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"Old Faithful": Celebrating Grey Muzzles in Photographs

Older dogs, with their greying fur and sagging jowls, have a special beauty. This beauty is wonderfully captured in a series of portraits by Toronto-based photographer Pete Thorne. On October 27th, photos from this collection will be published in a new book, entitled Old Faithful: Dogs of a Certain Age from HarperCollins Publishers. We are...

Harley: The Little Senior Dog Who Became a Big Hero

When Harley - a now 14-year-old Chihuahua - was rescued from a commercial dog breeding facility, he was not expected to live another three months. Like many breeder dogs in puppy mills, he had spent his life up to that point confined to a wire cage and denied proper medical care or even the most...

Susie-Belle: Her Life Began the Day She Left the Puppy Mill by Janetta Harvey

Janetta Harvey, author of Saving Susie-Belle and Saving One More, is a writer and commentator on the international puppy breeding industry. Susie-Belle, her now 11-year-old Schnauzer, was rescued and adopted four years ago after having spent most her life in a dog breeding facility. When Susie-Belle joined our family in August 2011, she could have...

A Match Made in Heaven by Laura Coffey and Lori Fusaro

This story is an excerpt from the new book My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts by Laura Coffey with photos by Lori Fusaro. My Old Dog offers a collection of stories about senior shelter pets finding love - and sometimes fame. This excerpt is reprinted with permission from New World Library. It’s...