NEW JOB FOR DRUG MULE PUPPY A GOOD FIT

It Sounds Like A Bad Pun: Heroin Smugglers Turn Puppies Into Mules.

The world has learned, a year after a raid by Drug Enforcement
Administration agents in New York, that Columbia drug lords smuggled
heroin into the United States inside the bellies of cuddly puppies.
These people apparently aren't worried about bad PR. Mistreating
puppies can be bad for the corporate image.

In reality, heroin dealers do a lot worse. They exploit people to
swallow condoms filled with heroin to smuggle it into the United
States. If one of the packages breaks, the human "mule" dies.

And, of course, there is the untold misery resulting from the drug,
itself. Thousands of Americans' lives are ruined by it.

But, we admit, there is something especially unsavory about sewing
one-pound packages of heroin into the stomachs of puppies. The pups
were shipped to drug traffickers posing as dog trainers looking for
Labrador and Rottweiler purebreds for dog shows.

Two of the three dogs died from infections after an operation to
remove the heroin. But one survived.

Colombian drug agents named her Heroina, a play on the Spanish words
for both the narcotic and a heroic female. She now is being trained
to be a drug-sniffing dog.

Fitting revenge.