As if preventing overpopulation and euthanasia of unwanted dogs weren’t enough, the University of Georgia has just announced the results of their spay / neuter study. Good news! They have found another reason to have the procedure performed on every dog possible.
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Shelter Sunday: Help for Homeless Pets / Billings, MT
Meet Cinnamon! This beautiful Boxer mix is living with Help for Homeless Pets in Billings Montana. Here’s what they have to say about her:
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Saturday Survey: Play Ball!
In honor of baseball opening, basketball finishing, and the tetherball-playing Corgis we featured this week, I gotta know: does your dog like to play ball?
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Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Friday Funny: Clean Weiners
Hehehehehe
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Good day, and good dog!
Very Special Welcome Home
What do you do when Daddy comes home from a long deployment, but your legs just don’t work well enough for you to run to the door to welcome him?
This beautiful Bulldog / Pit Bull mix just crawled on over to greet him. Due to a birth defect, Emma has Hemivertebra (literally “half-vertebrae”), causing her back end to drag on the floor because her legs don’t work right. But, she would not allow herself to be left out of the homecoming celebration.
Sweet!
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Corgis on the Playground
Who knew? Corgis like tetherball!
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Good day, and good dog!
I bet they’re glad they chose this puppy!
Richard tried to rouse his wife, then rolled her over on her back when she wouldn’t wake up. He found her foaming at the mouth, having a seizure. Janelle was seizing because her blood pressure had risen dramatically due to a condition known as eclampsia.
Baby Charlotte was delivered by emergency C-section weighing just one pound, seven ounces. The whole family is said to be doing very well, in spite of the health scare. I’m thinking Louie will be looking forward to some extra love when mom and baby come home from the hospital!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Cheesecake, the benevolent Capybara
OK, to start off, I had to look up what a Capybara is. Here’s what I learned: these large, odd looking animals are actually the world’s largest rodent, basically a great big guinea pig!
Now Cheesecake, the Capybara who lives at Rocky Ridge Rescue in Midway, Arkansas, may be just a little bit more compassionate than the average Capybara. When the new mama dogs at the rescue need a break from their active puppies, Cheesecake gets to babysit. She has apparently done this with several litters of pups, and is quite the good auntie.
Check out the rescue’s Facebook page for lots of pictures featuring Cheesecake and “her” puppies.
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog! (or good Capybara, as the case may be)
Shelter Sunday: Diana’s Grove Dog Rescue / Cabool, MO
Meet Lenny! This beautiful Shepherd / Lab mix was born in January, 2013 and is living in Cabool, Missouri with Diana’s Grove Dog Rescue. Here’s what their website has to say about him:
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A Shelter Dog Gets Chosen
Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her.
I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn’t be afraid. As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn’t want her to know that I hadn’t been walked today. Sometimes the overworked shelter keepers get too busy and I didn’t want her to think poorly of them.
As she read my kennel card I hoped that she wouldn’t feel sad about my past. I only have the future to look forward to and want to make a difference in someone’s life.
She got down on her knees and made little kissy sounds at me. I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her. Gentle fingertips caressed my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I raised my paw to assure her that all would be well.
Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms.
I would promise to keep her safe.
I would promise to always be by her side.
I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes.
I was so fortunate that she came down my corridor. So many more are out there who haven’t walked the corridors. So many more to be saved. At least I could save one.
I rescued a human today.
I’m not sure who wrote this. I found it on Facebook, and just fell in love with the sweetness of it!
Until next time,
Good day. and good dog!