Hero Dog Awards: Vote for Daniel

by Naomi Seldin Ramirez

Jenna Dwyer of Nutley holds Daniel at Pets & Heroes in River Vale. The beagle, who was adopted by Jenna's family via Eleventh Hour Rescue, won the American Humane Association's Emerging Hero Award. (Photo by Chris Monroe/Special to the Record)
Daniel the beagle is one of the American Humane Association’s Hero Dog Award finalists.
The sweet-natured gas chamber survivor, who lives in Nutley, received the most votes in the Emerging Hero category. More than 2 million votes were cast across all eight categories — and while I don’t have a breakdown for Daniel’s, he likely received a good chunk of them to clinch victory.
He “did the unimaginable in 2011 when he survived the most inhumane form of euthanasia: the gas chamber,” AHA said in a news release announcing the finalists. “Since adopted by his loving guardian, Joe Dawyer, Daniel the ‘Miracle Beagle’ has used his second chance at life as an advocate for shelter adoptions and humane euthanasia legislation across the United States.”...Continue reading...