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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 Contact:
Linda or Allen Anderson
Angel Animals Network
POB 26354, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426
Email: angelanimals@aol.com, Phone: 952-925-3309, Fax: 952-925-4729
Websites: www.angelanimals.net, www.rescuedsavinganimals.net, www.angeldogswithamission.com
San Rafael Author Featured in New Dog Book
Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1, 2008
– San Rafael’s Maria Frianeza Rios and Kobi, a yellow Lab and beloved
family pet, made national news with the dog’s exceptional sense of smell and
his intelligence. Kobi became one of the most famous cancer-sniffing dogs in
the world by contributing to The Pine Street Foundation’s breakthrough research
for combating this deadly disease. Rios says, “Kobi’s cancer-sniffing prowess
was featured on the Today Show, a BBC television documentary, and other
national news outlets but to me, he was a wonderful and fun-loving family pet.”
The story of how Rios, a senior accounting manager at Luasfilm in
San Francisco, teamed up with a talented dog to facilitate cancer research is
featured in a new book, Angel Dogs with a Mission: Divine Messengers in
Service to All Life by authors, Allen and Linda Anderson (New World
Library, October 1, 2008). The book is a collection of twenty true stories
about dogs who found their purpose in life and gave without expecting a return.
Today,
Rios and her husband, Richard Rios, live in San Rafael with their rescued dog,
Yogi. Rios also travels around the world with the LIKHA Pilipino Folk Ensemble
performing Philippine folk dancing. She wrote this story as a tribute to a dog
whose dedication to the work inspired the Pine Street Foundation to name a star
after him: Master Kobi, Scientist and Friend.
Allen
and Linda Anderson are founders of the Angel Animals Network
(www.angelanimals.net), inspirational speakers, clergy members, and authors of
the award-winning Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster as well as nine
other books in the popular Angel Animals series. Marc Bekoff, PhD, professor
emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, wrote in the foreword for Angel Dogs with a Mission: “This book will
change your life and the lives of those with whom you share it.”
As
with the hugely popular Marley & Me, dog lovers will be inspired and
entertained by the dramatic human-and-dog journeys in this new book. The
amazing stories provide laughter, proof that miracles are possible, and tears
-- the good kind.
Amelia
Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horses Mouth, says, “This book is a
tribute to the fact that many of our most effective doctors, nurses,
therapists, police officers, emotional counselors, rescue workers, and
spiritual teachers have four legs instead of two.”
New World Library, ISBN-13:
978-1577316022, ISBN-10: 1577316029, Black & White Photographs,
Trade paperback. Available at bookstores nationwide, Internet bookstores, and
at www.shop.angelanimals.net(autographed by authors).
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