Category Archives: Dog Advocacy

Tucker Receives Random Act of Huge Kindness

Courtesy Christina Summitt via CNN.com
Courtesy Christina Summitt via CNN.com
From the CNN iReport, which brings us good news: Christina Summitt works three jobs, trying to support her three step-children, as well as her work in dog rescue. Her own dog, Tucker, a Great Dane-Black Lab mix, is never far from her thoughts. He recently swallowed a plastic ball, and she knew he’d need surgery to remove it, but the estimated cost was $2,700.
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Virtual Leash Brings Your Dog Home

This is a cool new idea from the good folks at Dog Tag Art. It allows you to create a website just for your dog, which is really nothing new. Their twist on it, however, is that you put the website URL on your dog’s tag, allowing anyone who finds your dog when it is lost to log on and find out contact information not only for you, but for whomever might be more accessible at the time.
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Another Win for the MicroChip!

Pictured in the back row are Mary Davis and Shawn Woolever, who brought Corbin home to Michael Saiz.  Photo from Fox19.
Pictured in the back row are Mary Davis and Shawn Woolever, who brought Corbin home to Michael Saiz. Photo from Fox19.
This story grabbed my attention because the dog is originally from Texas (where my dad was raised), but was found in Hamilton, Ohio (where my mom now lives). Weird, huh?

Corbin, a Chiweenie from Killeen, Texas apparently tunneled out of his back yard on March 25th. No one knows what happened between then and when the dog was found tied to a bench outside the Butler County Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton, Ohio on March 28th, but what happened next is truly a tale of fate and Good Samaritanism.
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Must be a FOUR LEAF Clover

Photo:  Kevin R. Wexler / NorthJersey.com
Photo: Kevin R. Wexler / NorthJersey.com
When hikers found this mess of a dog on a cliff behind Lambert Castle at Garrett Mountain Park in northern New Jersey, they never dreamed it would take more than 20 people and over 3 hours to get her down. She was subsequently named Clover, and she apparently does have the luck of the Irish.
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