Then she'd be tempted to make every abused, lost, unwanted dog, cat, llama, ferret, and whatever else landed on her doorstep into a personal pet.

Frank adopts an abused, half-frozen dog he finds during a snowstorm.

The abused dogs were placed in foster or adoptive homes.

I didn't really see Devon as an "abused" or rescued dog.

Johansson also owned a dog shelter for abused dogs and she also was an occasional bartender at events in Sweden.

In 2011, on the program's first anniversary, the Chicago Sun-Times wrote about two abused dogs who were rehabilitated and adopted through the program.

The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a trilogy about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog.

Trudy and Frank Madden adopted the abused dog Naylor had seen.

When the sisters liberated the children, at first they moved around the room cowering, like skittish, abused dogs.

"He was an abused dog, and a professional trainer probably wouldn't have taken him," Mr. Berloni said.