Dawkins needs, and deserves, a loving home

Can you help find a home for this beautiful dog?  If so, please leave a comment here or call Chrissie O'Connell at 610-342-6823. 

Dawkins is a Border Collie, Australian Shepard and Australian Cattle dog mix. His birthdate is 6/20/2010.  He needs a new home because his owner has cancer and is moving out of state. He was rescued from a kill animal shelter and history indicates abuse so he has a few quirks and can be skittish at times.

He is a very loyal dog but tends to be attached and very protective of just one person; however he does not like children or cats.  He does well with other dogs and is very submissive to them.  He seems to show a natural ability to herd and would probably really thrive in an environment in which he can run.  For more information call Chrissie O'Connell at 610-342-6823.

Dying Vietnam veteran reunited with lost dog

Published June 08, 2013
FoxNews.com

A dying Vietnam veteran who doctors say has only days to live was granted his last wish by a stranger who was able to reunite him with his beloved lost dog, Mr. Cutie.

John Simpson, the veteran, was moved to hospice and could not bring Mr. Cutie. Last Sunday, Mr. Cutie escaped his new owner's home by digging a hole under a backyard fence. It was one day after he visited Simpson in the hospice.

"Saturday was the first time I took the dog here to hospice. The next day, he got out," Ann Marie Gemmel, the neighbor who has been checking on the dog, told MyFoxTampaBay.com. "I really think he was looking for John," she said.

Simpson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012. He described Mr. Cutie as his "spark of life," and said the dog is what he was living for.

"When you’re growing up you're asked, 'If you could have one wish, what would you wish for?' Back in those days, I used to say, 'As many wishes as I could wish for.' Now my only wish would be for my dog to come home,'" he told MyFoxTampaBay.com.

His wish was granted Friday when Missy Figueroa connected Mr. Cutie with Simpson by posting pictures of the dog she had found on FidoFinder. The dog had been found running around the area near where he escaped with a red collar but had no identification tags.

It wasn't confirmed that the dog found was Mr. Cutie until the moment of the reunion.

"Seeing this person that I don't even know, you know, so excited to see his dog, it just makes me happy that I actually got to be here for that and just make him happy," Figueroa told MyFoxTampaBay.com.

Simpson said that he had been praying to St. Jude everyday for the return of his dog.

"I'm about to cry," he said during the reunion.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/08/dying-vietnam-veteran-reunited-with-lost-dog/print#ixzz2ViHWwigg

Dogs are truly man's best, most loyal friend

Police dog bids farewell to slain cop

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News - The Lookout

More than 1,000 people—including hundreds of fellow police officers from surrounding states—turned out at a funeral in rural Kentucky late last week to pay their respects to Jason Ellis, a 33-year-old K-9 officer gunned down last month in what authorities believe was an ambush. Fido, Ellis' police dog, was there, too, placing his paw on the closed casket—a moment captured in a heartbreaking image by photographer Jonathan Palmer.  

Fido was not with Ellis on May 25 when he was shot multiple times while collecting debris on a highway off-ramp in Bardstown, Ky., a close-knit community of about 12,000 located 40 miles southeast of Louisville. Ellis' slaying remains unsolved.

Dozens of fellow K-9 officers attended the funeral and, according to the Herald Leader, their dogs could be heard barking from their cruisers:

Hundreds of officers snapped to attention when the honor guard was called; the 60 or so police dogs at the ceremony barked with the sound of the guards' 21-gun salute.

Ellis, a six-year veteran of the police force, was remembered by Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin, who pledged to hunt down the killer.

"I am your chief, Jason, but you're our hero and you need to know this chief will not stand down," McCubbin said. "Jason, my friend, rest easy. We've got it from here."

Ellis is survived by his wife, Amy, and two sons: Hunter, 7, and Parker, 6.

"He paid the ultimate sacrifice doing what he loved, being a police officer," McCubbin added.