Margaret’s Dog Mom Story
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...
Memories of Paws: My Dog with Cancer
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...
Andy’s Cancer Journey
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...
‘Goodbye my brother’: A Marine’s loving sendoff for the cancer-stricken dog who saved him
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...