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Police K-9 Program
November 18, 2020
Thursday the Rotary Club of Mason announced a fundraiser to assist the City of Mason with launching a new K-9 program within the police department. In September, Ingham County Animal Control transferred eight German Shepard dogs from St. Clair County Animal Control. The dogs had been rescued from a neglect/hording situation. Of those eight, one […]
Dog Helps Veteran Overcome PTSD
November 17, 2020
Service dogs are one way to help veterans cope with traumatic experiences from military service. One non-profit provides them free of charge to veterans. Arbor is a playful, loving dog according to the owner, Amber. Another special thing about Arbor is that he is a service dog trained for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder […]
Middle Schoolers Get A Furry Friend
November 17, 2020
It is 2:11 p.m. on a sun-drenched and breezy November day. The world is spinning a thousand different directions, but in language arts teacher Jessica Blaum’s classroom — inside Bettendorf Middle School — there is calm. No anger, no frustration, no recounts. Below me rests Delta, the world’s coolest Bermese mountain dog — a Shaquille […]
Veterans Find Guardian Angels
November 17, 2020
A relatively simple question crossed Stacy Juchno’s mind shortly after she became executive sponsor of PNC’s Military employee business resource group: what type of activity might better engage the group? Around the same time, Juchno, the leader of PNC’s internal audit department, heard about Guardian Angels, a non-profit organization that pairs service dogs with veterans […]
Shelter Dog Heads To The White House
November 17, 2020
Delaware’s own Joe Biden is heading to the White House as the projected winner of the presidential race and, now so is a dog from Delaware. Major, a two-and-a-half-year-old German Shepherd, was adopted by the Biden family from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018 and will be the first shelter dog to be inside the White […]
Veterans With Dogs
November 17, 2020
Veterans With Dogs has been able to purchase a dedicated van thanks to a donation of £10,000 from the Exeter Chiefs Foundation. The fully-branded van was unveiled as a launch event, before lockdown, attended by trustees Marc Astley and Keiron Northcott from the Exeter Chiefs Foundation and Craig MacLellan, chief executive of Veterans With Dogs. […]
Hannah Changes Lives
November 17, 2020
Although Hannah is only five months old, she’s already preparing for a job that will change someone’s life. On a recent outing, the black Lab puppy sniffed the grass before snapping to attention when her trainer, resident Kara Hubbard, said her name. Hubbard is temporarily raising the 40-pound canine that is part of the NEADS […]
CMS’s Therapy Dog
November 17, 2020
His full name is Shilohs Magnanimous Black, but he goes by Magnus for short. He’s young, he’s playful, and his blonde hair has a tendency to get everywhere. He’s the new therapy dog at Cody Middle School, training to help the students calm down and even learn. Magnus isn’t a service or emotional support animal […]
Raising Money For Treatment
November 17, 2020
After spending the past three years helping her daughter fight a rare disease affecting her ability to walk, the last thing Santa Clarita Valley resident Lisa Burke expected was to have her dog experience similar struggles. At the beginning of the year, Burke’s 20-year-old daughter Layne had a spinal nerve stimulator put in her back, […]
Rescue Animals Teach Compassion
November 17, 2020
As a word, a touch or a piece of fruit brings humans and animals together, Jessie Miller gets to watch. When children and adults visit One EPIC Farm, her nonprofit’s 7-acre sanctuary on Jacksonville’s far north side, they meet animals up close. They meet horses, mules, pigs and other animals they may have never personally […]
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