http://westvillagedog.com Saving One Dog At A Time Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_43" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Charlie & Sailor"][/caption] Several weeks have passed since the new additions to the family have arrived home to my parents house and they are already a part of the family.  Charlie is a Bernese Mountain Dog and Sailor is a Golden Retriever.  My parents were finally ready ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=42 [caption id="attachment_34" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Sophie and Lo preparing for the walk!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_35" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="The rain wasn't stopping this little one!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_36" align="aligncenter" width="231" caption="Team SMK!"][/caption] We spent the rainy Sunday morning with lots of pups all in the name of raising awareness and money for research on Cancer in both ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=37 I am participating in a DogWalk at Riverside Park here in Manhattan on May 3rd. I think it is fantastic that the American Cancer Society is having a walk focused on both Dogs and Humans with Cancer. I know myself and my family had a very hard time ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=30 Waking up to the sun brightly shining through my window in the morning gives me hope that the Winter's chill is slowly but surely headed into hibernation. Last Fall I discovered a program called Outdoor Bound (not to be confused with Outward Bound,) which is based here in New York City. ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=24 The idea of "buying" a dog from a pet store makes my blood pressure rise quite a bit, I can't lie. Then to see that pet stores actually put dogs on clearance/sale...well that just makes me a crazy person. Sometimes I try to pretend as though the people who are ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=18 We were told by the locals in Exuma, where we rescued Sophie, about the meaning behind the name "Potcake." They told us the name came from the stories of the locals on the island who would feed the stray/mixed breed dogs the caked remains from their cooking pots. There ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=11 I knew very little, actually had never even heard the word "Potcake" until our trip to Exuma, Bahamas. Our intentions for the trip were not to come back with a puppy, but that is what happened. Sophie was being kept in a pen on a beach by an inn keeper ... http://westvillagedog.com/?p=8