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Hi my name is Christina Vierling and i'm in 8th grade and i'm 14 years old. I think animal abuse is a huge problem. When we got our dog Bailey, she was four weeks old. The 'breeder' brought her out and when put her on my moms lap, she ran away. Although she was very anti-social, we decided to adopt her anyway. The next day we brought her to the vet to find out she was clinically depressed, malnourished, and she had a cut on her stomach the size of your index finger. We later found out from our vet that a lot of other people had adopted animals from this breeder, and they all had health and social problems. When we called the breeder back to tell her about Baileys problems. She never returned our calls, but we kept her anyway. Today Bailey is four years old and she's happy and healthy.