Animal cruelty is everyone's problem

Anyone who has ever loved a dog intuits the unfathomable cruelty of isolating a dog and leaving him on a chain for his entire life. Anyone who has ever lived next door to a hopeful puppy brought home to its new life on a chain, or in a kennel, knows the heart-wrenching sound of a puppy who cries, and cries, and cries, until it doesn’t. This practice, cruel and inhumane as it is, still happens all over the country.

My personal experience with animal abuse has been primarily in Gary, Indiana, a city I lived in and loved for 25 years.