Loves and Leashes

08/07/2024

Please do not leave your pets unattended in a vehicle this summer! It can get upwards of 140° within minutes in a car. Protecting your loved ones, from that type of miserable and deadly experience should be a no brainer!

07/04/2024

Our current chaos coordinator

12/10/2023

Oh no!

13/08/2023

Just another reminder in case you don't know about this danger to our fur-kids.....

13/08/2023

Such a good idea!
Borrowed from
Meadow Brook Dalmatians

18/06/2023

Wow look at these beauties

15/06/2023

Very scary stuff here! Our last dog had it and we got extremely lucky!

Whole Dog Journal‘s mission is to provide dog guardians with in-depth information on dog food, training, behavior, health, and more.

29/04/2023

29/04/2023

23/04/2022

Meet Truman-the handsome boy I get the week with!

08/04/2022

Best friends!

08/04/2022

We are looking forward to watching your furry friend!

01/03/2022

POEM OF A DOG
I am the one who always waits for you.
Your car has a special sound that I
have imprinted on my senses, I can
recognize it among a thousand.
Your steps have a magic timbre.
Your voice is music to my ears.
If I see your joy, it makes me happy!
Your scent is the best,
Your presence is what moves my
senses.
Your awakening wakes me up.
I watch you sleep and for me you are my God, I am happy watching over your sleep.
Your gaze is a ray of light. Your hands on me have the lightness of peace and the sublime display of infinite love.
When you go out, I feel a huge emptiness in my heart.
I wait for you again and again.
I am the one who will wait for you all my life today, tomorrow and always:
I am your dog ❤️

24/02/2022

This is exciting Spokane friends!!

Thank you Spokane Humane Society for your $250,000 gift toward the construction of a dog park in the heart of Spokane Riverfront Park! Your gift comes in celebration of your 125th anniversary and legacy of work in animal welfare. We are deeply grateful for the partnership!

The urban dog park will cost approximately $750,000 to construct and our community is invited to participate:

https://www.spokaneparksfoundation.org/donate or
https://givebutter.com/dogpark

You love parks. We ❤️ you!

20/02/2022

20/02/2022

Do you know that children are among the most likely to get bitten by a dog? It is often by a dog that is familiar to the child. To prevent this, teach children to:
-ALWAYS ask for permission to pet a dog.
-LEAVE a dog alone who is sleeping or eating.
-DON'T tease or spook a dog.
-NEVER cause any harm to a dog, including poking, pulling, pushing.
Children who has been raised with a very tolerant dog, will often assume all dogs are as tolerant. Unfortunately, many children has learned this the hard way. PLEASE, teach children that not all dogs are the same.
www.pawswithnoflaws.com

09/02/2022

What a story!

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.

05/02/2022