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last updated 8 January 2015

A shaggy, wheat-colored mutt was found wandering the streets of Los Angeles earlier this year. He was filthy and his hair was tangled with painful burrs.

The pup named Charlie was taken to an overcrowded, high-kill shelter where he had only two weeks to get adopted or he would be put down.

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Lauren Hansen produces The Weekâ€™s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.