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Help & Support
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Police Beat
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Activists tackle scourge of prescription drug abuse
In retrospect, Dorothy Rhodes wishes she had said something, anything, to her son. She knew that young people in their West Virginia community were dying, one after one, overdosing on prescription painkillers. But neither she nor anyone else spoke of … Read more on USA TODAY

Humbled Prater joins Lions at perfect time
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Nearly half of children experience trauma, creating potential for woeful …
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Depression: Are Comedy and Creativity Risk Factors?
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What Makes Depression So Deadly? Eight Reasons Why It's So Hard to Climb …
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Local hospitals want piece of B windfall
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Prescription drug use, abuse
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Experts: 'killer heroin' may be something else
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Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Counselor Training Now Online at Cazenovia …
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NC woman seeks funds to cover medical expenses
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Mark Patinkin tells of a mother's loss as addiction steals her daughter
They spent hours researching rehab places and settled on one in Deerfield Beach, Florida called Lifeskills. Sue was thrown to … Lifeskills was cheaper than top-dollar facilities, but a two-month stay there still cost $ 32,000, out of pocket. Kristen … Read more on The Providence Journal

Question by a person: Am I the only person who thinks the dog island is either stupid or a scam? The poor puppies!?
I really need to know what people think of this! This is madness! How could they do that to those dogs? Do you know that they could die? They act like that’s healthy, normal, and great! Disgusting! And some people’s good tax money is going there for funding? And then they have a whole CD where you can listen to a pack fight! A PACK FIGHT! Hello, that’s not making your dog happy! That’s giving it the death sentence and turning it into a monster! And have you heard thier cheesy philosophy? Idiotic! Pure stupidity! They compare our little puppies and all the love we give them to slavery! They talk about dogs like slaves, saying they should be free! And they lie! How is a little pomerainian or Chiwawa (pardon my spelling) supposed to catch, kill, and eat rodents? I could maybe understand if they were feeding and like rehabilitating the dogs (puppy rehab) and some scientists said that this would help them with violence issues or something, but no! Just some “dog lover”! Stop DogIsland!

Best answer:

Answer by jen
Dog Island is an urban legend. The website is a farce. According to www.snopes.com.

This is a direct quote from www.snopes.com:
The Dog Island site is a hoax playing on western revulsion of Asian dog-eating practices, and its creators deliberately used names identical to those of persons and companies in China who process dogs for human consumption (for example, the “Dawn Fine Bred Dog Center” of which Dog Island is supposedly a subsidiary, the city of Pexian, and the name “Han Fei” are all references to the Dawn Fine Bred Meat Dog Center, a commercial operation in China where dogs are raised for meat.

There is a place called Dog Island off the coast off the northern panhandle of Florida, but it’s not a canine sanctuary. Most of it is owned by the Nature Conservancy, and they work with the Barrier Island Trust to “preserve the island in its natural state.”

The whole Dog Island does sound a little fishy to me, but you needn’t worry… it’s all just a silly hoax. 🙂

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NC woman seeks funds to cover medical expenses
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Recap of Everything Maine Black Bears
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Rollins homers in 10th, Phillies beat Marlins 5-4
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