Christian Science Monitor: The Dog Rescuer

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/0110/The-dog-rescuer?cmpid=editorpicks&google_editors_picks=true

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Putnam, Conn. — As Greg Mahle, unshaven and road-weary, pulls his 12-wheeled rig into the parking lot of an auto parts store here on a sunny Saturday afternoon, he looks through the grime of nearly 3,500 miles that has collected on his windshield since we left his home in Zanesville, Ohio, five days ago. In front of us are a couple dozen people, many of them children, clapping and waving signs of welcome. It’s a scene Mr. Mahle has witnessed here almost every other Saturday for the past 10 years.

His cargo? Approximately 80 very fortunate “rescue” dogs – dogs once lost, abandoned, neglected, or abused; many were just hours away from being put to death in “high-kill” shelters in Southern states. Over the past five days Mahle, whose not-for-profit operation is called Rescue Road Trips, has driven from Ohio to Texas and along the Gulf Coast picking up dogs saved by various rescue organizations to bring them to the Northeast. The people waiting? Families filled with anticipation and ready to welcome the dogs into their new homes. This day, when dogs and their new families are united, is known in rescue parlance as “Gotcha Day.”

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