Pointing dog breeds were originally bred as gundogs, typically used for finding game. When a pointing dog sniffs out game, they go “on point”, freezing in position, lifting a paw and aiming their nose ...

What kind of person takes a prized, purebred hunting dog and leaves it for dead at the animal shelter? Worse yet, three hunting dogs? That’s the question Megan Villarreal was asking in May of 2005.

When Ruth Thompson accepts animals at her no-kill shelter, it's typically because they're stray, abandoned or retrieved from an animal cruelty case. But every so often, Thompson, who runs the A.N.N.A.