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A Kabul Animal Rescue Is Racing To Airlift Hundreds Of Pets Out Of Afghanistan : NPR

Staff members at the Kabul Small Animal Rescue are working to put together travel crates so the organization’s dogs and cats can safely be evacuated out of Afghanistan.



Kabul Small Animal Rescue

The staff at the Kabul Small Animal Rescue has been working around the clock to pull off what feels like the impossible.

The mission? Fundraise at least $1.5 million for a cargo plane that can airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the rescue organization’s staff, and their families out of the capital safely — all in less than a week and while the Taliban are breathing down their necks.

The group is rushing to beat the Aug. 31 deadline for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. If the staff is still on the ground when that deadline passes, “all bets are off,” Charlotte Maxwell-Jones, the American director and founder of the Kabul Small Animal Rescue,

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Look at-In: Pet dog Sitting : NPR

Host Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton focus on the ups and downs of short-expression canine ownership, known to several as “dog sitting down.”

Listened to on ‘Better Phone Saul & The Mandalorian’s Giancarlo Esposito Hacks.

JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from stunning Brooklyn, N.Y., it can be NPR’s hour of puzzles, word video games and trivia, Request ME A further. I am Jonathan Coulton. Now this is your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Howdy, Jonathan.

COULTON: Hi, Ophira. How’s it heading? What is actually new?

EISENBERG: We’re pet dog-sitting.

COULTON: Oh, that’s remarkable.

EISENBERG: Yeah. So fundamentally, a person of our neighbors reached out becoming like, hey – simply because they have a pup named Noisette (ph). Appear on.

COULTON: Aw, incredibly cute.

EISENBERG: So they stated, would any individual in the creating just take treatment of our doggy for a several times?

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Get To Know The Past Top Dogs : NPR

Four dog breeds are newly eligible to compete in this year’s Westminster Dog Show. They are (from left) a Barbet, a Biewer terrier, a Belgian Laekenois and a Dogo Argentino.

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Four dog breeds are newly eligible to compete in this year’s Westminster Dog Show. They are (from left) a Barbet, a Biewer terrier, a Belgian Laekenois and a Dogo Argentino.

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The 145th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is this weekend, and there’s a lot to yap about.

For the first time, because of the pandemic, the show has moved 28 miles from inside Madison Square Garden in Manhattan to the outdoors, on the grounds of the 67-acre Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, N.Y.

Spectators and vendors will not be allowed at the event in compliance with the state’s COVID-19 regulations. You’ll be able to watch or stream it on Fox.

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