by NCCF Editor | Sep 3, 2018 | Support Dog Cancer Research
Daisy Ledger, a 24 year-old woman from Abingdon, Oxfordshire has gone Triathlon-mad in order to raise much-needed funds for cancer research in dogs. Moose was a loveable Labrador, an important part of the family and Daisy’s childhood pet. The Ledger family sadly lost...
by NCCF Editor | Aug 24, 2018 | Canine Cancer Treatment
Doctors at the Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital (part of the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University) are testing a new treatment for mammary cancer in dogs, involving nanoparticles designed to cling to cancerous cells once...
by NCCF Editor | Jul 25, 2018 | Losing a Pet
There’s a day in every pet owner’s life that we know is coming but try our best not to acknowledge until it finally arrives. May 14 was that day for my wife and me. Lucy, the half Labrador-half golden retriever that my wife raised from a weeks-old puppy, died at the...
by NCCF Editor | Jul 11, 2018 | Support Dog Cancer Research
Barking and baseball, a night out at the ballpark helped raise money in the fight against canine cancer. WEAU’s Danielle Wagner and her dog Missy led the Bark in the Park Dog Parade around the baseball field at Carson Park before the Express game. According to...
by NCCF Editor | Jul 10, 2018 | Canine Cancer Research
Dogs have been man’s best friend for more than 10,000 years, but a new study shows it has been a doggone tough road to get here: their ancestors in the Americas likely came from Siberia, and these early dog populations almost totally disappeared, but not before...
by NCCF Editor | Jul 3, 2018 | Dog Stories
This is a story of friendship, a story of love, of heartbreak, of a dog that brought a bunch of sassy ladies across the country together and changed our lives. When my Golden Retriever, Bailey, passed over Rainbow Bridge in the summer of 2015, I locked myself away...
by NCCF Editor | Jun 29, 2018 | Dog Stories
Who said bucket lists were just for people? When the Ledford family adopted a St. Bernard named Odin in November 2017, they were overjoyed to welcome him into their family. But months later their feelings turned to sadness when they were given the news that their...
by NCCF Editor | Jun 27, 2018 | Losing a Pet
Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never owned a dog. If you’ve ever lost a beloved pet, you know just how true that old adage is. From dogs to cats to canaries to lizards, we humans form unbreakable bonds with our furry, feathered, and scaled friends. In...
by NCCF Editor | Jun 21, 2018 | Canine Cancer Treatment
Josie, a terrier mix from Owings Mills, Md., was the first dog to survive a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins Hospital aimed at finding a treatment for hemangiosarcoma, one of the most deadly cancers for pets. Josie was diagnosed in December 2017 with cancer in the...
by NCCF Editor | Jun 8, 2018 | Losing a Pet
It was day three, and I knew it was time. Three days earlier, my beautiful dog Molly refused to eat. It was unheard of for a dog who spent the first few months of her life as a stray foraging for food wherever she could find it and never, ever refusing anything edible...
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