Community Focus: We need to speak out against animal cruelty

Picture yourself in this situation. You’ve just pulled up to your local garbage disposal site. You’re ready to unload whatever you brought with you. And there, amongst the foul smells and the many items of junk and debris, the things people didn’t want anymore, is a dog. But not just any dog — a very young, very small puppy. A puppy too young and too helpless to survive even a few days in an environment like that.

What do you do?

Fortunately, for the dog that would eventually be named Otis, that is the situation my father-in-law, Dick Slonaker found himself in last week at the dum...