When we say we care about homeless pets, we really mean it.  CharlieDog and Friends -- our fledgling toy company -- was launched in 2012 not because we love stuffed animals, but because we wanted to do something to help America's homeless pets.  Or at least, in the  early going, animals in our area, in downstate New York.  

And so we threw ourselves into a business we knew, literally, nothing about.  But we took a page from small animal rescue oper...

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