Black Hat Humane Society makes a difference on reservation
A mother and pups eat dog food in the back of Cindy Yurth's truck after being rescued in Smoke Signal Thursday. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

By Vida Volkert
Staff writer

CHINLE — Cindy Yurth’s house in the green-roofed housing development outside the Chinle High School is one of the few where the grass is green and cottonwood trees and Navajo willows grow healthy and leafy — providing plenty of shade for the dogs she and her husband Eric Swanson, a music teacher with the high school, foster daily.

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