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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> dog stories<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></p><div id=ygrp-mlmsg><div id=ygrp-msg><div id=ygrp-text><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>In these turbulent, sad days, we need a happy dog story.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>This is about 1,000 dogs and 100 cats that, instead of being euthanized, on Friday headed out in private planes toward happy adopted lives.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>A family to throw Frisbees for them. Kids who&nbsp;need to cuddle with them at night. A wagging tail that brightens the end of a bad workday.</span><o:p></o:p></p><h2 style='background:white' id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448221428760_11565"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Want to adopt an animal?</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Go to the <a href="http://www.wingsofrescue.org/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448221428760_11567"><span style='color:#0066CC'>Wings of Rescue website</span></a> and click &#8220;Holiday Airlift 2015&#8221; for a list of participating shelters.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>A batch of about 100 dogs and a few cats arrived at Paine Field in Everett from Van Nuys Airport on a Fairchild Metroliner twin-engine cargo plane.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>You could hear the barking even before the door was opened.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Hey, what would you do if you had been in a stack of dog kennels for nearly four hours? The outnumbered cats were considerably quieter.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Waiting for them were workers and volunteers for shelters that included the Skagit and Kitsap County Humane Societies, PAWS and the Noah Center.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>100 dogs and 10 cats arrived in Seattle Friday, part of 1,100 California shelter animals due to be euthanized that were flown by the Wings of Rescue group to shelters in Washington and throughout the region. (Erik Lacitis / The Seattle Times)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>By now, the crews had a routine. Line up the kennels on the tarmac right outside Castle &amp; Cooke Aviation. Check the paperwork. Start loading into the lined-up vans for the drive to the shelters.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>These shelters have been part of <a href="http://www.wingsofrescue.org/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448221428760_11580"><span style='color:#0066CC'>Wings of Rescue</span></a>, based in Woodland Hills in Los Angeles, for a year or more, meeting the planes once or twice a month. On Friday, two leased cargo planes and 23 smaller aircraft flew out the 1,100 dogs and cats, &#8220;our biggest holiday airlift ever.&#8221;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;backgr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