Pen Farthing

Pen Farthing

Pen Farthing, who founded a nonprofit that reunites soldiers at home with stray dogs and cats they took in during combat, has been named the 2014 CNN Hero of the Year.

"There is no stronger bond between man and dog than that formed during war," Farthing said Tuesday evening.

The announcement was made Tuesday night at New York's American Museum of Natural History, where Anderson Cooper hosted "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute." Ref. CNN