Rufus is a Shar Pei & Golden Retriever mutt & was born on 5-19-06. He was found on PetFinder.com and adopted from the Clinton Co. Humane Society on 7-20-06 at 9.5 lbs. - 18 inches long.
March - 08:
New March 2008 action photos of Rufus are below and on his MtSpace and Dogster.com pages.
October - 07: Habitat for Dogmanity
10:00 – 2:00 PM, October 21st 2007 Help the most deserving animals in the Indianapolis community. Come to Indianapolis Animal Care and Control (IACC) and spend the day building dog houses and working on the grounds of IACC. [more...]
About $100 was raised in one hour for High Country Friends for Life. HDFFL is a network of volunteers that take dogs and cats abandoned at Animal Control, foster them, and then get them adopted through Petfinder.com
Rufus will be making a special appearance in Boone, N.C. during the weekend of August 18th in the parking lot of Lowes Home Improvement Store from 1pm to 2 pm Sat. August 18th to benefit "High Country Friends for Life". If you donate you will receive a photo taken with him and/or a "pawtographed" 8 by 10 color photo of Rufus. Rufus will also be snoring by Bass Lake watching the wild ducklings that week.
July - 07:
Rufus wins first place in the WE tv "Picture Perfect Puppy Contest"! I guess he could be the cutest dog in the world. [See Here]
The Clinton County Humane Society Party Rufus made a personal appearance on Friday July 20th from 5 to 6 PM to benefit the Clinton County Humane Society. A short movie clip is here. During his visit he donated a few items that he has won in his online contests. This event was a special celebration of his 1 year anniversary of his adoption from the CCHS on July 20th, 2006. For donations, "pawtographed" mini posters of Rufus and personal photos were given. Cake and ice cream was served! What fun we all had!
June - 07: RufCam.com Development. "Rufus Cam" is under development and will be used to film promotional live webcasts and video clips of outdoor/indoor events that are viewed from the eyes and ears of Rufus. Rufus Cam uses a wireless color video camera and microphone attached to the top of a harness collar.
May - 07: 'Chickus Magnetus Promotions' is in public beta. Broadcast a live video webcast during your next event or performance from any web page. [more]
April - 07: Dogster.comTakes the Lead in news about food recalls. The Dogster.com homepage about all pet food recalls is [here]. The first pet food recall RSS news feed is now available [here].
Feb - 07: Rufus wins"Cutest Dog in America "
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in NBC Digital Media's Dog Show USA sponsored by Purina! Rufus appeared NBC Today Show on Saturday Feb. 24th with NBC anchors Lester Holt and Campbell Brown [Watch it here].
The new 30 page story book of his trip to the "big apple" is [here].
Rufus's appearance on NBC was mentioned in Dogster's Corporate Blog for Feb 23rd, 2007 [Read it here]. Rufus could just be the cutest dog in the world!
The Clinton County Humane Society Party 
