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He was nine when he asked his mother if he could spend his Saturdays doing this. She thought it was a phase. She told him yes, expecting to drive him there twice and then to hear no more about it. He has been showing up at the same corner for fourteen months now. He uses his own allowance for the kibble when his mother forgets to buy it. He keeps a notebook. He writes the date and the number of dogs that came. He gives them names, even though he knows they aren't his to name. There is one he calls Rocket because the first time she came she ran across the street and skidded to a stop in front of the bowl. His mother goes with him because he is nine and she is not going to let him sit alone on a sidewalk. She sits a few steps back. She does not interfere. He has asked her not to. A neighbor on that block started leaving a bag of kibble at the curb on Friday nights, so it would be there for him on Saturday mornings. He has never met the neighbor. He has never asked who it is. There are people like that across the local partners we fund. People who decided to do this before they were old enough to be cynical about it. We're Rescue Paws. A small team with a huge purpose. We make handmade natural-stone bracelets and ship them to a community of 25,000+ people across a dozen countries. I know how this kind of ad reads. Another brand using dogs to sell something. I get it. Here's how it works. You buy a bracelet. You wear it. Each bracelet helps us provide 10 meals to abandoned dogs, through the local partners we fund. Every month, we send you photos from the feeding operations. I want to be honest with you. Not every corner works. Some have no dogs after the first month. A neighbor calls the city. A partner has a hard year. But the corners that do work, work because of one person who decided they were going to keep showing up. Sometimes that person is younger than you would expect. They don't know yet how easy it is to stop doing things. They just keep showing up. A customer wrote to us in March. Her name was Joan. She was 62, a retired bookkeeper in a small town in Ohio. She had one grandson, who was eight. She wrote : "My grandson lives three states away and I see him twice a year. I have struggled with what to send him that isn't a toy that ends up in a closet by Christmas. I bought one of your bracelets in January. I wore it for two weeks. Then I called my daughter and asked her if she thought he was old enough. She said yes. I sent him one. He texted me from his mother's phone a week later. He said the dog in the photo looked like the dog his neighbor used to have, that moved away last year. He understood, in his way, that this was different from the toys I usually send. I am ordering four more today. One for him. One for his friend from school, who he says is sad about something. One for my daughter. One for me to keep with the photos I save." We sent the four with one extra inside Joan's package, in case she wanted to give one more later. She wrote back the next month. The extra had gone to a teacher at her grandson's school, on her grandson's request. There are people in your life who started doing something when they were small and never stopped. A cousin who has been writing thank-you notes since she was seven. A friend who started visiting her grandmother every month when she was eleven and has not skipped one in thirty years. The kind of person who keeps a corner exists, and sometimes they are still in elementary school. We don't see them because they don't perform. Over 500,000 meals have been provided since we started. Eight colors of natural-stone bracelets are available. They are made by hand. Order one tonight, and we'll send you a photo every month from one of the corners. Somewhere this morning, a nine-year-old sat on a sidewalk at a corner with a bowl in front of him. His mother sat a few steps back. The dog he calls Rocket was probably the first to come. You don't have to do anything. If something here landed, you can pick a bracelet, and we will keep showing you what is happening on the other end. https://therescuepaws.com/products/rescue-paws-bracelet