50,000 abandoned dogs roaming streets of Detroit in packs, And 700,000 Starving neglected Black people, but that's not news

50,000 abandoned dogs roaming streets of Detroit in packs

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FUTABA, JAPAN - APRIL 12: An abandoned dog is seen within the exclusion zone, about 6km away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, on April 12, 2011 in Futaba Town , Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Japan's nuclear agency today confirmed that the crisis alert level has been raised to level 7, indicating a level of radiation equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images)

 

Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News 15 hours agoThe Sideshow PetsDetroit

Thousands of stray dogs, including the one in this image, are reportedly roaming the streets of Detroit. (AP)

Packs of wild, abandoned dogs are roaming the streets of Detroit, leaving city officials overwhelmed at the prospect of handing an issue that raises both animal rights and safety concerns.

“It was almost post-apocalyptic, where there are no businesses, nothing except people in houses and dogs running around,” the Humane Society of the United States director Amanda Arrington told Bloomberg News about a recent visit to Detroit. “The suffering of animals goes hand in hand with the suffering of people.”