From the Doggie Pound… Callie the rough pup was a puppy mill mom we took her away from that life she’s coming along slowly, she’s so sweet tempered but she looks like a Ragamuffin 10 minutes after being groomed so she looks all hagerty for most of the day.
And then there’s Abby She’s been with us since she was 6 weeks old and spoiled R O T T E N, I can’t wait till Callie gets that way…;^B
NY Daily News – ASPCA to chip in $1M to help homeless dogs, cats find new homes
Response Products, of Broken Bow, Neb., is voluntarily recalling Cetyl M for Dogs, because the product could be contaminated with salmonella.
Police dog relieved of duty – The supervisors of a western Pennsylvania township have relieved a police dog of his duties because he bit a 9-year-old girl off duty. The dog’s handler will be given the option of buying him for $1 and keeping him as a pet. If the officer passes, others will get a chance to buy the dog for $1. Township officials say the dog will not be destroyed.
Veterinary college will offer free eye exams for service dogs – For a third consecutive year, the Virginia Maryland-Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech will join with the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists and Merial Inc. and participate in the Service Dog Eye Exam Month this May.
Dogster brings us a video of yet another dog rescued from an ice floe.
NECN – Washer machine specifically tailored to clean dog…WITH VIDEO
LA Times – Defending champion Lance Mackey in great position to win the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
USA Today – Jamaican musher having fun at Iditarod The 27-year-old Jamaican musher competing in the Iditarod brings a humor and candor to the 1,100 mile race this year. Newton Marshall jokes about the cold, having a female in heat on his team, and running in the darkness in this story in the Alaska Dispatch.
BBC – Dog lucky to be alive after swallowing football.
Unleashed – Domestic violence protection for pets in Md?
Fred the Dog (center) in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
Daily News – “Former shelter dog Fred, who made his debut on Broadway in ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,’ is now living in the lap of luxury on the Upper West Side.”
ohmidog! – Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s campaign going to the dogs
Unleashed - Ceasr Millan, Dog Whisperer lit 500 candles for his dog that passed away
NYTimes – “You’ve heard of the Six Million Dollar Man. How about the Six Thousand Dollar Dog?”
Telegraph - Anarchy in the UK over leaked government discussions regarding dog control legislation.
LA Times – Cash-strapped Los Angeles going after unlicensed dogs to raise funds
Fox News – Bomb sniffing black lab receives top British military honor
Spokesman – Washington State University veterinarians say a meatball found on a Spokane woman’s property contained strychnine – the same poison thought to have killed dogs in North Idaho last spring.
Dogster interview – Lisa Spector, concert pianist, is co-founder of BioAcoustic Research & Development, where she presided over the groundbreaking music and canine research conducted with 150 dogs.
Baltic, the dog rescued from the icy sea is back to work
74.8 million dogs are owned in the United States alone; according to the National Pet Owners survey. With such an enormous amount of dogs living in U.S. households, I started thinking, where do they all come from? Alarmingly, 99 percent of dogs and puppies sold at pet stores, which is where most dog owners get their pets, come from puppy mills. So, I took a trip one day into a local Santa Monica pet shop, to inquire about the cute puppies they have for sale. When I walked into the less than suitable pet store that these dogs were living in, I noticed a cute black pug puppy for sale. Read More…
PENNSYLVANIA — Dogs Deserve Better’s Tamira Thayne and volunteers visited dogs left chained outside in Pennsylvania during the coldest night of the year, 7 degrees with a wind chill of -11. After helping two underweight chained dogs, both with inadequate shelter, by providing them with straw, food, and water, and returning three days later in a second attempt to speak to the caretakers, she was charged with defiant trespass. Read More…
