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Just your normal clothes-wearing dog

“I’m going to be a little devil on Halloween.”— Granite, adopted from a Dallas shelter “We named him that because his color looked like the countertop.  “He wears clothes most of the time. He has a...

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Layla helps with post-Army life

Spa day with Layla, a Boxer-Bullmastiff mix. “I got her in Fort Hood, Texas, at one of the local shelters right outside the base.  “I had just returned from my second tour in Iraq and was...

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Jackal practicing for the real thing

“I really don’t have time for random humans in my life.”— Jackal, a blue healer mix “We got her last Thanksgiving. She’s going to be a great hunting dog. She tries to capture any animal she...

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Big Jake sits anywhere he wants

“I was the runt of the litter.”— Jake, a Harlequin Great Dane “The mom had 13 puppies, but only three lived. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces when we got him at eight weeks. He was...

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You name it, Buster will eat it

“My full name is Buster Douglas. I’m a fighter, not a biter.”— Buster, a rescue dog found in Huntsville a couple years ago “He’s a bad dog. He eats everything in sight. He jumps on the...

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Prissy loves squirrels — and ducks, too

Watching for the elusive underwater squirrel-duck.— Prissy, a rat terrier “I got her as a Christmas present. She was only about a year old, so I bought a book on well-trained puppies. It worked. Nearly everything...

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Swayze fancies herself a bus driver

Meet Swayze, an Australian Shepherd “When I was in the Coast Guard everybody called me Sway because we could only use that many letters on our hard hat. So I always thought that when I got...

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Whatever Cleopatra wants, she gets

“Don’t make me come over there.”— Cleopatra, a Boston Terrier “We got her from a friend. I wanted to name her something kind of original. Princess wasn’t very original, so I came up with a princess...