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752 dogs + 36 birds = 1 record nightmare
sawyer rocks

A rural neighborhood in Avra Valley is not even trying to keep up with the Joneses, because the Joneses had more than 700 dogs.

Authorities said 752 dogs and 36 birds were seized this week at a property in the 12200 block of West Manville Road.

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Cash offered to addicts, alcoholics who agree to long-term birth control
baby Folks at downtown's Ronstadt Transit Center on Tuesday afternoon had a way to make a quick $300. The only stipulation was that the people be drug addicts or alcoholics who agree to long-term birth control.
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Foreclosures make Arizona families give up pets

Maxx is losing his home and family. He doesn't know it yet. The pooch was rescued as a pup from the streets seven years ago and has lived snugly in the Strohmeyers' southwest side home ever since. That home went into foreclosure proceedings two weeks ago. The family has less than three months to move out and find a new home for themselves and Maxx.
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$500,000 needed to save Tucson landmark
garden gnome

Tucsonan Ann Marie Heithaus vividly remembers her first visit to the Valley of the Moon more than 30 years ago.

She and her Brownie Girl Scouts troop were dazzled by a fairy princess, glimpsed a gnome or two and were on their way to meet the mighty wizard Zoggog in his tower.

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