by NCCF Editor | Dec 5, 2017 | Dog Stories
Sometimes, describing a life as “blue” isn’t a bad thing. It certainly wasn’t in JetBlue’s case. The Aussie, as I often referred to him, led quite a charmed life. My first dog to come from a breeder met us when he was 2 days old. My roommate, Susan, and I visited him...
by NCCF Editor | Nov 24, 2017 | Dog Stories
A “Dog Mom”. Some people might laugh or chuckle when they hear me refer to myself as that. They clearly are not dog people 🙂 I am very much a “dog mom”. I have always considered myself a dog person. I grew up around dogs and they have always...
by NCCF Editor | Nov 9, 2017 | Dog Stories
My dog, Paws, was a Pembroke Welsh Corgi I adopted when I was only twelve years old, and she was only eight weeks old. She was my first dog, and I still remember holding her in my lap on the car ride home, beyond excited to have her in my family. We literally did...
by NCCF Editor | Oct 25, 2017 | Dog Stories
As I was checking in on our Facebook feed I was excited to see the first post from one of our CORE Members who had received this year’s ornament. Kathy’s post about the ornament and her reason for becoming a CORE Member drew me in to reading her entire...
by NCCF Editor | Jul 31, 2017 | Dog Stories
The evening sky was thick with dark gray clouds. There were three volleys of rifle fire. Then silence. A bugler sounded the lonely notes to “Taps.” As friends and fellow patriots saluted, Jeff DeYoung carried his best friend Cena, a hardened Marine combat veteran like...
by NCCF Editor | Jul 21, 2017 | Dog Stories
You might call Lilly a lemon. At least, her owners joke she is. “We were four days away from our first dog show when Lilly got sick,” said Barb Mason, owner of Lilly, a 9-year-old Great Pyrenees. “We started calling her our lemon puppy.” Today, the remarkable...
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