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Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary (OFSDS), officially Old Friends Senior Dogs, Inc., is a nonprofit animal rescue group in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. It focuses on the rescue of elderly, "senior" dogs from shelters where they are otherwise likely to be euthanized.
Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries, where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
If the risk is from human intruders, a suitable dog can be simply trained to be aggressive towards unrecognized humans and then tethered or enclosed unsupervised in an area that the owner wishes to protect when he is not around (such as at night); the stereotypical "junkyard dog" is a common example of this. If the purpose of the dog is to ...
A Brentwood, Tennessee Girl Scout Troop is using proceeds from their cookie sale to make sure lost dogs are returned to their owners, by using the funds to purchase and install pet microchip ...
A service animal is an animal that has been trained to assist a disabled person. The animal needs to be individually trained to do tasks that directly relate to the handler's disability, which goes beyond the ordinary training that a pet receives [3] [4] and the non-individualized training that a therapy dog receives.
A dog acted heroically outside a Florida home when it stepped between its wounded owner and a knife-welding man, authorities say.. The owner and her dog were slashed and stabbed multiple times in ...
A Tennessee cop allegedly shot and killed seven dogs with a rifle during an animal welfare check while their guardians were out to dinner. Connor Brackin, the now former McNairy County Sheriff’s ...
In order to protect the jurisdiction and handler of the dog, should a lawsuit be filed, these dogs often carry a minimum of one million dollars in liability insurance. Many qualified dogs carry such policies as a part of the certification process, such as the courthouse facility dogs provided by Canine Companions for Independence.