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Putting dogs together with people is great fun.
Animal rescue is a task that never ends, but everyone involved wishes it would. I saved a tiger once and that was really hard, but most of my involvement has been tagging along behind my wife Tracy at the easy end: dogs. The fun part is that your customers are always grateful, but it carries the downside that you can’t save them all.
I guess if you have enough money or can raise it, then you can make serious inroads on the problem. In Utah, there’s an animal refuge called Best Friends Animal Society. I try to send them a little donation every year based on having visited and seen how many different kinds of creatures they are saving, one at a time. Their motto is:
Save them all!
I ran across Best Friends following up on the welfare of the fighting dogs confiscated from Michael Vick. Best Friends was one of ten rescue groups that stood up to take on socializing Vick’s fighting dogs. While I have always believed that dogs have to be trained to be mean, I thought semi-pro dog fighters would have attended to that training and the pit bull terriers that were veterans of the ring would be goners.
I know of only one that had to be euthanized; the vast majority lived out their lives as family pets. Those not considered well enough…
