When I first met Lucy, I almost missed her. She was pressed so far back into her kennel that you’d think she believed she could make herself invisible. Other dogs trampled past her—not out of malice, ...

I’ve been in a lot of shelters, but what I found in Chula Vista stopped me in my tracks. Tucked into the farthest corner of a kennel barely big enough for a human to sit in, a tiny Chihuahua mix was ...