Awards for Freeing Dolphins and Piano Cat
October 16, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Pets
This year’s ASPCA Humane Awards recipients are brave, helpful and talented.
In March, I told you how to nominate an animal or person for the ASPCA Humane Awards, and the winners have just been announced.
The ASPCA Dog of the Year award went to Archie, an eight-year-old black Labrador retriever. Archie is an assistance dog and social lifeline for Sergeant Clay Rankin who suffered spinal injuries while serving in Iraq.
ASPCA Cat of the Year is Nora, a five-year-old gray tabby who you may have seen playing the piano on YouTube. A Lithuanian composer even arranged a symphony in her honor! Nora is …read more




