It started with instinct—the kind that never lies. Donna Lochmann, chief life-saving officer for Stray Rescue of St. Louis (SRSL), has followed countless hunches into the most neglected corners of St. Louis. But this one was different.
As she passed a collapsed house in a storm-battered neighborhood, she spotted a gray pit bull in the yard—barking, pacing, desperate to be seen.
“She was yelling at us,” SRSL wrote on Facebook. “A mama dog barks at us, protecting her puppies who are inside an abandoned house.”…