Pet-adoption surge creates demand for "puppy nannies"
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in pet adoptions in many areas, with kennels and breeders barely able to keep up. The demand for pets coupled with ongoing travel restrictions also has a unique business booming: Pet nannies, who help transport animals to their new owners around the country.
Kristen Fallon and her kids were at New York's LaGuardia Airport to meet the newest member of their family: Rex, a mini Bernedoodle puppy. But getting tiny Rex to New York was a big pandemic problem. "Our breeder is in Colorado. So, we couldn't exactly fly from the East Coast out to Colorado. So, you need someone to transport them," Fallon told CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.