Animal shelter celebrates improvements

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Fuzzy blankets, squeaky toys, the soothing murmurs of volunteers and vitamin-rich diets aren?t the only new comforts at Baltimore City?s animal shelter ? new policies focused on adoption have increased the facility?s life-saving efforts tenfold in recent months, officials said.

Two years ago, animals were assigned desolate, cockroach-infested cells. They ate anything donated and slept on newspaper. About 98 percent were euthanized.

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