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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

If you are looking for a heartwarming, uplifting story, then you really need to add Welcome Home Mama and Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldier’s Beloved Dogs to your reading list. Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. He spends a good two weeks feeding the mother dog, trying to gain her trust.

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Sen. Franken to Introduce Bill to Increase Use of Service Dogs for Vets

Critter News

Al Franken (suck on that Bill O'Reilly) has introduced a bill to increase the number of service dogs for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. My bill will help train a statistically significant number of dogs to measure the benefits to veterans with physical and emotional wounds. It's the smart thing to do.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. Dogs should not be used to hunt foxes. Invade… I’m sorry, liberate Iraq and we’ll be welcomed with flowers and democracy will spring forth. A hungry child should be fed.

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