by Sara Nice | Mar 1, 2018 | Canine Cancer Research
It is worse than a swear word in our house. We have been hit with this cancer four times, both in the spleen and in the heart. It is one of the meanest cancers out there, I believe, and I have talked to so many of you who feel the same about it. The NCCF is funding...
by Sara Nice | Feb 28, 2018 | Support Dog Cancer Research
After a long rainy weekend here, I pulled up my chair to my computer with a cup of tea in my hand and a little Border Collie in the window ready to check the NCCF emails from the weekend. I think I probably scared Finn, the little BC quietly resting in the window...
by Sara Nice | Feb 23, 2018 | Support Dog Cancer Research
Steve participated in his company’s “Trim a Tree for Charity” campaign during Christmas. He decorated one of 13 trees at Select Medical’s Mechanicsburg, PA campus in hope of winning first prize. His tree did win first prize, which was a...
by NCCF Editor | Feb 8, 2018 | Dog Stories
It all began on December 5, 2016. That was one of the hardest and saddest days of my life. Our golden retriever Amber had been suffering from oral cancer and she could no longer fight it. This was the day that we decided we had to say good bye to her. Taking her to...
by NCCF Editor | Feb 1, 2018 | Support Dog Cancer Research
I love getting to know more about our CORE Members and their reason they support the NCCF month after month. We could not fight canine cancer without a devoted set of CORE Members like Amanda and her boy Milo. Their story is one of hope, as Milo is a survivor! ...
by NCCF Editor | Jan 31, 2018 | Support Dog Cancer Research
Precision CHAOS-Cancer Sucks Charity Team here! Friends and Clients of Precision CHAOS dog agility training in Lodi, CA joined up and ran in honor of dogs lost (and fighting cancer) in a 3 mile K9 Gladiator Mud Run and Obstacle course in Lone, CA raising money for...
by NCCF Editor | Jan 30, 2018 | Dog Stories
Melissa Davis and her family adopted Kaylee knowing they might not get to have the elderly dog for long. Then they found out Kaylee was dying of cancer, and they were getting even less time than they’d thought. So the Davises were determined to make every single...
by NCCF Editor | Jan 29, 2018 | Dog Cancer Types
In a heart-breaking incident, the entire team of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office gathered in central Arkansas to bid a final goodbye to their beloved dog before he was euthanized. Patji received a hero’s salute on Wednesday, 24 January, when he and his...
by NCCF Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | Losing a Pet
I went to the park Friday to visit a just-departed friend. The sun shone high in the brittle winter sky. A few inches of snow lay underfoot. It was her kind of day. I called her Big Dog and Monkey and mostly, Monk. The Monk. Her given name was Lucy. Lucy was kind and...
by NCCF Editor | Jan 19, 2018 | Dog Stories
MIRACLE dog Cain may now be living on borrowed time, but his courage and determination is giving new hope to owners and their pets. Five years ago the Rhodesian Ridgeback cross was diagnosed with bone cancer in a front paw and underwent major surgery to remove the...
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