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For Veterans Day
In honor of Veterans Day here in America, I wanted to share some information about a great group called American Dog Rescue. One of the projects this foundation is involved with is helping to airlift...
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A Girl’s Best Friend
A few years ago, Sami Stoner was just a regular 8th grade school girl in Ohio who loved to run cross country but things started to change when she began having trouble with her vision. After many tests...
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Capitán : Argentina’s Hachikō
The story of Japan’s Hachikō is one of the most touching tales about the eternal bond between man and dog around (if you’re not familiar with the story, you can read my post here). It’s also the most...
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In Sickness and In Health
I wanted to share this story because it’s important. And it’s sad, but also beautiful and inspiring. It’s about the loss of our beloved dogs, which is something we all eventually face, but it’s...
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Put Your Pencils Down
Well, it’s that time of year. Stomachs in knots, heads pounding, biting of nails. That stressful, anxiety-ridden period full of late nights, giant coffees and panic in general. I’m not talking about...
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Operation Animal Airlift
This past weekend in California, a major undertaking took place: the airlift of hundreds of dogs from overcrowded shelters in Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest where there’s apparently a shortage of...
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Faithful Friend Ciccio
Maria Margherita Lochi was known in her town of San Donaci, Italy for her kindness in looking after and adopting stray dogs and cats. One of her adopted dogs, a 12-year-old German Shepherd mix named...
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Dogs Teach Us Things
Barnaby was like a mood, a fragrance of the harmonious inner life, permeating everything with which he came into contact. He knew sorrow and he knew joy, and he held them in a delicate balance of...
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Rest in Peace, Ciccio
Note: originally I posted this yesterday after I read that Ciccio had passed, but when I returned to Facebook I saw that it was denied again (there has been a lot of arguing over his custody as the...
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Vafa Animal Shelter
Governments get in the way. Rhetoric makes us bypass people we might otherwise admire. That’s a lousy thing because if we can push that aside and look closer, we’d be very surprised at what we’d find....
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The Portraitsphere : Kids Against Lab Beagles
It’s time to venture into The Portraitsphere once again, and this time we’re off to Pasadena to visit the world of a cool kid named Kat. But before we leave on this journey, I want to express my...
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Dogs Teach Us Things, Part 2
I’ve said it before, that dogs teach us things. It was a title of a post I did last year for my boy Henry. It lives in my head and in my heart all the time, some days more than … Continue reading →
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How Adopting a Dog Saved My Life
If I meet someone that doesn’t already have a dog, of course I immediately tell them to get one. Run, don’t walk! Now I understand that some people can’t have one for a few good reasons: they travel...
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I am Abraham Lincoln
Okay, that’s not true. I’m definitely not Abraham Lincoln. And this post isn’t about dogs…or is it…? Today I heard about a book by author Brad Meltzer, actually a series of books, that teaches kids...
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The Name is Bug…Ladybug
No matter what your parents do for a living, you benefit from it. Not just because they bought you socks (in my day) or bought you an iPhone (these days), but because their career experience directly...
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Phoebe. And Hadley.
A few months ago we decided to try and find a friend for our dog Stella. If you recall from the post about adopting her, I said she’s a star. And she’s still a star, but she’s become quite a … Continue...
View ArticleGood Time to Have a Dog. Or Five.
What am I saying? I should revise that title. It’s always a good time to have a dog. It’s been ages since I’ve written a post for this blog, and I feel rotten about it. Again. I think now is … Continue...
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