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					<option value="portuguese-podengo">Portuguese Podengo</option>
				
					<option value="portuguese-podengo-pequeno">Portuguese Podengo Pequeno</option>
				
					<option value="portuguese-pointer">Portuguese Pointer</option>
				
					<option value="portuguese-sheepdog">Portuguese Sheepdog</option>
				
					<option value="portuguese-water-dog">Portuguese Water Dog</option>
				
					<option value="pudelpointer">Pudelpointer</option>
				
					<option value="pug">Pug</option>
				
					<option value="puli">Puli</option>
				
					<option value="pumi">Pumi</option>
				
					<option value="pyrenean-mastiff">Pyrenean Mastiff</option>
				
					<option value="pyrenean-shepherd">Pyrenean Shepherd</option>
				
					<option value="rafeiro-do-alentejo">Rafeiro do Alentejo</option>
				
					<option value="rat-terrier">Rat Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="redbone-coonhound">Redbone Coonhound</option>
				
					<option value="rhodesian-ridgeback">Rhodesian Ridgeback</option>
				
					<option value="rottweiler">Rottweiler</option>
				
					<option value="russell-terrier">Russell Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="russian-toy">Russian Toy</option>
				
					<option value="russian-tsvetnaya-bolonka">Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka</option>
				
					<option value="saluki">Saluki</option>
				
					<option value="samoyed">Samoyed</option>
				
					<option value="schapendoes">Schapendoes</option>
				
					<option value="schipperke">Schipperke</option>
				
					<option value="scottish-deerhound">Scottish Deerhound</option>
				
					<option value="scottish-terrier">Scottish Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="sealyham-terrier">Sealyham Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="shetland-sheepdog">Shetland Sheepdog</option>
				
					<option value="shiba-inu">Shiba Inu</option>
				
					<option value="shih-tzu">Shih Tzu</option>
				
					<option value="shikoku">Shikoku</option>
				
					<option value="siberian-husky">Siberian Husky</option>
				
					<option value="silky-terrier">Silky Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="skye-terrier">Skye Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="sloughi">Sloughi</option>
				
					<option value="slovensky-cuvac">Slovensky Cuvac</option>
				
					<option value="slovensky-kopov">Slovensky Kopov</option>
				
					<option value="small-munsterlander-pointer">Small Munsterlander Pointer</option>
				
					<option value="smooth-fox-terrier">Smooth Fox Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="soft-coated-wheaten-terrier">Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="spanish-mastiff">Spanish Mastiff</option>
				
					<option value="spanish-water-dog">Spanish Water Dog</option>
				
					<option value="spinone-italiano">Spinone Italiano</option>
				
					<option value="st-bernard">St. Bernard</option>
				
					<option value="stabyhoun">Stabyhoun</option>
				
					<option value="staffordshire-bull-terrier">Staffordshire Bull Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="standard-schnauzer">Standard Schnauzer</option>
				
					<option value="sussex-spaniel">Sussex Spaniel</option>
				
					<option value="swedish-lapphund">Swedish Lapphund</option>
				
					<option value="swedish-vallhund">Swedish Vallhund</option>
				
					<option value="taiwan-dog">Taiwan Dog</option>
				
					<option value="teddy-roosevelt-terrier">Teddy Roosevelt Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="thai-ridgeback">Thai Ridgeback</option>
				
					<option value="tibetan-mastiff">Tibetan Mastiff</option>
				
					<option value="tibetan-spaniel">Tibetan Spaniel</option>
				
					<option value="tibetan-terrier">Tibetan Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="tornjak">Tornjak</option>
				
					<option value="tosa">Tosa</option>
				
					<option value="toy-fox-terrier">Toy Fox Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="transylvanian-hound">Transylvanian Hound</option>
				
					<option value="treeing-tennessee-brindle">Treeing Tennessee Brindle</option>
				
					<option value="treeing-walker-coonhound">Treeing Walker Coonhound</option>
				
					<option value="vizsla">Vizsla</option>
				
					<option value="weimaraner">Weimaraner</option>
				
					<option value="welsh-springer-spaniel">Welsh Springer Spaniel</option>
				
					<option value="welsh-terrier">Welsh Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="west-highland-white-terrier">West Highland White Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="whippet">Whippet</option>
				
					<option value="wire-fox-terrier">Wire Fox Terrier</option>
				
					<option value="wirehaired-pointing-griffon">Wirehaired Pointing Griffon</option>
				
					<option value="wirehaired-vizsla">Wirehaired Vizsla</option>
				
					<option value="working-kelpie">Working Kelpie</option>
				
					<option value="xoloitzcuintli">Xoloitzcuintli</option>
				
					<option value="yakutian-laika">Yakutian Laika</option>
				
					<option value="yorkshire-terrier">Yorkshire Terrier</option>
		</select>
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        <option disabled selected>By Dog Group</option>
        
        <option value="herding" data-name="Herding Group">Herding Group</option>
        
        <option value="hound" data-name="Hound Group">Hound Group</option>
        
        <option value="non-sporting" data-name="Non Sporting Group">Non Sporting Group</option>
        
        <option value="sporting" data-name="Sporting Group">Sporting Group</option>
        
        <option value="terrier" data-name="Terrier Group">Terrier Group</option>
        
        <option value="toy" data-name="Toy Group">Toy Group</option>
        
        <option value="working" data-name="Working Group">Working Group</option>
        
        <option value="foundation-stock-service" data-name="FSS">FSS</option>
        
        <option value="miscellaneous-class" data-name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</option>
    </select>
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<p><a href="http://www.grass-tx.org/">Golden Retriever Acres Senior Sanctuary (GRASS)</a> has a main house and an enormous backyard for the senior and special needs Goldens to roam free. But when the flooding from Hurricane Harvey ensued, it hit GRASS especially hard.</p>

<p>&ldquo;It was really scary. The water rose so quick that by 11 in the morning it was waist deep in this house,&rdquo; Joshua Radcliff, manager of GRASS, told Click2Houston. &ldquo;We had all dogs brought to the front of the neighborhood and they were picked up by their fosters.&rdquo;</p>

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<p>As soon as local volunteers realized how much GRASS had been impacted, they jumped at the opportunity to help. &ldquo;When I heard about how bad it was, my family and I came down here,&rdquo; volunteer Delaney Johnson said. &ldquo;We scrubbed the wood to get this place back up and running.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Another volunteer, Laura McLaughlin, explained the importance of rebuilding a place that is so special to so many dogs. &ldquo;I think the fact that they take in older dogs and give them the chance to enjoy the rest of their lives is a great opportunity,&rdquo; she said.</p>

<p>For Radcliff, it&#39;s imperative to get GRASS restored so that he can continue his mission of helping the senior Goldens&mdash;sometimes right until the very end. "We will not allow a dog to pass alone. So I am present during every one," he said, choking back tears. "I deal with it often, but it&#39;s rewarding. Just knowing that dog had a golden year, golden month, weeks or days makes everything worth it."</p>

<p>Currently GRASS&#39; Goldens are staying with foster families until the facility is restored, but they remain available for adoption. It is Radcliff&#39;s hope that people will continue to open their hearts and their homes to these special dogs. "When they are rehabilitated and re-homed and they find a forever home where they are loved and cared for, that is the most fulfilling feeling I have ever had," he said.</p>

<p>To view the dogs available for adoption at GRASS, <a href="http://www.grass-tx.org/our-dogs/available/">click here</a>.</p>

<p>To donate to GRASS&#39; recovery efforts, <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/senior-k9-care-campaign">click here</a>.</p>

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