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It is a picture custom-tailored to break your heart: a Great Dane draped across a blanket in front of a cinderblock wall in what appears to be an animal hospital, her head supported by two hands, her left front paw hooked up to a IV line.

The photo is accompanied by a message: "UPDATE, it's now the 7th day" — a broken-heart emoji is inserted — "and am urgently looking for the owners of this beautiful Great Dane we picked up on the side road in Lake Luzerne. She's really depressed, not eating. Please help me bump this post so I can find the owner."

What sort of heartless fiend would hoard the half-calorie of energy required to click the SHARE button if there was even a slight chance doing so would help reunite this pathetic creature with her owner — in Lake Luzerne, or iin any of the other far-flung North American locations named in the dozens of otherwise identical Facebook posts that use the exact same photo?

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Such as Oklahoma City, Brooklyn, Ontario and Ohio — places where it is perpetually "now the 7th day," though the original posters — people with oddly threadbare Facebook account and profile photos that appear to come........

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