Michele Allen

If you don't know how sick they are, sometimes you just find them passed away in their kennels and that's just a sad ending for a dog that deserves to be so loved.

In losing Monkey the grief was really, really tough and the greatest thing we could do was push through our grief in honoring him, and Monkey loved other dogs.

I used to take sick dogs and say, 'Well I can handle this -- I used to be a nurse.' Now I think I was a nurse and that was my preparation for this.

He's an invisible statistic. He's the one that got out, the one that 37,000 people on Facebook know about, care about, send good thoughts about. It's pretty amazing that he's getting all this love now and that his ending is very different than I think probably the rest of his life was.