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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Robin<\/a>, the now-former bait dog, could win $10,000 and grace the cover of Modern Dog magazine.<\/p>\n Former \u2018bait dog\u2019 in national competition <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Kati Krouse, who’s fostered hundreds of dogs, found the nearly dead pittie in Sam Houston National Forest. She rushed the emaciated dog to the vet.<\/p>\n In addition to numerous open wounds and bone-eating bacteria, part of Robin’s face was gone from dog fights.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Kati became Kati’s foster family. Now she’s hoping Robin can become America’s Favorite Pet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can cast your vote here<\/a> for free or for a fee until February 27.<\/p>\n Kati wants Robin’s participation in the program to show the public that pitties used as bait dogs can become great family dogs.<\/p>\n Pets and Animals<\/a>Huntsville<\/a>Walker County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Robin, the now-former bait dog, could win $10,000 and grace the cover of Modern Dog…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,6487,223,5163,216,393,48987],"class_list":["post-172447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-huntsville","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-walker-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}