K9 Service Dog Memorial


Palm Harbor:


Pinellas County Sheriff ’s Deputy Anthony LoRusso and his K9 partner Mars honored Koda, his previous K9 partner, during the annual K9 Service Dog Memorial at Curlew Hills Memory Gardens. “Koda was always in overdrive and never missed a thing. I missed some things, but he always pulled me through. I’ll never forget my partner. I miss him every day, still,” said Officer LoRusso. There are nearly 60 K9 service dogs currently interred at


Curlew Hills Memory Gardens in the Garden of Heroes. Curlew Hills Memory Gardens has one of Florida’s only authentic pet cemeteries and donates burial plots to all service animals of law enforcement agencies. CurlewHills.com


Golden Retriever/Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retriever mix. Photography by Anna Cooke.


Deputy LoRusso and Mars. Officer Barbara Baugher and Kudzu, a


At GhostPupsters Academy, 46 adoptable dogs, fresh from Paws on Parole, were introduced. The prison-based dog training program pairs adoptable dogs from Alachua County Animal Services with inmates from the Florida Department of Corrections and the Alachua County Jail. The dogs live with and are trained by the inmates over the eight-week program, learning the basic skills


necessary to pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen test. The adoption fee for the dogs is only $30 and includes spay/neuter, microchip and vaccines. PawsOnParole.com


Winter Park: 13th Annual Doggie Art Show Land O’Lakes: Woofstock


(Left): Maury Poglitsch with Gozer, who was being adopted during the event.(Above): Willow, after her


swim. Photography and rover reporting by Diane Rosenberg and Willow.


Gainesville: Paws On Parole Graduation


Central Park was the beautiful setting for the 13th Annual Doggie Art Festival, presented by The Doggie Door boutique. Pet-related artists, vendors and rescue organizations participated. Proceeds benefited the Sebastian Haul Fund, an organization that helps Greyhounds reach their new families. We were particularly smitten with artist Meryl Rachlin’s custom 3D pet portraits (above left). Volunteers from the Harbor House Paws for Peace program attended. Harbor House is a domestic violence shelter, offering the only on- site kennel in Central Florida for the pets of domestic abuse survivors. HarborHouseFl.com; SebastianHaulFund.org. Photography by Joyce McCombs.


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Pasco County Animal Services hosted its spring Woofstock bash at Florida Estates Winery in May. (Top): We met Turbo, an 11-year-old Westie and his housemate, Winston, a four-year- old English Bulldog.(Bottom): Ginger is a five-year- old miniature Australian Shepherd.


Photography by Anna Cooke www.TheNewBarker.com


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