Thursday, May 29, 2008


Here's a new easy way to raise money for your favorite cause. Just start using GoodSearch.com as your search engine and online shopping mall. Every time you search the Internet or make an online purchase at one of their partner merchants, GoodSearch makes a donation to your favorite nonprofit or school and it's powered by Yahoo! so you get great search results!


I just learned about this search engine. A donation is made to your registered charity every time you use it!
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation is registered and imagine, you can donate money to help all of the poor homeless puppies just by doing what we do every day, searching the internet! Give it a shot, it does not cost a thing and I had great success with every search that I have tried.

Friday, May 2, 2008

An amazing article from Parade.com...



Zip Saved Me From an Insulin Reaction

By Karen Hayes
Published: May 1, 2008

"Thank God for Zip..."
My 2-year-old toy poodle, Zip, saved my life when he was only 7 months old. I have been a diabetic for 28 years. The day before this happened was Memorial Day. My brother brought his girls over to swim in our pool and eat boiled shrimp with all the fixins.

Well, I had too much fun and apparently I didn’t eat enough. I was not hungry so I didn’t even eat a little snack before I went to bed.

Around 2 a.m., Zip, who sleeps between my husband, Peter, and me in bed, woke Peter up whining and scratching his face. Peter asked him what was wrong. Immediately, Zip jumped over to me and started whining. Peter reached over and tried in vain to wake me; he knew immediately what was wrong. I was having an insulin reaction. He called 911.

When the ambulance got to the house and tested my sugar, it was only 31, way too low. The normal blood sugar is 80-120.

During the whole ordeal, Zip stayed on my left shoulder. My Granny would take him off the bed and he would jump right back on the bed in the same place.

I knew when Zip started fetching at only 7 weeks old that we had something special, but I didn’t know how special until this happened. Zip has alerted me about 6 times since that day, every time I have tested, and my sugar has been around 50.

I thank God every day for this wonderful little dog.

This adorable couple reminds me of Vinnie and Shea

A paternal dog has adopted an abandoned baby goat as his surrogate child. Billy the boxer has become the constant companion of the 12-day old kid called Lilly. He sleeps with the goat, licks her clean, and protects her from any dangers at Pennywell Farm wildlife centre at Buckfastleigh, near Totnes, Devon.