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Go to this story about Fred, a loving, homeless dog who deserves a family who will love him. It’s a story that really touched my heart. Also a nice story on why you should adopt a shelter pet.

Written by Chessbuff at On Loving Animals. Chessbuff writes a very gentlemanly blog on Animal Rights, Animal Cruelty, and his volunteer work at The Bloomingdale Regional Animal Shelter. It’s a blog worth checking every day. Tell him “AIR” sent you.

Oh and he also blogs on Chess, but, I’m not that smart.

While I was on a business trip, I spent some time in a book store and found the book “Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World”

I sat down and read excerpts of the book and was really captivated.

In 1988, Spencer Public Library Director Vicky Myron found a little kitten stuffed in the overnight book return bin on one of the coldest nights of the year. He was frostbitten, hungry, shivering, and frightened. Vicky and her Library Board cared for him and decided that “Dewey” (named after the Dewey Decimal System) assume the honor of the residential library cat. Not only is this story about Dewey’s antics in the library, it covers life in the midwestern town of Spencer, Iowa. Dewey lived as the library mascot for 19 years. Vicky Myron was the first one Dewey saw after he was abandoned. And she was the last one he was with when he was sent on his final journey.

This is a very charming book for animal lovers. In fact, I know a *Cat Diva* who would love finding this book stuffed in her Christmas Stocking.