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July 24, 2008

Racer donates vests for police dogs

NASCAR driver Tony Stewart is donating protective vests for police dogs in Indiana and four other states.

The Columbus, Ind. driver is giving 30 vests to the Indiana State Police K-9 unit and 10 more vests for dogs in Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina and Minnesota.

The donation follows a request to the Tony Stewart Foundation from a New Mexico woman who founded a non-profit organization that solicits money to buy the bullet-proof and stab-proof vests for police dogs.

So far, the organization has provided 169 vests in 22 states. The foundation says the vests cost $895 each, meaning the 40 new vests would total more than $35,000.

Stewart will present the vests to state police at O'Reilly Raceway Park west of Indianapolis in Clermont on Thursday.

(Photo by Associated Press)

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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