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Cat-Loving Volunteers Have Become Dogs’ Best Friends

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By Ara Stamm –  Patt Seleen and Jeff Johnson (no, not Executive Director Jeff Johnson) began their volunteering journey with Can Do Canines in 2022. A couple for over thirty years, they’d always had cats as pets. However, when their…

Mobility Assist Dog Zet Provides Balance for all of Davis’s Life

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Zet, a black Labrador Retriever, snores. He tends to splay his hind legs, making him look “like a car with a bent chassis,” according to his partner, Davis.  But ever since the first moment these two met, when Zet put…

Why There Will Not be Any Poppy Puppies This Week

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Poppy, a 2-year-old Golden Retriever, was expected to give birth to her first litter on June 30. We had a veterinarian confirm her pregnancy using ultrasound about halfway through the 60-day gestation period, as we typically do. Since those ultrasounds…

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