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Tia Torres Research Paper

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Im’paw’sible to take down! Or Bad dogs gone good!

Have you ever wondered how it would be to rescue stray dogs for a living? From going to living in her car to saving dogs and parolees lives, Tia Torres has made a difference in the world and society. Tia Torres had some high and low points of her career. She helped so many people and dogs and will carry on for a long time.
Tia Torres´ childhood would not be the ideal childhood. She was raised by her stepmother and had no father figure. With no father figure in Tia´s life, her mom showed her that if you have the loyalty of an animal companion, you don't need much else.(“Tia Torres” 1). They had two horses, a goat, and a dog named Cougar. She loved animals before she could walk. Tia began to …show more content…

She has worked in the Army, gang counselor, and drug housing care and many more but, her favorite job is working at the Villalobos Rescue Center. Villalobos Rescue Center was for Pitbulls only but soon after that they have been getting any dog breeds but mainly pitbulls. Her earlier careers have lead to working with parolees to give them a second chance. She has helped hundreds of parolles by giving them a second chance nobody else would. She took paroles straight out of jail. “Villalobos Rescue Center was now a rescue for primarily dogs, but it was quickly taking on rescued humans as well.”(“Tia Torres” 1) She says the positive outweighs that negative. She puts the dogs before her life, Tia has ran in front of an oncoming train. “...thankfully I still have about 2 more lives to go.”(“Tia Torres 2”). She loves working with dogs, her life is taking care of unwanted and wanted dogs. The hardest part in her career was Hurricane Katrina. They had to move up north to Louisiana because their emergency shelter was there. Everyday they would go down where their other rescue center was to try and save dogs that were caught in the storm. If she found a dog she would try to find the owner, if they couldn't they would take it with. They will keep a dog until somebody comes and adopts them. The Rescue Center has dogs between newborn and elderly. Villalobos is a No Kill rescue center. They believe every dog should get a chance to live happily. When …show more content…

Tia’s first dog was Tanka was a pitbull. The first pitbull they rescued had no ears and was all beat up. They have been rescuing dogs for many years now. People think pitbulls are all mean because of their fighting past. Tia has proved that all dogs can be nice, you just have to take care of the dogs right. She has helped so many dogs, you can't even count how many dogs she helped. Some dogs have had illnesses and she has been the one to take them to vet, hours away. She puts her life into caring for the dogs. When a dog dies from a disease, everybody is affected by the death. The parolees have got so close too the dogs, sometimes the form a special bond that nobody would understand, if they weren't a parole. The paroles have not only been helped by Tia but by the

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