This blog was originally posted on One Green Planet. One thing’s quite obvious when you look at a picture of Bear the Pit Bull: He can’t see — at least, not through his eyes. At just one year of age, Bear was hit by a car and wound up at an emergency vet with severe injuries … Continue reading One Green Planet: This Dog May Have Lost His Eyes, but His Heart Just Keeps on Growing
(By Laura Lee Cascada / Photographs by Annie Blumenfeld) Meet Teddy. Four years ago, he bounded into Connecticut teen Annie Blumenfeld's life and changed it forever. Now, in 2016, Teddy spends his days watching chickens and roosters peck around the neighborhood, eagerly awaiting his next adventure with each walk and car ride. He lives a … Continue reading This Shaggy Dog Beat Heartworms–Now the Art He Inspired Is Saving Others Like Him
It was late one evening in the spring of 2015 as a carload of us--my wife, Rachel, and I, along with two friends--were making the long trip back from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park to my parents' home in the Ka'u District halfway around the Big Island. We'd just hit a straight stretch of road outside … Continue reading The Pup from Na’alehu
