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

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Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. When he went outside to investigate, he saw a dusty troupe of mottled, almost camouflaged, puppies rolling in the sand, all presided over by a serious, sleek, dark presence—their mother. Growing up, we always had animals.

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Guest post: Dog Adoption

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Dog Fence DIY will help with all the steps of the process. If you’re planning on adding a dog to your family, it’s possible you’ll find your new family member at the local animal shelter or humane society. Do you have time to toilet train a puppy, and feed it several times a day? Be realistic about your lifestyle.

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Book: Scent of the Missing

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Our working life together is framed by loss and urgency—a person missing, time passing, a family and community desperate for answers. Having run beside many other dogs and handlers before I met the puppy who would become my partner, I knew this kind of collaboration existed, this necessary dialogue. We need it in the search field.

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