Yesterday animal control officer Sharon Norton of Brookhaven, a small city in Mississippi located about 60 miles south of Jackson, responded to a tip about a dog abandoned on the side of a remote road with a recliner chair and tossed TV.

Her family say she asked the dog’s owners if it was okay to stroke it (Picture: SWNS) Kiera needed three hours of surgery after a large chunk of her lip was ripped off (Picture: SWNS)Her grandmother Sharon Young, 57, said: ‘They told her the dog was child-friendly and had been told it was fine to stroke, so she petted it.

(Picture: PA)When retired civil servant Sharon Warnock was living in China, she came across a Facebook page that documented animals trapped in the dog meat industry. Sharon wants to help other dogs like Henry come out of the meat trade industry and has set up a Go Fund Me page.

Reward offered to reunite Albi with autistic child (Image: Sharon Morton) Blonde-haired Mollie Matthews cannot come to terms with the way that two-year-old Albi the poodle-terrier cross has vanished out of her life.

Monty the Pug next to the eight-inch kebab stick (Picture: Sharon Vanderhook/SWNS) The eight-inch kebab stick pierced his diaphragm and lungs (Picture: Sharon Vanderhook/SWNS)‘I was saying “sit, sit!” and I just thought he was in a strop ignoring me.