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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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We all heard, when notorious hotelier Leona Helmsley passed "over the Rainbow Bridge" that she'd left $12 million to her pooch, Trouble. I'll confess to thinking, at the time that ... well, all very nice, but it doesn't take $12...
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First, they tried to clone dogs. That didn't work, and the company, Genetic Savings & Clone, shut down. I guess a lot of people lost some money. (Who knows how many dogs they lost in all the experiments they conducted?) So then they cloned the...
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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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We've been dedicating this blog to the Vicktory dogs since they arrived here last December. But we have other things to report in a general Best Friends blog, so this page is now becoming the general Best Friends blog. There are still regular updates...
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The body and the mind work together. If the body is not healthy, the mind is preoccupied. If the mind is not healthy, the body suffers. Ann Allums is one of our chief trainer/rehabilitators here at the sanctuary, and she says the body/mind connection...
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As I stopped by to visit the Vicktory dogs the other day, I got to talking with the caregivers about Mya. Mya is the Vicktory dog who came a couple months back from Bad Rap, a pit bull rescue in California that operates through foster homes. Mya hadn't...
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