Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Just a warning… get your tissues out for this one!
The Old Man and The Dog
by Catherine Moore

Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!’ My father yelled at me.
‘Can’t you do anything right?’
Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the […]

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Submitted by For The Love of the Dog

I admit that I am not a TV watcher but I hear enough about ‘The Apprentice’ and know enough about Donald Trump to know that the show and the man tend to be more synonymous with words like ‘cold-hearted’ and ‘greed’ and ‘hard’ than anything soft and cuddly.
Well, […]

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Submitted by For The Love of the Dog

How devastating and heartbreaking! Two of Steve McGlonn’s and girlfriend, Barbara Hatfield’s, dogs were found brutally tortured and killed in Ohio.
Mack, a black Labrador retriever, and Flash, a Walker coonhound normally roamed the couple 56-acre property but were always home for dinner. On Friday, (12/28 ?) when they […]

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Submitted by For The Love of the Dog

Most of us think of of our dog’s collars and tags as safety and security but in chatting with a group of friends, all dog people, their stories shed a new light on collars and tags and not a pleasant one.
Yesterday, one of my friends was home, doing […]

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Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
I could walk around the yard barefoot in safety.
My house could be carpeted instead of tiled and laminated.
All flat surfaces, clothing, furniture, and cars would be free of hair.
When the doorbell rings, it wouldn’t sound like a kennel.
When the doorbell rings, I could get to the door without […]

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Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG

P. John Darmanin from the Vegetarian Society of Malta gives a Christian vegan perspective on animal circuses and veganism in a letter to The Times in reply to Shane Johnson’s letter of January 1.
Mr Darmanin writes: “With reference to Shane Johnson’s letter in The Times (January 1), I too used […]

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