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Pets

Consider These Dogs When You’re Adopting: Part II

In addition to dogs that attract bad adopters, there are dogs that don’t attract many, or even any, adopters.

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We Have Kittens! This is Not a Drill

I miss Sarafina and Alegria very much, but coming home to an empty house was even worse. This weekend, my husband and I headed to the shelters to look at cats. Spoiler alert: We came home with two black kittens!

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Dogs I Have Loved: Pip

[Non-trigger warning: This is NOT a sad story, just a dramatic one.]

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Pets

Adopting a Dog: Ways You Can Get One

So, you are ready to have a dog. The next step is deciding how to get one. Not surprisingly, there are many ways people go about getting a dog. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, except for pet stores (just don’t).

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So You Want to Get a Dog: Is Your Lifestyle Dog Friendly?

If you’ve waited to get a dog, chances are you were waiting until you had achieved another goal first. Maybe that goal is working fewer hours, having more money, or having a fenced yard. That’s good, because having a dog requires you to change your lifestyle in ways you can’t always predict. Before you do […]

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Packaging is Everything Sometimes, Even in Dog Rescue

There are some dogs you end up with who are challenges to place for marketing reasons. Here are two we puzzled over.

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Find Pets with Your Face ““ Or Someone Else’s Face

Yesterday, I came across this post at pawesome.net that pairs humans with dogs based on similarity in facial features. You input your picture, and the doggleganger shoots out a picture of a dog that matches your face. That’s right ““ now anyone can indulge their narcissism to such an extent that even their dogs can […]