING
HEALTH
>>EPORTER: THEYN THE
R HAND DISAGREES AND HAS
RED OER C GIE'S
OR
)DDE TO A LIST OF ANIMAL
CRLTY CHARGES HE FESN
TH PYLVAA AEW
I WASED
HE GXACTLYHAT H
DE.
>> REPTER CUSMERS LIKE
MAE A E $15 FOR A BULLDOG
OM CHUCKNLOATCH I
E EEE LER.
MARY SPHARON IS
ING.
UK GHRIE.S ISHE END FOR
>> ABOUT TIME.
OULD H DONE S DOGSHOULDN HAD T
SU.
ELL THEND FOR CCKY
GUTHE?
SOMEUSTOMERS FEAR I WON.
IN FT, H H A H OF
MOVI ACROSS STATE LES AND
STTING ALL OVER AGA.
INORTHEAST PHILADELPA,
SHILL, NBC 10
> AVE BREAKGTED AT AN ILLEGAL
PIT BULL SITE LAST SPRING.
THDOG FIGHT IS ON TAPE.
>> THESE ARE THE TWO PIT BULLS
THAT WERE IN THE RING WHEN
POLICE BUSTED THE ILLEGAL DOG
FIGHT. THE 2 DOGS HAD BEEN AT IT FOR >>E WAS JUST THERE, NO WILL
-- NO MORE WILL, NOTHING.
HE WAS JUST SITTING THEREE
PLEASE TAKE ME AWAY.
>> THE RAID ON A NORTH
PHILADELPHIA GARAGE LAST APRIL
NETTED A DOZEN DOGS SCARRED
FROM FIGHTING AND MORE THAN 80
ARRESTS INCLUDING 2
PHILADELPHIA COPS.
I SWRAK FON TAIN AND CRAIG
THOMAS WILL STAND TRIAL ON
CRUELTY CHARGES.
>> IT'S EXTREMELY CRUEL.
I MEAN TO PAY MONEY
WATCHDGHT TO THE DEATH
AND MALL EACH OTHER IS NOT
SOMETHING THAT I CAN
COMPREHEND.
>> THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAYS
THE COPS DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE
AT A DOG FIGHT.
>> THERE WAS 80 PEOPLE IN
THERE.
MUSIC IS BLAIRING.
THEY THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE
GOING IN AN AFTER-HOURS
DRINKING AND A BIG-TIME PART
>> THE O POLICE OFFICERS
COULD BE SENNCED TO SEVERAL
YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED.
AFTER THE TRIAL, ALL OF THE
DOGS WILL BE PUT TO SLEEP.
>> THEY HAVE TO BE DESTROYED
BECAUSE THEY ARE TRAINED TO
FIGHT EACH OTHER, TO KILL EACH
OTHER.
MARGIE SMITH, 2 2 FORME
HIA
POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED IN AN
ILLEGAL DOG FIGHTING RING.
CRAIG THOMAS AND FROM THE
FORCE AFTER BEING CHARGED WIT
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND
CONSPIRACY TO DAY PROSE
BROUGHT 2 OF THE BADLY INJURED
DOGSNTO COURT.
CHRISTIAN FAR HAS THE STORY.
>> Reporter: FORMER
PHILADELPHIA POLICE OFFICERS
CRAIG THOMAS HAD FEW WORD FOR
HI
FEWER WORD FOR THE MEDIA.
FORMER PHILADELPHIA POLICE
OFFICERS ISAAC FOUNTAIN ALSO
WOULDN'T COMMENT.
BACK IN APRIL BOTH OFFICERS
WEREMONG 81 PEOPLE W WERE
CHARGED WITH TAKG PART IN AN
E.LEGAL DOG FIGHTING RING AT
RIGHT AFTER THEIR ARREST
FOUNTAIN AND THOMAS WERE BOTH
FIRED FROM THE POLICE FORCE.
>> THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE
GOING IN AN AFTER HOURS
DRINKING, AND BIG TIME PARTY.
>> Reporter: JACK MCMAHON THE
ATTORNEY FOR BOTH MEN SAID HIS
CLIENTS HAD IN CLUE THEY WERE
GOING TO A DOG FIGHT BUT
DURINGMAS'S
PRELIMINARY HEARING AN UNDER
COVER OFFICER TESTIFIED HE
SPOKE TO FOUNTAIN ABOUT THE
DOG FIGHT HOURS BEFORE IT
HAPPENED.
>> THEY WERE IN THE IN THERE
AN HOUR AND A HALF.
THOMAS WAS IN THERE A MINOR
MINUTE AND A HALF BEFORE THIS
POLICE CAME BRICK NOTHING.
HE DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING>> UNLESSS
WHEN YOU ENTERED THE GARAGE
AND DIDN'T NOTICE 12 BY 16
FOOT PIT IN FRONT OF YOU WERE
PIT BUSY DON'T SEE HOW.
>> Reporter: PROSECUTING
ATTORNEY ANN MARIE COIL
BROUGHT 2 OF THE 11 PIT BULLS
INVOLVED IN COURT.
ONE OF THOSE DOGS HAD SEVERE
SCARS ON ITS
PART OF THE FOOT AMPUTATED.
BECAUSE THEY ARE BREAD TO
FIGHT THESE PIT BULLS ARE TOO
DANGEROUS TO BE ADOPTED SO
L 7 TO BE PUT DOWN.
COIL BELIEVES THAT EVIDENCE,
PLUS TODAY'S TESTIMONY, FORCED
THE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND
NSPIRACY CHARGES THESE 2 MEN
FOUNTAIN AND BROWN WILL BE IN
BACK IN COURT TO BE
REARRANED ON THOSE REDUCED
CHARGES.
THEIR ATTORNEY BELIEVES THEY
SHOULD GO TO TRIAL SOMETIME
THIS FALL.
NOW WITH BOTH MEN ARE
CONVICTED ON THOSE CHARGES
EY COULD FACE CLOSE TO 15
GOOD EVENING.BARS.WCAU
>> OUR TOP STORY ON NEWS 10 AT
5, THE EXPLODING PITBULL
SERIOUS THREAT TONIGHT AND A
EN EXPERT SAYS IT'S NO LONGER
A CRIME LIMITED TO CERTAIN
NEIGHBORHOOD.
12 YEAR OLD WAS RELEASED FROM