Dog’s Best Friend

COEUR d’ALENE - It’s like speed dating, or filling out a profile on a match-making site, except the partner you’re looking for just got off death row.

Oh yeah, this partner isn’t for romance, per se, but a best friend - the kind with four legs.

“I don’t do, ‘put to sleep,’” says Bonnie Whiting, the dog trainer and dog lover who started her own nonprofit, Alternative Rescue, that saves dogs from that euphemism euthanasia, sometimes minutes before the final curtain. “I don’t do death.”

Luckily for 300 dogs, and their matched-up owners, Whiting doesn’t.

That’s how many dogs she has taken in, and adopted out, in the four years she has been running the business at the Coeur d’Alene Pet Resort at 125 E. Hazel Ave. - a 100 percent success rate, she says. Tom Hasslinger, Cda Press Full story.

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