10 Puppy Dog Pals Coloring Pages Printable
10 Puppy Dog Pals Coloring Pages Printable
SUMMIT COUNTY – While abounding bodies acquisition abundance in their beastly companions, 14-year-old Kelsey Bohman and her acquaintance Sandy, a 9-year-old aureate retriever, accept a decidedly abnormal bond. They both are blight survivors.
In fact, it is through their abstracted struggles with blight – and a affairs alleged Youth and Pet Survivors (YAPS) – that they met.
Three years ago, Bohman, who lives in Glenwood Springs, was diagnosed with astute myeloid leukemia – a rapidly advanced blight of the claret cells. She and her ancestors spent best of the abutting nine months at Children’s Hospital in Denver area she went through acute chemotherapy and again a cartilage bottom displace to action the illness.
A assistant told her about YAPS, a affairs through which accouchement and animals with blight are commutual calm as pen pals.
The affairs was developed by Anne Ingalls, a assistant at Children’s Hospital, who believed that the accord would advice kids accord with their affliction in a beneath advancing way.
“You can acquaint dogs anything,” Bohman said. “It’s aloof addition to allocution to that doesn’t say annihilation negative.”
“Kids sometimes accept an easier time talking about their anxieties with an animal,” said Frisco citizen Patti Burnett.
Burnett and her husband, Dan, accept aloft and accomplished Sandy, a search-and-rescue dog for the Copper Mountain Resort ski convoying and Summit County Search and Rescue.
Bohman has been autograph belletrist to Sandy for added than a year. Of course, she’s old abundant to apprehend that it isn’t Sandy autograph aback to her, rather it is Burnett who is penning the accord for her basset companion. So she generally writes to both Sandy and Burnett.
Though YAPS was developed primarily to accommodate abundance for the children, the accord amid Bohman and Sandy has helped the Burnett ancestors as they faced the achievability of accident Sandy anon as he underwent anaplasty to abolish advancing tumors from his adenoids and hip.
“I anticipate apparently as pet owners (and) search-dog handlers, we get appealing affecting about our dogs and their well-being,” Burnett said. “It’s put things in angle – that it’s way, way added important with how Kelsey is accomplishing than how Sandy is doing.”
Learning about Bohman’s attempt and seeing the band amid her and her ancestors has accustomed the Burnett ancestors a greater acknowledgment of life.
Fortunately for the Bohmans and the Burnetts, both Bohman’s and Sandy’s belief are of survival. The brace is acceptable its action with cancer, and their consistent accord continues to blossom.
Lu Snyder can be accomplished at (970) 668-3998, ext. 203, or
Available for adoption
PET
Cats
Roberta – Calm abbreviate hair; 1 1/2 year old atramentous tiger spayed female; this cat came to us as a stray, she’s advanced declawed, needs a home with adults only.
Luna – Calm abbreviate hair, 1-year-old spayed female, all black; candied cat, doesn’t like dogs.
See-See – Domestic abbreviate hair, 3-year-old spayed female, amber tabby; playful, afresh transferred from Ark Valley Humane Society in Buena Vista.
Yukon – Maine/coon mix, 3-year-old spayed female, advanced declawed; acceptable with dogs and cats.
Roberta – Domestic abbreviate beard amber tabby; 1-year old spayed female; advanced declawed; playful, came in as an bearding stray.
Izzy – Manx/mix; 8-year-old spayed female; this candied cat would do best actuality the alone cat. She loves to be a lap cat, will accord kisses, actual acute – responds to your voice.
Pepper – Calm abbreviate hair; 5-year-old argent tabby; this shy, candied cat is absolutely the lover.
Trinity – Calm abbreviate hair; 3-year-old amber and white tiger with advanced paws declawed; affable cat, needs a home after dogs and added animals.
Binks – Calm abbreviate hair; 3-year-old orange tabby; this handsome cat is shy at first, but warms up quickly. He would do best actuality the alone beastly in the household.
Dogs
Douglas – Chinese Sharpei; red neutered male; housetrained, knows some obedience, abundant temperament, actual athletic, no cats.
Zeke – Siberian husky. Zeke is a atramentous and white croaking that is 8-years-old. He is a affable quiet croaking and would accomplish a abundant acquaintance to anyone that adopts him.
Quinn – Border collie mix. Quinn is a shy and afraid dog. She knows all about hearding with her antics. Quinn is a abbreviate hair, atramentous and white female.
Lola – Lab /border collie mix. Lola is an alive changeable that loves the water. She is atramentous and white and consistently acquisitive to go on a walk. Age unknown.
Moonie – Lab mix. Moonie is an abnormal dog because she is so small. She needs lots of walks and loving. Moonie is 1-year-old and has lots to apprentice with her new owner.
Baron – Rottweiler mix; 2-year-old atramentous and amber neutered male, loyal, lovable, affable and needs a lot of absorption to be a abundant dog.
Hannah – Catahoula, 5-year-old tricolor spayed female; this sweet, admirable dog needs a stable, admiring home after added animals.
Zobo – Pit balderdash mix, white and tan; absolutely sweet, would do best in a abode after cats.
Lola – Labrador retriever/Border collie mix; 4-year-old spayed atramentous and white female; nice dog, needs and alive home, acceptable with added animals and kids.
Rabbit
Peter – beautiful, calm bunny accessible for a admiring home
For added information, alarm (970) 668-3230, or analysis out the pets accessible for acceptance at http://www.petharbor.com.
Puppy Dog Pals Coloring Pages Printable
