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All the dogs around here excited, barking...running around happy licking faces of fifteen or so humankind come to maybe find a mascot. It's a fun day at Jay Dee's Paws with Hope rescue compound. Visitors at Paws With Hope Meet and Greet Dog lovers congregated, united in sentiment---it's cliché, I know, to say dogs are mans' best friend, but folks here sure seem to believe it. These rescued dogs were maltreated or sick animals found homeless and in need of medical help. So give credit to Jay Dee---she works like mad as an instrument of succor. She does more than bless animals like priests do on the feast day of Francis of Assisi , not to imply blessings don't help. But Dee goes out on the streets and looks for malnourished and homeless dogs. She shelters and bathes them. She feeds them. She pays for veterinary aid.  Rescued dogs at Paws With Hope Compound ''Unfortunately I cannot take in more until some get adopted and I catc...

Since its domestication 3000 years ago, the storied history of horse and man together exemplify special bonding---the loyalty of horse to man---the love of man for horse. FLAMENCO TAN NOBLE The cinematic prestige of movies like ''Seabiscuit,'' ''National Velvet'', ''War Horse'' and ''The Black Stallion'' treat of this deep esteem for the noble equine characteristic. A less heralded yet equally deserving acclaim champions the horse as healing benefactor to mentally retarded people. Patient at Empoderamiento Con Caballos Marthy Ch, a nurse for The Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador, also works with therapeutic horses and those patients whom she calls her ''babies'' at Empoderamiento con Caballos, (Empowerment with Horses)--- an organization directed by clinical psychologist Christini Ring and located in the Cotacachi area of Imbabura Province in Ecuador. ''Horses ...

Take notice about it. It's akin to when a dead blue jay bird is discovered in the front yard of his house by a five year old boy---nobody needs to teach that five year old what his instincts do. The temporal nature of life exemplified in the bird's corpse is sobering. The boy realizes he too will die. Almost none of us talk about it---the subject of death. We hide it under a blanket named the cares and concerns of daily living. Undertaker cosmeticians meanwhile dress the deceased to appear as if in deep sleep. It is all of it understandable; yet so momentous the passage from life to death, is it not worthwhile to suggest it be afforded thoughtful and considerate preparation? Wills put in order. Funeral arrangements made. If death is imminent, farewells extended to family and friends. But is there a responsibility to prepare to die for the sake of oneself? Is there duty to contemplate the matter, to weigh the pounds and measure the feet of what is the last a...