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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#183A53;text-transform:
none;font-weight:normal'>I saw this article on the Fox News website yesterday
and got a warm fussy feeling. I wonder if there is any way to contact this
vet to get more information and maybe help with our homeless babies as well
some rescues. It seems like a really neat program.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#183A53;text-transform:
none;font-weight:normal'>Homeless Pets Help War Vets Work Through Troubles<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=date4 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday, December 21, 2009 <img width=93
height=17 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CA82E2.05FA9B10"
alt="http://www.foxnews.com/images/service_ap_36.gif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><strong><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>WASHINGTON —
Dave Sharpe was troubled by thoughts he couldn't share after he returned from
serving in Iraq. "I found myself waking up in the middle of the night,
punching holes in walls, kicking and beating the refrigerator door," he
said.</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Then one
day, the former <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580800,00.html"
target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#183A52'>Air Force</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;
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src="cid:image002.gif@01CA82E2.05FA9B10"
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senior airman went with a friend to a local pit bull rescue and took home a puppy,
Cheyenne. Next time he found himself kicking something, "I saw this puppy,
cocking her head, looking up at me, like, what are you doing?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Finally,
Sharpe had someone he could open up to. "I froze, I put down my drink, I
picked her up and laid with her in my bed," he said. "I cried and I
told her the whole story. I didn't feel judged."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The
experience inspired Sharpe, of Arlington, Va., to start Pets2Vets, a group that
pairs veterans with homeless pets by arranging adoptions of shelter animals. It
has made two or three matches a week since its start in October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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