Reservation dogs
The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, a dog scours a shopping center parking lot on the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, N.M. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
Jeri Clausing Associated Press
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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, a dog searches for food along a highway median on the Navajo Nation in Tohatchi, N.M. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
Jeri Clausing Associated Press
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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, volunteer Angela Baxter carries a dog from a spay-neuter clinic in Gallup, N.M. to another volunteer's horse trailer for transport back to its family on the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
Jeri Clausing Associated Press
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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, a puppy is held at the Gallup Humane Society in Gallup, N.M., after being quarantined with other healthy dogs for shipment to Colorado for adoption. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
Jeri Clausing Associated Press
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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, volunteer Angela Baxter plays with a dog that had just been spayed during a weekly spay-neuter clinic near the Navajo Nation in Gallup, N.M. Baxter had rescued the dog from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Gallup. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
Jeri Clausing Associated Press
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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, an unidentified family drops three dogs at a Navajo Nation animal shelter in Fort Defiance, Ariz. for euthanasia after the dogs attacked a neighbor's sheep. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.
Jeri Clausing Associated Press