Halo Pets Blog

Improving the well being of pets and the people who love them.

Flash with the rescue team

Dog Runs Away To Find Missing Elderly Woman

It’s always scary when a pet runs away from home. However, the Ward family in Durham, England, had an extra joyful reunion with their dog, Flash, after he disappeared overnight. While away from home, Flash managed to find a woman who had been missing since the day before! According to The Telegraph, an elderly woman
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Playing with your dog

Horsing Around With Your Dog!

One of the topics on this week’s Dog Talk® was a lively conversation I had with Marc Bekoff, the dog expert and educator, who has written too many impressive animal-oriented books to list! Marc is a fun and modest gentleman – despite his Phd and many accomplishments – and he likes to encourage us to
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GreaterGood.org and Wings of Rescue flying previously-sheltered pets to make room for pets displaced during Hurricane Harvey

How to Help: Harvey Relief for Pets (and People)

Halo is ready to donate food where it is most needed in the rescue effort, in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States Animal Rescue Team, GreaterGood.org, and Freekibble, as part of an overall 200,000 bowl donation commitment to relief. HSUS and GGO have an agreement with Corpus Christi, TX and will be on the ground working
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Ralph the teaching assistant

British Dog Helps Students in School’s Calm Room

High school can be full of stress for students. Sometimes that stress leads to serious mental health problems if it’s left unaddressed. Thankfully more and more schools are finding ways to help students with their mental health, the same way school nurses help with physical health. One school in England is not only part of
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Forever Curious Shares Service Dog Information

An interesting non-profit, Forever Curious.org, reached out to me after hearing some of the radio shows I’ve done about various types of service dogs, in particular service dog organizations that provide dogs for children with autism, diabetes and other special needs. Forever Curious is an unusual non-profit, a self-proclaimed “labor of love” by a group
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