{"id":42,"date":"2026-08-01T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:33:14","slug":"the-laf-weekly-tail-wag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/the-laf-weekly-tail-wag\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Rescue Has a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">July 26, 2026 \u2022 Volume 1, Issue 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LAF-Weekly-Tail-Wag-Header.png\" alt=\"The Labradors and Friends Weekly Tail Wag banner featuring the Labradors and Friends logo and the tagline &quot;Good news. Great dogs. Second chances.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LAF-Weekly-Tail-Wag-Header.png 800w, https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LAF-Weekly-Tail-Wag-Header-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LAF-Weekly-Tail-Wag-Header-768x288.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Every rescue has a story. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some make us smile. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some break our hearts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But every one reminds us why we never give up.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the very first <strong>LAF Weekly Tail Wag!<\/strong> Inside, you&#8217;ll meet Gunner, whose second chance is just the beginning; celebrate Anastasia&#8217;s incredible resilience; remember sweet Koopa; and discover wonderful dogs still waiting for their forever families. You&#8217;ll also find ways to make a difference through fostering, volunteering, and donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/4x8uQcU\">&#x2764;&#xfe0f; <strong>Open This Week&#8217;s Tail Wag<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#x1f43e; Featured in this edition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#x1f43e; Gunner<br>&#x1f43e; Anastasia<br>&#x1f43e; Koopa<br>&#x1f43e; Dogs Waiting for Forever Homes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#x1f49b; Help Us Save More Lives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every adoption, every foster home, every donation, and every volunteer makes stories like these possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Want to help?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labradorsandfriends.org\/volunteer\/\">&#x1f3e1; Foster<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labradorsandfriends.org\/adopt\/\">&#x2764;&#xfe0f; Adopt<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labradorsandfriends.org\/donate\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.labradorsandfriends.org\/donate\/\">&#x1f499; Donate<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labradorsandfriends.org\/volunteer\/\">&#x1f64b; Volunteer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thank you for being part of the Labradors and Friends family. Together, we&#8217;re giving more dogs the second chances they deserve\u2014one rescue story at a time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Until next week&#8217;s Tail Wag&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#x2764;&#xfe0f; Friends don&#8217;t let friends go homeless.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014 The Labradors and Friends Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php?post_type=post\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Ripley, celebrate Anastasia&#8217;s resilience, remember Koopa, and catch up on the latest rescue stories, happy endings, and ways you can help from Labradors &#038; Friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rescue-news","category-weekly-tail-wag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}