Hard times are not only impacting the ability of people to feed their families but also the ability of people to feed their pets. The strain on many food banks is not just food for people but for dogs and cats, as many food banks have taken to offering pet foods. Often these supplies run out long before the line ends and many are left empty handed.

In Fort Worth, TX, one food bank, the Tarrant Area Food Bank, got an unexpected delivery from a business celebrating its opening by making a 9k donation worth of dog food.

Christy Howard owns Three Dog Bakery in Southlake and to celebrate her opening, she and her five English mastiffs, Dutchess, Danica, Daisy, Diesel and Dozer, piled into her SUV, loaded with 3000 packets of dog food and made the donation to Tarrent Area Food Bank.

Christy’s Southlake store and Three Dog Bakery company in Kansas City are splitting the cost of the donation. A Laguna Beach, CA native, Christy has been a dog love since she was a child and has also volunteered at an animal shelter.

Christy and Three Dog Bakery, if they could, I’m sure all the dogs that will be recipients of your good will and kind donation would thank you!!

Kodi, 8 month old Golden Retriever puppy, stolen and forced to fight by neighbors, dead

It’s always heart wrenching when a beloved pet is lost or stolen. You wonder where they are, how they are doing, if they are safe and being care for. For on Paris, TN family, the answers to these questions came four days after their beloved 8 month old Golden Retriever puppy, Kodi, went missing, and the answers were a nightmare!

This is the pitbull that was forced to fight and kill Jennifer Davis' stolen puppy, Kodi. His fate is still undecided.

Jennifer Davis’ puppy, Kodi, went missing on Friday and four days later his body was found behind a neighbor’s home. That’s when Jennifer found out, all too sadly, what happened to her sweet, playful puppy.

Three neighbors stole her dog, tied it to a tree and forced it to fight a pitbull for their own sick fun and thrills. Jennifer was told what happened by the youngest of the three who stole her dog for their brutal sport.

“The subjects actually tied a golden they tied the retriever and pit-bull together. They were kicking and pushing the dog’s heads’ together, in different forms of torture to entice the dogs to fight,” said Sheriff Belew.

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Last week I wrote about the horrific abuse a number of Tulsa, Oklahoma dogs have been suffering at the hands of an unknown piece of human trash and now the reward is up to $5000.

There have been five dogs found with severe burns along their back. Someone set the dogs on fire after pouring a caustic material on them.

Three of the five dogs did not survive the abuse. Two others, a boxer, which has been named Winston, and a pitbull, named Pepe, have both pulled through their terrible injuries and are recovering, Winston is with Tulsa Boxer Rescue and Pepe is is with the Humane Society of Tulsa. Both dogs will be able to be adopted once they are recovered enough.

Police are taking these crimes very seriously!

“We consider this very serious,” Tulsa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Willie Lewis said. “You have heard of a ‘gateway drug.’ We consider this a gateway crime, where people start out abusing animals — which is very serious — but then it goes on to the abuse of human beings, also.”

Investigators think the dogs were abused by the same people. The dogs were found between Pine Street and 66th Street north and Cincinnati to Yale Avenues.

A witness came forward and told investigators that the person responsible for the abuse may have been driving a red 1980s model Ford pickup truck.

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What great news for Cassidy, the German Shepherd, who was born with a deformed leg. But not only is it great news for the dog, this groundbreaking surgery has possible future benefits for people too!

A pioneering North Carolina State University collaboration between a veterinary surgeon and an engineer will give a deserving dog the ability to walk on four legs again.

Cassidy, a male German shepherd mix, was born with a defect in his right hind leg. His owner was referred to NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2005 in order to have the defective limb removed. Three years later, Cassidy is back, this time for surgery that will replace the lost leg with an osseointegrated prosthetic limb.

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