SOUTH ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA — In this week's 16 To The Rescue, we meet a 6-year-old pit bull/mix who was left abandoned by her previous owner. She is safe now in the shelter, but rescue workers have quickly learned she is struggling with arthritis, and being in the kennel all day is not helping.

"If that's in a month, it's going to be horrifying, probably in the next 6," Mercades Drake, Griffin Pond Animal Shelter.

That is why rescue workers at Griffin Pond Animal Shelter near Clarks Summit chose to feature Mittens this week, and why they're desperate to find her a forever home. Mittens has arthritis, and it's getting worse, fast, here inside the shelter.

Mittens is probably about 6 years old; she was abandoned by her previous owner, and in the month she has lived here, rescue worker

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