Six kids honored for kindness to animals
Six kids from across the nation — including a Maryland girl who volunteers at Frederick County Animal Control — have been named winners in the American Humane Association’s Be Kind to Animals Kid...
View ArticleKarma Dogs introduces “oath of kindness”
Karma Dogs, a nonprofit organization that rehabilitates rescued dogs into therapy dogs, has announced the launch of its Oath of Kindness (OK) program — a way for children and teens to pledge to be kind...
View ArticleReading to dogs at Catonsville library
After a nearly year-long hiatus, Ace went back on duty as a Karma Dog over the weekend, attending the first HEARTS (Help Encourage All Readers to Succeed) session of the season at the Baltimore...
View ArticleMayor Dixon takes the Oath of Kindness
Mayor Sheila Dixon, during her appearance at BARCStoberfest Sunday, agreed to take the Karma Dogs “Oath of Kindness,” administered on the spot by Karma Dogs co-founder Kelly Gould. Karma Dogs (of which...
View ArticleSquatting and plotting in Federal Hill
For the past week, Ace and I have been enjoying the latest in our continuing series of lodgings — digs that have ranged over the past eight months from boat to trailer, motel room to tent, friend’s...
View ArticleRandom act of kindness saves Bella
Lisa Ison was going through a rough time four years ago when she met Bella, a Pekingese-Pomeranian mix, at an animal shelter in Denver. “I was depressed. I was lonely. It was a real hard time and she...
View ArticleWater for Ace
How nice is this? Ace and I were taking the mile-long walk down to the end of Figure 8 Island and back on Sunday when we stopped to meet some other dogs — a golden retriever named Mac and a black Lab...
View ArticleAnother unlikely friendship: A dog and a fox
We humans, with our vastly superior intellects, and being the far more evolved and civilized species, don’t need no stinkin’ animals to show us how to live life. Do we? You’d think not — especially...
View ArticleThe homeless man and his white dog
For more than a decade, they were a familiar sight around downtown Salisbury, Maryland — the homeless man and his silky white dog. You could often find them stationed outside Benedict the Florist, or...
View ArticleA neighborhood reunites with a former stray
If you’re going to be a stray dog, you might want to be one in Oak Brook, Ill. It’s one of Chicago’s wealthiest suburbs — the kind of place with well-manicured lawns to pee on, porches and gazebos...
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