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Alaqua Animal Refuge is looking after 20 Catahoula leopard dogs who are recovering from neglect and malnutrition

Walton County Animal Services and the Walton County Sheriff's Department helped the refuge rescue the dogs from a backyard breeder

"The animals had been living in filth with little food, no clean water, and no shelter," Alaqua Animal Refuge said of the conditions where the dogs were found

Twenty Catahoula leopard dogs are recovering from "deplorable" conditions at a backyard breeder.

According to Alaqua Animal Refuge , a no-kill rescue in Walton County, Fla., the organization received a call several months ago from a backyard breeder, whose identity was not disclosed, asking for help feeding his dogs. After Alaqua heard that over a dozen dogs were under the m

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