$25,000 reward offered in abused puppy case
Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Dr. Danielle Wharton, an emergency veterinary, cares for a 12-week-old male pitbull after it was tied up in a plastic bag and thrown out of a car in Islip town, at Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island, West Islip. (Aug. 13, 2012)
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Outrage and puppy love has fueled the reward -- $25,000 so far -- in the case of the pit bull puppy whose neck was fractured after someone stuffed him in a plastic bag and flung him from a car in Brentwood on Saturday.
The story of Joey -- screaming in pain, malnourished and used perhaps as dogfighting bait -- has led to one of the biggest bounties in a Long Island animal abuse case. Investigators...
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