Ellen really loves her dogs Wolf and Mabel; it was a few years ago she was looking for some dog food for Wolf who was allergic to everything.

Ellen explains, “I tried everything, our vet tried everything and finally I found a little company that had the perfect food for him. It’s called Halo, Purely for Pets.

So, because I think Halo is incredible, I decided to become part owner in hopes that all animals have the chance to be the healthiest they can be.”

Ellen is amazed by dogs, explaining, “We think we’re so much smarter than animals. Dogs can understand what we’re saying, but we can’t understand what they’re saying. Doesn’t that make them a little bit smarter?”

Closer to home, the Los Angeles, California-based Task Force 2, and Fairfax County, Virginia’s Urban Search and Rescue unit each deployed six teams of human-dog partners.

The California team was trained by the non-profit Search Dog Foundation. The pups include a Baxter, a rescued golden retriever; Dawson, a border collie; and Cadillac, an energetic, shiny black lab originally bred to be a guide dog.

Donations to the non-profit Guide Dog Foundation — and the latest news on the teams’ activities — can be made at www.searchdogfoundation.org and clicking “Donate.”

Please keep these brave humans and pups in your thoughts as they perform such gruesome and difficult work.

This video of Aiden the amazing Afghan comes from Sharon Ferraro in Montauk, NY, who writes that “Our dogs love the Halo food!” Who needs Madison Avenue advertising firms when Halo customers send us videos like this? You don’t want to miss it!

See the video here.

Anne Good’s Daily Dog Blog

“(She) didn’t have any hair at all on each side when we got her,” Ellen says. “When we started feeding her Spot’s Stew, she just changed, she got a full coat and soft fur.”

Ellen’s huge heart for animals began as a child. Her first rescue was a mockingbird she found at camp. “It was a baby bird that had fallen out of a nest,” says Ellen, who brought the bird back home, nursed it to health, and brought it back to the tree at camp before setting it free. She is now the mom of two dogs and three cats, all rescues.

Also, her pets play favorite: their poodle Mable loves Portia, their other dog, Wolf, loves them both, and one of the cats loves Ellen best. Or at least she likes to think that, Ellen says.

Check out the interivew.

With a neighbor’s house on fire one night in late January, Brandon bee-lined it to their backyard, where four puppies and their mother lived. “It shocked me, he was gone so fast,” says Brandon’s mother Kandy. “We were worried about people inside and he was worried about the dogs. He said, ‘What about the puppies?’ and he was gone.” In seconds, Brandon emerged with four puppies in his arms, and then retrieved their mother, Bell, a Rottweiler. “I am so very proud of him,” says Kandy. “I have always been proud of him, but this grabbed my heart.”

The home’s owner, Junior Lynch, was also touched. He gave Brandon, of Sylacauga, Alabama, one of the puppies, a rottweiler-lab mix named Bruno. And when Halo co-owner Ellen DeGeneres got wind of Brandon’s feat, she flew him and his mother to Los Angeles to appear on her January 30 show. Ellen told Brandon,“I have a pet food company called Halo, and it’s great food, it’s good for animals and I’m going to give you a year’s supply for your puppy.” Then she presented Brandon with a $10,000 scholarship for college, and a five-day trip to Disney World, where he and his family will be honored. “She was fun,” says Brandon of Ellen. “She jokes during the show.”

Brandon’s lifelong love of animals propelled him to action that day. He’s wanted to be a veterinarian for as long as he can remember, and Ellen arranged for him to follow a veterinarian; already, says Brandon, he’s watched vets do surgeries. “When I was little I had stuffed animals, rabbits and bears and when we went outside I liked to look at the squirrels,” he says. “I had fish, birds, rabbits, iguanas and a snake.” Now, his only pet is Bruno.

The trip to Los Angeles was Brandon’s first time on a plane. “It wasn’t scary,” says the sixth grader. “It was like a ride at the carnival.”

Saving the puppy and receiving Ellen’s recognition, says Kandy, “has been a turnaround for him. He’s more of a pet person than a people person, now he’s more positive about everything, about school. More motivated.”

Label #1: 
The ingredients of Halo Spot’s Stew. 

Label #2: 
The ingredients of a leading national brand of (human) chicken soup.

Then we took our twisted ingredient challenge to the streets of LA. We showed random soup lovers both lists of ingredients and asked them to pick which they’d want to feed to their family.

Which do you think they chose?

See the Ingredients Challenge video to find out!

Award-winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has become an owner of Halo, Purely For Pets®. “If you love your pets, you only want the very best for them, and this food is the highest quality.”

Watch Award-winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and Dr. Donna Spector a board-certified veterinary internist who practices in New York City discuss Halo, Purely For Pets®. Dr. Spector has written and lectured extensively on nutrition, diabetes in dogs and cats, gastrointestinal disorders and other animal health issues.