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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

The Dublin Dog Foundation (DDF) has partnered with Freedom Service Dogs, Inc. The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. About The Dublin Dog Foundation.

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Lost Souls: Found!

4 The Love Of Animals

is a great series of books about adopted/rescued dogs. Each book is breed specific, sharing stories of those who love the breed and have adopted dogs through rescue. Not only that, but a portion of the book profits are donate to a breed specific rescue group. Lost Souls: Found! Lost Souls: Found!

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An Animal Welfare First in Spain

Critter News

The refuge identified the owner via the microchip, but she did not want to take back the dog. Tags: spain dogs. She has also to pay 2,688 € to the animal refuge. Nacho Paunero, President of El Refugio, notes that this is the first time in Spain that someone has been fined for abandoning their animal at the doors of a refuge.

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Consider the Chickadee

10,000 Birds

Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. Just to make sure, however, I shooed the dogs away and checked it out. Who, after all, doesn’t love a chickadee? It was still alive.

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What About Daisy?

4 The Love Of Animals

While shopping for pet food in 2008, Maryam Faresh and her partner Bruce Meade saw a sign hanging on the wall with a picture of a white puppy with spots and strange looking eyes. is an inspiring children’s story about a deaf/blind rescue dog in search of her forever home. With the help of her canine rescue mom, Ms.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Dog Eat Your Taxes? ” (Op-Ed, July 9): It may be amusing for Ray D. Madoff to criticize Leona Helmsley’s charitable giving by saying her fortune “is going to the dogs,” but those of us who give to the Humane Society of the United States and other animal-rescue organizations feel otherwise.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: While businesses that rent dogs may be well intentioned, they’re unlikely to benefit the overall welfare of pets, and may actually do harm to the individual dogs they “rent” (“ For a Temporary Best-Friend Fix, Rent a Dog (Kibble Included) for a Day ,” news article, March 30).