My owner cares about all kinds of people, including people in prison, so she’s involved with an organization that sends her Bible lessons that Prisoners do to review, then she sends them back with a nice letter she writes. She can’t send any information about herself, but loves doing this and has reviewed many lessons and written many letters.
We thought it was nice to hear that dogs are helping Prisoners, too, and not only Prisoners, but people in many ways. There is an organization called “Puppies Behind Bars” that we saw a program about on television, then read about in our local paper, and finally, we decided to visit their website.
It is amazing how much it means to people in prison to be able to be part of doing something good. Through this program they are training puppies so many things that I can’t even imagine learning them all myself. But they are prepared to help people who have disabilities, or people who have injuries like some of our wonderful veterans that are coming home from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places around the world. Some are trained to help in homeland security or law enforcement. You know what, there are so many things that these puppies are learning, that I’d just encourage you to stop by and visit the Puppies Behind Bars website and see for yourself.
If you know more about this, are part of this organization, or are being helped by a dog that has been through the program, I’d love to hear from you, please share in a comment, and thank you for what you are doing.
“Rescue Dogs” are dogs that for one reason or another don’t have a home, or are being mistreated where they are, and are rescued from the situation, and fostered by kind people until a nice person comes along and takes them home with them as a companion.
Before I moved in here, my owner was looking for a dog that needed a home, and used a popular site called Petfinder. They have dogs from all over the United States that need homes. We live in NJ, to find dogs that need homes in our state you go to this link. You can go to the home page from there and see if you can search for homeless pets in your area.
In most towns, there is an animal shelter, we have a very active one in our town. That may be the best place to start your search. It’s sad to think of how many dogs have to spend their lives living in small enclosures or cages, isn’t it?
Before you decide to own a dog, or any pet, make sure you have given it a lot of thought, and planned well. Too many animals end up in shelters because people find out that taking care of a pet is a lot more work than they thought.
My friend, Copper, has a new picture sent to me by his owner, Betty Lynch. Copper is a rescue dog, and is settling in to his new home nicely, according to Betty…who may be sitting next to him at her laptop?
You met Copper before, but this is a new picture, and a new reminder to us how important it is to consider adopting a pet. There are many sites to help you with this, start local, though, almost every town has an animal shelter, I know ours does. If your town doesn’t, check nearby towns. There are SOOO many pets that need homes, or just someone to visit them at the shelter and take them for a walk, maybe your shelter needs volunteers.
I hope all my animal and people friends are doing well today!
My owner received an important email from a friend, and her friend checked it out, all appears to be legit, so read on, and see how simple it is to help our animal friends:
“Hi, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple… Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (How about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box ‘fund food for animals’ for free. This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
I am really wagging my tail today, because I just found out that it’s National Wildlife week. I’m not a wild animal, but love all the little animals outside to be taken good care of so I can bark at them out the window. I especially love the squirrels that come to the bird feeders.
If you go and visit the National Wildlife Federation website you’ll see they said we could put the following video on our sites and blogs, and will find a lot of other good information to help save the animals, protect the environment and more.
