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Rescue

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Members are invited to submit information about the activities and achievements or rescue organizations or individual dogs that have been rescued and their families. Submissions should be sent to Merrie Meyers using the email icon below. Please include contact information with the submission.

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Cheyenne Lord

Rescue Dog Follows Her Heart into Agility World

Deborah Wachter, of Orange County, California, has always found that shelter dogs bring a one-of-a-kind experience to their adopted families. For her 8-year-old rescue dog Paisley, that was an introduction to the agility world and…

Rescue | April 21, 2025

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Kate J Kuligowski

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Seldom do my husband Wally and I find ourselves in the Southwest quadrant of our city where crime statistics have intimidated outsiders for decades. During that visit, we frequent only one business, a decades-old, hole-in-the-wall…

Rescue | July 3, 2020

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Kate J Kuligowski

A Work In Progress

“What is it with that man? I have no time for this!” PACA (People’s Animal Cruelty Association) volunteer Gloria had been growling about the stranger who had been following her every move for the last…

Rescue | April 1, 2020

Jen Reeder

Be sure to watch Jill Rappaport, DWAA Keynote Speaker, on Animal Planet’s “The Dog Bowl”!

We are so inspired by the work of Jill Rappaport, a tireless advocate of senior dog adoptions…and an upcoming keynote speaker at the DWAA Awards Banquet on Feb. 10 at the Hotel New Yorker! Please…

Rescue | February 1, 2019

Jen Reeder

Celebrate Adopt a Senior Pet Month with Posts and Progress

Our friends at The Grey Muzzle Organization are teaming up with DWAA Vice President Laura Coffey this month to shine a light on senior dogs! Here’s more from them: There’s never been a better time…

Rescue | November 2, 2018

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Lisa Begin-Kruysman

New Rescue Anthology from Major Publisher Features DWAA Members

Reprinted from Ruff Drafts, Fall 2018 On September 18th, Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, released a new rescue anthology titled Second-Chance Dogs: True Stories of the Dogs We Rescue and the Dogs Who…

Rescue | October 3, 2018