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Post by Eleanor Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:11 pm

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Post by LyndaW Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:19 pm

No I didn't either. Poor dogs. Reminds me of the dogs that were used to turn the spits of meat over open fires a few hundred years earlier.
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Post by Eleanor Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:25 pm

Not so sure that simply providing them with a bowl of water meets the standards of animal welfare, as the article mentions. Thankfully this practice doesn't still exist!
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Post by Caryll Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:51 pm

Good lord, poor little dogs!
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Post by Eleanor Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:57 pm

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