A news story I could hardly believe

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A sharp-eyed officer at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, noticed that one of two dogs brought back from Colombia by a British couple looked ill. The animals were X-rayed and it was found that someone had literally stitched 21 canisters of drugs in their stomachs. I am not exactly an animal rights activist; and I am not easily shocked; but there are things that one does not imagine... unless one has a very, very sick imagination... It is just the thought of taking something that has no defence, a creature that is utterly dependent on you, and making it suffer, exposing it to a possible painful death (imagine if one of those canisters had ruptured), for no better reason than your own vile greed. I hope the carriers (who must have known what they were bearing) and their suppliers spend a good long time in prison. Someone who could do that to a dog could do it to a baby.