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JOIN US THIS SATURDAY - JUNE 20 over at SF/SPCA
Rescue Recycle Renew Adoption FairCome look for our tablehave a great time with all of us! Cats, dogs, birds, bunnies, other small mammals . . . and YOU!San Francisco SPCA invites youRescue, Recycle,...
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STOP THE MICHAEL VICKS OF THIS WORLD
ENOUGHFor NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to even consider meeting with Michael Vick, who was recently released from federal custody for dog fighting, speaks volumes about the NFL.As for Michael Vick,...
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ANIMAL TORTURERSMake my blood boil. Horrified beyond belief. Afraid yet compelled to read one more paragraph. I’m sorry, I like happy endings as much as the next person, they very much make my day, but...
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FARAH aka LADYBUG - update!
Who could resist a face like this? Well, it didn't take long for our little charmer to find a forever home, but it's turned out that there was a glitch in the works,as she reports from Lake Tahoe...
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FROM SNAP TO SUGAR SNAP
Someone had named her "Snap".And snap she did, as close to the rear corner of her kennel as she could possibly be, from anyone who approached her in any way, lunging, baring teeth, growling. So utterly...
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SHADOW DOZES OFF
Sweet dreams, darlin', darlin'."Lay your headUpon my pillow.Hold your warm and tender bodyClose to mine . . . "For the Good Timesby Kris Kristofferson
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None of you could have forgotten our Christmas story this past year . . . posted on our blog December 22, 2008, entitled "Our Christmas Story" . . . starring Pippin and a young man whom we will always...
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SEEN ANY FLYING PIT BULL TERRIERS LATELY??
Meet our newest volunteer, Jonathan, along with a couple of his dogs. He's now teaching our dogs, mostly pitties, the joys of frisbee.The dogs come back in from a frisbee outing, panting happily, tails...
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BANJO DECIDES TO JOIN THE WORLD
Meet Banjo. We believe that he hails from the ancient Isles of Rivatelah, the second dog from there whom we have been fortunate enough to have encountered here at GADAB. Although the people of...
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SOMETIMES TREATS JUST AREN'T ENOUGH
Who would have thought that a dog would notice the small opening between the floor and the elevator? Most of our dogs have never given a thought to that opening but to this dog, not only did he notice...
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FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
anticipation.joy.tummy rubs.Not too long ago, I was contacted by Elizabeth Brock, of Zootoo PetNews, which is a national online site devoted to the animal world in which we are fortunate enough to...
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CIAO, BELLISSIMA
I woke up this morning thinking about one of our dogs. She had two stays with us, the last one lasting for seven months. She was something else. A huge dog, nothing small about her at all....
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VOTE EARLY!!!
ok, this is dorky and self-serving,but I did it anyway.Chase Community Giving is donating $5,000,000 to charities around the USA through Facebook.Chase is donating $5 million to charities in your...
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Take a minute to help us out.
donations matter . . .paypal has a pretty good job with our dogs(you can just click on the paypal banner on the home page of our website, and the dogs do take checks as well.send directly to to their...
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MANNERS ???? . . . . puh-leese
So what to do, for example, with that intact 9 month old who has zero impulse control, has no idea how to harness his energy, which is off the charts, and whom adopters pass by time and time again? We...
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the longest memory
i reach my hand gently and slowly towards youand even after five lovely years together, at times i still see an almost imperceptible head flinchas you shrink ever so slightly away from my hand. I...
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Oh, Errant Blogger
My goodness, not the same spending most of my days at the shelter. The tears still come, especially when I think of Pepper, and days go by as I wonder who is taking out whom to the shelter park. The...
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BELOVED
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on this earth. - Raymond Carver, “Late Fragment”Why does this quote...
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N0T QUITE THE USUAL PUZZLE
In my last life, I created crossword puzzles. I was famous. So famous that I had to retreat to northern Nova Scotia to escape the endless hordes of enthusiasts who pursued me relentlessly. “How, how,...
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OPPOSABLE THUMBS DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Why, yes, I have gained a few lbs. Thank you for asking. Skinny, skinny, skinny. Oh, skinny. That would be the first thing one noticed. The second would be her way of greeting pretty much...
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