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12/05/2023

Congratulations to MARGARET CHARBONEAU as the WINNER!

You are all so fabulous to continue to support us and a huge thank you again to Tiffany Nelson for donating this and for her hard work! We raised an amazing $950 which will go straight to the vet for all the visits we had last week and this week so far!

Margaret - pls message us your address so we can get this in the post to you!
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WIN THIS FABULOUS HANDMADE QUILT!

Handmade by one of our longtime supporters and fan, Tiffany Nelson!
SIZE: 66”x48”

$5 donation gets you a chance to win
We will mail to the winner!
Drawing will be Tuesday at 9 PM EST!

https://social.fund/uedtsf/?sw=1

04/23/2023

This is such an amazing story! I want to adopt him myself!

02/19/2022

This is such a great and heartwarming story. She was an amazing dog. I hope that you all read this and enjoy it.

Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.

Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.

The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.

He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"

They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."

Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".

At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."

When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

08/26/2021

This was so sweet !

04/19/2021

She is just so adorable! I would’ve had to take her home also!

02/23/2021

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02/05/2021

These are so funny! If you have a cat and you can identify I am sure. You will love these!