Pandemic hinders vet service on Navajo Nation, dogs multiply
VIDA VOLKERT, Gallup Independent
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) Gloria Skeet used to run a couple of miles from her home to her sister’s place on the Navajo Nation just south of Gallup until the dogs started to chase her.
“It was around 2008 that I started developing anxiety because there was a pack of dogs that would follow me,” Skeet, the Bááháálí Chapter manager told the Gallup Independent. “I was running with my dogs and I felt safe with them, but after that man in Sundance was killed by a pack of dogs, I thought, Oh my God, when are they going to find my dead body?’