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Humane Society says community support takes sting out of theft
Director grateful for backing after donations taken; thieves still at large
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David Weber and Lorene Castillo take their dog Baby Blue to the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia Thursday afternoon to get an identification chip implanted. Recently two men broke into the shelter and stole a large donation box full of money.
When Julie Edwards, executive director of the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia, heard there was a break-in at the shelter, her first concern was the animals. “My first thing when our adoption center director called me early that Monday morning was ‘Are all the animals there?’” she said. “We didn’t know for a long time, because we had to wait for police to clear the building.