Showing 37 posts from September 2009
Source: Cincinatti.com, September 29, 2009
An 80-year-old man who somehow became trapped in the bottom of a 15-foot deep septic tank behind his home has an unlikely neighbor to thank for his rescue – a 9-year-old mutt named Murphy.
Stacey Walsh, who was spending time at her mother’s house two doors down from a home in the [...]
Source: Cincinatti.com, September 30, 2009
Life is too short to sweat the small stuff.
So says Paul Paff, the 80-year-old Delhi Township man trapped about six hours Tuesday in a 15-foot-deep septic tank behind his home on Pontius Road.
“It’s a miracle, I tell ya that. Nothing ever bothered me, even falling into a cistern,” he joked this [...]
Source: ChicagoTribune.com, September 29, 2009
Police are seeking information about a dead dog in a kennel that washed ashore on the north end of Lake Winnebago.
The dog washed ashore Monday. Calumet County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Wiegert says Tuesday that it was so decomposed officials could not determine its breed, but it appeared to have white fur [...]
Source: WUSA9.com, September 29, 2009
A sugar substitute found in a variety of sugar-free and dietetic cookies, mints and chewing gum is proving highly toxic, even fatal, to snack seeking dogs.
Veterinarian Dr. Michael Kopf continues to treat seven-year-old Gracey for Xylitol poisoning. A few weeks ago, Gracey got into a box of sugar-free Tic Tacs.
Within minutes, [...]
Source: CBS News, September 28, 2009
Over the last 20 years, the Love Me Tender animal rescue in central Tennessee has rounded up more than 1,000 abandoned dogs. And although most are timid and untrusting, one Rottweiler named Ella was notably different.
“I could just tell right away she was somebody’s baby. She just didn’t act like [...]
