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Letter to the Editor: Negligent dog owners are held responsible elsewhere

My wife and her dog, Daisy, were attacked by a pack of vicious dogs, as covered by this newspaper last week. The largest, lead dog, mauled our dog who was on a leash and she was bitten on nearly 50 percent of her body. It has been excruciating to watch our dear dog struggle to recuperated from such devastating wounds but I am so thankful to the Lord that He had his hand of protection on my wife. For the sake and safety of our citizens as they walk the streets of our town and for the children playing in their yards, I urge city leaders in Pratt to take actions that will prevent this from happening to anyone else. One only needs to look at the comments on Pratt Community Connections and Tri-County Tribune Facebook pages regarding this incident to see this in not a rare case! This is happening over and over again in our quiet neighborhoods.

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Space rescue highlights unifying effect for former astronaut’s wife

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 24, 2025 — The unifying impact of space exploration was on full display recently during the dramatic rescue of two NASA astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for nine months. And in her poignant new book, You Don’t Look like an Astronaut’s Wife, Anita K. Mitchell, the former wife of Apollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell, pays homage to the pioneers who flew to the moon and united the people of Earth with the first images from space.

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