Roberts Pet Care

08/16/2023

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06/27/2023

Meet Valor! ❤️He will be available for adoption soon!

06/08/2023

04/15/2023

Important meeting!

01/25/2023

Mystic,DOB 11-28-17 Gray and white female 40 Lbs

01/23/2023

Everett went home🐶

09/04/2022

08/06/2022

The indomitable Camberley Kate, aka Kate Ward, and her stray dogs in England in 1962.

Camberley Kate was born in Middlesbrough on June 13, 1895. Orphaned before the age of ten, she was brought up by an aunt in a strict religious atmosphere. As a young girl she went into the ministry and eventually found her way to Camberley. In later years, she once claimed to have been a chef in the RMC at the time of the Battle of the Somme, although she would have been only 21 years old.

She also mentioned that she knew what it was like to be homeless.
In 1943, Kate bought a cottage in Yorktown and soon took in her first stray, a dog that was about to be euthanized for lameness.

Over time, the number of dogs in her home grew - some tied to her door, others left in carrier bags, still others brought to her by police or other authorities. By the end of her life, she estimated that she had cared for more than 600 dogs.

Kate and her olive green handcart painted "STRAY DOGS" were a familiar sight in the area as she pushed it from Yorktown to Camberley every day.
She died on August 4, 1979.

08/01/2022

Monday morning- time to head home. Buddy had a fun weekend watching the squirrels.

07/06/2022

Vintage photo, 1925, New York City.
Policeman stops traffic for cat and kitten

06/27/2022

Blue visited us while Texas was a teamster on the Fort Seward Wagon Train. Smart and beautiful dog. We miss her!
Rosie was here for a few days. It was her first time being boarded. What a sweet, gorgeous German Shepherd! 🐕🧡🐕🧡

06/14/2022

OMG! How true 😂

06/13/2022

So simple.

05/17/2022

All so cute!

05/15/2022

Funny.

05/14/2022

Sophie, Josie, and Syd romping outside last weekend. It wasn't so terribly windy. Great spring days!

04/07/2022

03/07/2022

03/05/2022

This is what the entrance to heaven looks like ❤️

03/04/2022

02/13/2022

02/11/2022

Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.

Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.

The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.

He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"

They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."

Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".

At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."

When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

01/15/2022

That's a darn good idea Snoopy!

12/17/2021

Its coming...

12/07/2021

Beautiful little cats!

11/20/2021

😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹

11/18/2021

Problem solved.

11/17/2021

Most people have heard of Koko, the gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. When Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off.

08/20/2021

This should be a fun time!!

08/16/2021

Artist: https://m.facebook.com/ScottMetzgerCartoons

06/30/2021

05/26/2021

A beautiful painting.