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Starving dogs lead police to raid pet grooming school
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Oct. 15, 2003
ODAWARA, Kanagawa -- Police have raided a pet grooming school under suspicion it violated animal protection laws by allowing dogs kept at the facility to starve to death.
National Police Agency officials said that the crackdown by Kanagawa police was based on the unusual allegation that dogs at the school were in a weakened state.
From Aug. 19 to Sept. 12, the school operators allegedly gave no food or water to eight dogs kept at the facility in the Kanagawa prefectural town of Manazuru.

The operators had kept and sold dogs at the school for years, but its sanitation conditions had deteriorated since the summer of last year, local sources said...