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Dominique Hofmann, the owner of a 3-year-old lab named Ridge, described her dog as a "mama's boy" and said she sees him as family. So you might be able to imagine her frustration when people started putting her on blast, posting her name and photos in the comments on local news outlets' social media accounts. "I was getting a bunch of messages in my Facebook messenger," said Hofmann. "It was just message after message after message coming through saying, ‘You are a horrible person.’ Calling me foul names … 'I can’t believe that you’re the woman that abandoned your dog' and 'I saw you on the news' and 'You need to die and die slowly.'"
Dominique Hofmann, the owner of a 3-year-old lab named Ridge, described her dog as a "mama's boy" and said she sees him as family. So you might be able to imagine her frustration when people started putting her on blast, posting her name and photos in the comments on local news outlets' social media accounts. "I was getting a bunch of messages in my Facebook messenger," said Hofmann. "It was just message after message after message coming through saying, ‘You are a horrible person.’ Calling me foul names … 'I can’t believe that you’re the woman that abandoned your dog' and 'I saw you on the news' and 'You need to die and die slowly.'"