Domestic Violence Shelter Opens Doors to Pets After Heroic Dog Protects Owner

"One courageous dog is changing the lives of women and their families at the Rose Brooks Center for domestic violence in Kansas City. Last year, a woman called the center after being brutally beaten with a hammer by her boyfriend. She may have died, she said, if it wasn’t for her dog, a Great Dane, who jumped in the middle of the ruckus and protected his owner before the man threw both the dog and the woman out a second story window. In the past, the Rose Brooks Center didn’t accept animals, but after the woman refused to abandon her dog — who she called “her angel” — the center reconsidered, thus changing the tide for many women in the area who find themselves choosing between their lives and that of their animals."
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