Groups work to find foster homes for heartworm-positive dogs

Staff report

CANFIELD

Ozzie, a labrador and great dane mix, is one of the 19 formerly heartworm-positive dogs saved so far thanks to “Do Your Part and Save a Heart,” a program that provides treatment.

Jenny Crowe stopped by Angels for Animals on a whim, because she was heartbroken over the loss of her own labrador. She immediately fell in love with Ozzie, a dog saved by the heartworm treatment.

She and her husband adopted him at the beginning of November. “He is so lovely,” she said. “He is part of our family; he has run of the house.”

Crowe said the fact that her dog had heartworm “wasn’t even a blip on my radar.” She hopes other people aren’t discouraged from adopting dogs from the program.

“Do Your Part and Save a Heart” is operated by Angels for Animals and Friends of Fido, and it helps dogs at the Mahoning County Dog Pound.

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