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“Oh, you are so good:” Virtual dog offers “unconditional love” to elderly
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on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Meet GeriJoy. Hes a virtual dog. Hes a talking dog. Hes even described as a compassionate dog. He was developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be an interactive companion forolder people with dementia or memory problems, serving to provide what his makers call continual stimulation. Wed be the first to recite [...]Deaf N.C. pit bull finds new home with deaf woman in Niagara Falls
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on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 10:54 AM
A deaf pit bull from North Carolina has a new home with a deaf woman in Niagara Falls. Jessica Czamara read about Maggie on Facebook after the neglected dog was rescued from a backyard in North Carolina, where shed been kept chained. She was very skinny and you could see her ribs and you could [...]Toying with your affections: Cute, cuddly, and cheaper than real dog clones
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Its a cute and cuddly little idea. So why does it give me horror-show-like chills? I was thumbing through the latest issue of The Bark magazine print version when I came to a page devoted to spotlighting newproducts, including Cuddle Clones, one of a kind plush animals made to look just like your [...]Homeless man reunited with his pit bull
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 10:51 AM
James Bryan says in recent years he has lost his farm, home, wife and most of his personal belongings. The only real piece of his previous lifethe homeless Florida manstill had was his dog, a blue pit bull named Handover. On the morning of May 8, he woke up along U.S. 19 in Hudson [...]Does doggy bling date to prehistoric times?
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 11:42 AM
A new study suggests the earliest domestic dogs werent just kept for hunting and protection, but for loving a premise supported by evidence that some prehistoric pet owners actually outfitted their dogs in bling, if not before death, at least after it. An analysis of ancient dog burials, published in PLoS ONE, found that [...]Out from the tornado debris, it’s Bowsie!
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on Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 at 11:01 AM
Standing amid the devastation in Moore, Oklahoma, Barbara Garcia was being interviewed by a TV reporter when the dog she thought she lost to a tornado stuck his nose out from under the flattened remains of her home. Garcia was recounting sitting in her bathroom with her dog in her lap when the twister hit, [...]Did the scent of sizzling bacon draw missing pit bull puppy back to her foster home?
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on Tuesday May 21st, 2013 at 11:05 AM
A pit bull puppy, still recovering frombeing abused by dogfighters, ran off from her foster home in New Jersey, but she was apparently drawn back by the smell of bacon. Or it could have been the love. Misty, only nine months old, was found on a Brooklyn street corner earlier this month,covered in wounds and [...]Woof in Advertising: Trifexis
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on Tuesday May 21st, 2013 at 10:50 AM
This ad for Trifexis depicts a dog living in a bubble albeit it one thats outside and has plenty of tubes to run around in. It serves to protect him from heartworms, hookworms, roundworms, whipworms, flea infestations and all those other frightening hazards that exist in that place where dogs, for centuries, managed to [...]
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