{"id":62270,"date":"2025-06-02T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62270"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:24:30","slug":"on-the-side-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62270","title":{"rendered":"On the side of the"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-45.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-45-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was driving along County Road 12 when I spotted four muddied boxer puppies huddled near a ditch. I was late for a meeting, but something made me stop. No sign of their mother, only a crumpled box and one pup with a yellow collar. The handwritten tag read: \u201cNot Yours.\u201d I shivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took them home, bathed them, and called my vet-tech friend, Tate. He scanned the yellow-collared pup\u2014it had a chip registered at a clinic that hadn\u2019t updated its records in years. Tate\u2019s face darkened. \u201cThis may be tied to dogfighting,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kept the puppies hidden. Days later, two men arrived late at night, whispering outside my door. \u201cThey were probably found by a kid,\u201d one muttered. \u201cWe\u2019ll find them if they\u2019re still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrified, I hid in the bathroom and texted my neighbor to call the sheriff. Deputy Ruiz was skeptical\u2014until I connected the collar to a lost dog named Max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week later, Ruiz led a raid. They uncovered a breeding and fighting operation. Max was rescued\u2014injured, but alive. Justice, at last, had begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62192\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving along County Road 12 when I spotted four muddied boxer puppies huddled near a ditch. I was late for a meeting, but something made&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62272,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62270\/revisions\/62272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}