If I'd had a 'friend' like this,

well, how pissed would YOU be?
A soldier who returned from Afghanistan last week only wanted to see his 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, Oakley. 

Instead, Brandon Harker discovered the so-called “friend” he’d asked to watch his dog while he was deployed for nine months had decided to either give him away or sell him.


Hadn't really thought of it that way, but it really IS a domestic-violence industry, isn't it?
More here. 
Which reminded me of this, and this.


In a major city.  Critically injured by a pack of feral dogs.