Blog Entries ( Lab )

Meet Ivy

December 1st, 2009
Written by Jennifer O'Shea | Posted in Personal Stories

My project dog for the day: I volunteer at a dog shelter in Westchester County, New York. I go there every weekend and walk the dogs. Recently, I spent four hours working with a little black Lab puppy because she had just come up from the South and was terrified of people. It took an hour of that time to get her used to me. I sat ...

Lost in Love: A Found Home for My Dogs

June 25th, 2009
Written by Kimberly Brown | Posted in Personal Stories

Greetings All! This is my first blog, and I would like to introduce and share a little about myself. I recently relocated to Silver Spring from Los Angeles, where I was the happy mom of two shelter pups, Kiki, a min-pin, and Komet, a Lab mix.  Well, actually, the two were not puppies. Kiki and Komet were both approximately six-years old. Unfortunately, due to my marriage separation and ...

How Time Flies

June 10th, 2009
Written by Neil Fahlstrom | Posted in Personal Stories

Back in 2007, my family had urgently tried to contact me after the Interstate 35W bridge had collapsed into the Mississippi River. I had been attending a class near the bridge and they wanted to make sure that I was ok. Just last March, one day before my birthday, my family was once again trying to urgently reach me. I was just getting out of the ...