On a military base in Afghanistan, five puppies provided a bit of comfort to five U.S. Marines.
Today, all of those puppies are in the U.S., and one of them is in Waupaca.
Rosie is the name of the puppy now living here with Brian and Bonnie Anderson.
“My son said Rosie won the puppy lottery,” Bonnie said.
Last December, her son, a U.S. Marine, was on his second deployment in Afghanistan when a dog snuck onto the base and soon gave birth to five puppies.
Pen has recently completed his 2nd visit of the year to the Nowzad shelter in Afghanistan.
Check out this fab video and see what he got up to on this visit.
As you are all aware Pen is climbing mountains all over the UK and other parts of the world to raise money and awareness for Nowzad.
Pen has recently completed part 2 of his ‘Feeding the Rat’ challenge in Morocco by climbing to the summit of Jebel Toubkel.
Check out these great videos of part 1 of the challenge in the USA and part 2 in Morroco
Pen recently visited the Nowzad Shelter in Afghanistan and made this fab video. Please continue reading to view the video
To that end, the animal activist and founder of beauty-products company PRAI is giving $55,000 to rescue neglected dogs through Nowzad Dogs, a grass-roots animal-rescue organization started by former marine sergeant Pen Farthing.
The gift is through Beauty with a Cause, an organization that helps animal-welfare organizations around the world funded through a percentage of her company’s profits……
When John Steele decided on a name for his Afghan rescue German shepherd mix puppy Kaiah in September, he merged two distinct and contrasting components — the site of the first base (Kabul) he frequented in the mountainous, war-torn Southcentral Asian country with the a Hawaiian name (Native American origin) meaning “rare beauty.”
Remember our little chap Reorg? Well he got released from quarantine in October 2010 and this great news story was done about him.
Please click below for the video
Our very own Brin the miracle dog got his own spot on the news just recently.
Please see the video below for the full story……..
We took some footage of a recent trip to the shelter.
Fun was had by all as you will see from the videos!!
Staff Sgt. Steve DePalma returned home from his tour in Afghanistan one week ago. Since then, he says he has spent most of his time with his wife, Nancy, and their pets– especially the most recent animal addition to the family; their dog, Connie, who Sgt. DePalma rescued while serving overseas.
“She was my battle buddy in Afghanistan and I brought her home with me,” he said.
