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Toby The Therapy Dog

September 14, 2020

With a new school year underway, there may be students entering the year feeling anxious and overwhelmed. Scottville Gateway 2 Success Academy also know students may be going through issues in their personal life. “Sometimes, we see what’s happening on the outside, but there’s so much going on inside of people,” said Superintendent and Principal […]

Best Dog Breeds For Kids

September 14, 2020

If you’re looking to buy a dog for your children, make sure it’s one that will suit their personality perfectly. Here are five dog breeds that match different needs your children might have. Many of us had a fluffy best friend when we were growing up. Every kid should have a dog, and every dog […]

Dog Training Center

September 11, 2020

A new dog training center will celebrate its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday. All That Canine, at 849 Main St., will kick off the day with the ribbon cutting at 11 a.m. Saturday before a day of activities hosted by the businesses’ co-owners and trainers, Linda Mazzeo and Erica Kasper. There will […]

Rocky The Therapy Dog

September 11, 2020

Rocky isn’t your typical police dog. He doesn’t sniff out drugs or chase down suspects. His specialty is, in fact, quite different, yet valued. “I think the perception is that police dogs are what we commonly call ‘bite dogs’,” said his handler Officer Matt Masci of the Perry Police Department, who’s also the district’s School […]

Labradoodle Crossbreed

September 11, 2020

Labradoodles — the small, family-friendly crossbreed dog beloved by many a celebrity — is far more poodle than Labrador Retriever, a DNA analysis has revealed. Researchers from the US studied more than 150,000 points along the labradoodle genome to determine how the breed has developed over the decades. They found that changes in very few […]

Pet Walk

September 11, 2020

Air Force Veteran Sonya Heilmann says her therapy dog, Jock, a seven-year-old Pembroke Welsh Corgi (pictured above), seems sad since he cannot visit patients in medical centers. The visits are his favorite activities. “He really needed to go and do his job. Once we get to the hospital and I put his little vest on, […]

Pets Improving Lives

September 11, 2020

This year has taught us all about the importance of immunity. Many of us are doing our best to improve immune function. Strategies to reach this goal vary widely in practicality and scientific grounding. But could it be that one of the ways to improve immune function is right under our noses? Could our pets […]

Service Dogs Graduate

September 11, 2020

Cue “Pomp and Circumstance” because these smart pups are graduating from Saint Francis Service Dogs. The organization is holding a virtual ceremony for its new graduates on Sunday at 7 p.m. to celebrate the end of their service dog training. Saint Francis Service Dogs is a nonprofit organization in Roanoke that matches professionally-trained service dogs […]

K9s For Warriors

September 11, 2020

Amanda Peterson tried to go places with her family. But she was limited to 40 minutes. That’s all she could stand before a tingling in her spine and a surge of overwhelming anxiety would set in causing the veteran of Michigan’s U.S. Army Reserves to panic. “When people are scared they exhibit the flight or […]

Paying It Forward

September 11, 2020

Luke Tordy says his service dog, Dragon, reconnected him with his life. His family agrees. But such a simple statement hardly seems adequate to describe the wholesale transformation that has taken place since Santa-Rosa, Calif.-based Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) brought Tordy and Dragon together. Since receiving Dragon in 2017 to help with emotional and […]