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Discover LudwigThe phrase "neglected dog" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a dog that has not received proper care, attention, or love. Example: "The shelter was filled with many animals, but the most heartbreaking case was the neglected dog that had been left outside for days."
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At first, she is drawn by the pained howls of the boys' neglected dog, Taliban.
It's the kind of grim, beneath-the-breadline scenario in which you think you know what you're in for – until the transformative appearance of Jennifer, a practical, animal-loving Welsh girl who shows concern for the brothers' neglected dog (named Taliban "because he's vicious... and brown").
One day it is snowing, and the next day the ski slopes are turning mangy, shedding like an old, neglected dog.
A neglected dog is almost always a hungry dog.
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Stray, neglected dogs are common to many Caribbean islands (and also throughout the Third World), but Puerto Rico is an interesting case because it is a U.S. territory, subject to American-style animal cruelty laws.
When you see Alyssa Milano's face pop up on TV, you knock your kids over as you scramble desperately to reach for the remote and change the channel before the haunting images of malnourished children and neglected dogs seep into your soul and hijack your heart.
Shocks and revelations mount in this household Abu Ghraib as dysfunction nosedives into depravity and a neglected, famished dog penned in a barn barks a persistent refrain of suffering.
A good dog owner will not neglect the dog's teeth to the point that the teeth are missing (which indicates cavities and abscesses) or that the gums bleed.
The canine humiliation came in Pittsburgh, where Mr Brown behaved like a neglected lap-dog, trying every pathetic trick he could think of to please his owner.
Max's ingenuity throughout is of a mostly quiet kind: a spoiled rich girl who neglects her dog is quietly tricked into trading it for an ant colony.
Not only the obviously abusive and cruel individuals whose family members brought in the neglected and victimized dog but also those who brought their dogs to my office asking me to put them "to sleep," not because they were aggressive or ill but because they "shed too much" or "bark too much".
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