Dedicated to Dr. Frank Wolf

Thank you for your love of animals, and helping me not only see my potential but reach for my dreams with The fetch Foundation

It has taken me several weeks to write this story, and it will take me even longer to write it or tell it without tears being shed.  As many of you know, I am an animal lover to the extreme. 

May 18th, 2011, after a weekend spent volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, my mom and I were driving back from Utah.  Both happily exhausted from our weekend of physical activity at the gorgeous Utah facility, we drove down through Page, AZ and through the reservation.  It was there on a desolate stretch of highway a hundred miles from nowhere that lives would be changed forever.  Mom was driving and busy Hwy 89 was humming with semi trucks and speeders rushing to there destinations.  I heard Mom’s breath intake a second before I saw the little brown puppy dart in and out of traffic. 

Mom hurled the mini van across traffic to the opposite side of the highway and I jumped out running while it was still in motion armed with nothing but a bag of Bugles.

West Side Story - Journal of a First Responder

The gray and blue motor coach sat motionless; one halogen eye popped from its socket: Steam belching from the amputated radiator. The remains of a small two-seater sports car lays crumpled against the buses’ face. An eerie silence momentarily blankets the air before giving way to the loud screams and moaning of those on the bus.

Sirens screech through the gathering rush-hour traffic, fire-trucks and ambulances make u-turns before pulling up behind the remnants of the furrowed coupé which is now silent. Blue tinted glass crunched beneath the heavy boots of the gathering rescue personnel. Trooper-one, just one of Maryland State Police’s Medical-evacuation (Medivac); helicopter, hovers like a giant dragon fly just before it lands upon Emerald-green grass.

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The fetch Foundation ANNOUNCES GRANT RECEIPT FROM CLOUD STAR FOR FIDO BAG PROGRAM

Scottsdale, Arizona. September 2, 2011 — The fetch Foundation announces our first grant receipt. Cloud Star, produces an all natural line of dog food, treats and grooming products and of course the “Wag More Bark Less” line also has a grant program that helps foundations such as ours achieve great things in the community. Cloud Star’s generous grant will allow The fetch Foundation to put FIDO Bags in the hands of 2 first responder teams.