by NCCF Editor | Feb 10, 2019 | Dog Stories
Stephan Pastis ducked into an Arizona coffeehouse last September and began to grieve. He sketched and cried as he wrote the words, “We put our dog to sleep on Wednesday.” The plot twist was, about 800 miles away, Pastis’s dog was still alive, though her time drew...
by NCCF Editor | Sep 14, 2018 | Dog Stories
Yesterday, we shared a story explaining what happens in your pets final moments if you have to make the hard decision to put them down. Veterinarians and pet hospitals recently responded to a tweet that said that the hardest part of a vet’s job, is frantically...
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 | 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 | May 7, 2018 | Losing a Pet
In late March, my beagle-whippet cross, Minnie, died. Two months earlier, she had been diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma, an invasive cancer of the blood vessels that is rare in humans but kills thousands of dogs every year. We found Minnie at a Melbourne shelter in 2007...
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