When animal control officers found a dog abandoned in a cat carrier on a freezing night in New Jersey, rescuers could barely see the dog’s face. Her coat was so matted that rescuers couldn’t tell her sex or breed, and a veterinarian shaved a portion of fur just to reach the dog’s skin with a needle.

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