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So here's Trixie in the July Fourth parade. She was indeed the star of the show – as predicted in my post yesterday. And she behaved impeccably. Congratulations, Trix! Of course, Kanab, Utah, our local town, about 10 miles from the sanctuary, is not...
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What: Teen team travels around the state, interviewing people who dress up as superheroes and do good deeds. (The kids told me there really are such people!) What then: They decide to find some "real" heroes to interview as a counterpoint. And...
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Trixie is getting ready for her big day out. Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, she'll be starring in the parade through our local town of Kanab, Utah. Trixie is a mini-horse. She came here, in part, to be a companion to Luna, a mini-horse who had been...
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Our local airport is St. George, about 75 miles from the sanctuary. It's a small commuter airport, with flights just to Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, and in small planes that seat about 30 people and tend to bounce around when landing in the summer...
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While we'd been having the members meeting and talking about Safe Humane, thousands of other people were having a whole other meeting altogether – at the big McCormick Place Convention Center. It was the annual eBay Convention, and I'd been invited...
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It was an overflow crowd at the members meeting, which began at 7 pm. – about 260 people. We'd set up the meeting at only a few days' notice, so it was good of so many people to drop everything and come by the hotel. I love members meetings, and...
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Friday June 20th, 5 p.m. Before the members meeting, we invite some of the local organizations over to talk about why we're here and what we're doing. There are about 40 people at this get-together. Some of them already know about safe Humane...
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Friday June 20th Paul Berry, our exec director, standing at the back in the photo, has already been in Chicago a couple of days, working with Cynthia Bathurst, who heads up the Safe Humane program in Chicago. Yesterday, they took some dogs over to the...
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Friday 20th June , noon. WCIU TV is known throughout Chicago as "the dog channel." And they launched their "Top Dog" contest in April, with viewers invited to vote online for Chicago's top dog. Yvette Pina entered the contest and...
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Thurs, June 19. I'm flying into Chicago from Best Friends for a members meeting tomorrow. As we start the descent, we're over Iowa and this, or something just like this, is what I'm seeing out of the window. (I can't get to my own camera...
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Dogs have been such familiar associates of human-kind for so long that dog breeds along with dog characteristics and traits have long been used without qualification or footnoted definition in literature and the press to describe humans and human behavior...
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National Geographic have asked us if they can follow the progress of some of the Vicktory dogs in one or more episodes of Dogtown to be aired later this year. The first three episodes of their new series about life at Best Friends Dogtown aired in January...
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Spending several weeks with these delightful creatures, a bit of whimsy strikes and a touch of giddiness – that these guys are actually safe and are beginning to "show up", so to speak. I'm talking about what happens when dogs – any dogs...
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Dr. Frank writes about caring for the emotional and mental needs of the Vicktory dogs. Rehabilitation of fighting dogs has received very little attention and no systematic study. How does the experience of being used for fighting – which includes not...
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I'm no expert on pit bulls, so I was as curious as anyone else to see what these somewhat self-effacing celebrities were like when they first arrived here. In a nutshell: they're very different from anything you may have imagined or been led to...
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