Inspire

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Shelter Pup

But when Senator Franken talks of good days and bad days on the campaign trail, he speaks in this case of losing a dear friend. “Without question,” Franken recalls, “The worst day of our campaign was the day about two years ago when we had to put down our black Lab, Kirby.”

Jen Flatt Hilsher, founder of On The Fifth Day and its Animal Rescue Keystone, is one of the largest no-kill animal sanctuaries in America.

Dogs love unconditionally, forgive easily, and are happy effortlessly. Dogs don’t care about the colour of our skin, the size of our bank accounts nor our IQs, astrological signs, or zip codes. They accept us as companions as easily (and sometimes more easily) than they chum up with other dogs and, remarkably, they seem just as willing to love and nurture other non-canines as well, as the following stories show.

“There was Lump, my Dachshund. I used to put him in my paintings when they needed something to make them lighter and more amusing.”

How one small dog started leaving her mark.

A down-on-her-luck Dachshund finds her forever home

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Making the world safer, one square metre at a time

Three-legged Wonder Dogs