Showing 47 posts from November 2008
Source: MyFox, Created: Thursday, 20 Nov 2008
ST. PAUL, Minn. — An eight-month Humane Society investigation into Petland, Inc. stores has found the country’s largest chain of puppy-selling pet stores is tied to cruel puppy mill operations.
Minnesota connection
Petland has Minnesota stores in Shakopee and St. Paul. Humane Society of the United States investigators visited puppy mills [...]
Source: BBC News, Nov 20, 2008
A man from north Oxfordshire has credited his pet Rottweiler with sniffing out his skin cancer.
Chris Tuffrey, from Banbury, had a mole on his chest for 15 years but “put his head in the sand” and ignored it.
But he said thanks to his dog Beamish “nuzzling and licking” him and [...]
Source: <cClatchy Newspapers, By DR. GREG McGRATH, Wednesday, November 19, 2008
At this time of year, veterinarians are especially concerned about what their patients may be eating.
You’ll see our warnings about feeding repeatedly because around this time of year, every year, we see pets brought in with very preventable illnesses caused by improper feeding or a [...]
Source; Newsday, by Denice Flam, Animal House, November 20, 2008
It made for a lot of cute jokes about being “biting mad” over everything from his master’s imminent departure to liberal media bias. But there’s nothing funny about the bite that Barney, President George W. Bush’s Scottish terrier, gave a Reuters reporter recently.
Had Barney been a [...]
Source: Houston Chronicle, Nov 18, 2008 by Lana Berkowitz
Bunny is a bundle of problems.
First of all, she’s a dog not a rabbit. It’s painfully obvious that her legs are deformed so that she can’t walk. And because of setbacks caused by Hurricane Ike, she needs a home.
She’s also a bundle of happiness.
Bunny was about 3 [...]
