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Article: Love awaits -- and barks and meows and squeaks: Montgomery animal shelter specializes in finding homes for all sorts of creatures.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2007
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Byline: Rona Marech
Mar. 19--ROCKVILLE -- It's not easy being a pit bull -- even a sweet pit bull with floppy ears and a sleek coat the color of maple syrup.
Sometimes 3-year-old Hazel stands alert, tail pumping, eyes bright, and other times, she doesn't even bother to look up at visitors to the Montgomery County Animal Shelter. Either way, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Hopeful pet owners walk by slowly. Maybe they peer into her cage, maybe they pause. Then, usually, they keep walking, stooping to coo at some fluff ball. Lucky pets go outside for a proper meet, greet and belly scratch, and the luckiest eventually walk out the door ...