Good Dog Adoption Agency, Inc.

12/10/2024

When adopting a new pet, please remember you are on their time. Not the other way around!

12/04/2024

NATIONAL PET SUFFOCATION AWARENESS WEEK

The week following Thanksgiving is "National Pet Suffocation Awareness Week."

Bonnie Harlan is the Founder of Prevent Pet Suffocation, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to spreading public awareness on the suffocation dangers pets face from chip bags and other food packaging.

She created "Prevent Pet Suffocation" shortly after her four-year-old rescue dog, “Blue,” suffocated in a Frito Lay Cheetos chip bag on December 15, 2011. It never occurred to her that her beloved dog could lose his life in a seemingly innocuous 9-ounce chip bag.

Dogs love snacks…food…you name it. It is common for them to rummage around in wastebaskets and trash cans following that delicious scent of potato chips, pretzels, etc.

These snack bags, often made from a plastic called oriented polypropylene, are air-tight to maintain product freshness.

As was the case with “Blue,” the small, tubular bag fit snuggly on the dog’s head and could not be removed by the unsupervised animal. This tragedy is all too common.

Bonnie indicates that she is contacted multiple times, each week, regarding pets who have lost their lives to this accident.

Death can occur in minutes.

Please consider cutting openings at both the top and bottom of the snack and food bags prior to discarding them. Place trash in covered trash cans/bins. These practices also protect wildlife capable of rummaging through your trash when left outside. And, learn pet CPR!

11/26/2024

From Dog People

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“Jack Brutus” another fine soldier,(shown here in uniform) serving during the Spanish - American war became the official mascot for Company K, First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. “Old Jack” as he was known, and his unit, spent most of the war encamped at various places here in the states providing coastal defense from Maine to Virginia. Old Jack died in 1898.

11/11/2024

Jack understood bugle calls, and was the mascot for the 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry. This fine soldier was a dependable member in his unit, His career spanned through nearly all the regiment’s battles in Virginia and Maryland. Jack’s duty, was to seek out the dead and wounded of his regiment once the gunfire silenced. Jack was captured twice and became the only dog to be traded as a prisoner of war, when during his second capture he was exchanged, according to war time protocol, for a Confederate soldier at Belle Isle. Jack disappeared shortly after being presented a silver collar purchased by his human comrades and was believed to be a victim of theft.

11/11/2024

Sallie was buried on the battlefield while surrounded by enemy fire. In appreciation of her loyal devotion, a monument of Sallie now stands in Gettysburg, directly in front of the monument that commemorates the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry.

11/11/2024

This is the only image of "Sallie" on record. “Sallie” a brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier, was regimental mascot for the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Sallie grew up among the men of the regiment. She followed them on marches and into battle. At the battle of Gettysburg, July 1st – July 3rd 1863, Sallie was separated from her unit. Unable to find her way, she returned to the Union battle line at Oak Ridge, where Sallie stood guard over the dead and wounded. Sallie continued her faithful service until February of 1865 when during the battle of Hatcher’s Run, Virginia, Sallie was struck in the head by a bullet and killed instantly.

11/11/2024

The Pit Bull became America's Mascot during WWI and WWII. Their image was used in multiple posters, magazines and advertisements.

11/11/2024

During his Military career, Stubby aided in the capture of a German spy, was severely injured by shrapnel, sent to the Red Cross hospital for surgery, awarded the Purple Heart and sent back to his regimen. After the battle for the French village of Domremy, the grateful women of the township fashioned a hand sewn chamois coat, to display Stubby’s service chevrons, metals, pins and buttons, this became his recognized trademark, and is now on display at the Smithsonian Museum. In his lifetime Stubby was invited to the White house by three Presidents, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.