Showing 105 posts from January 2009
We thought we’d take this occasion — our 500th post — to bring you up to date on how ohmidog! is doing. We are, after all, turning six months old on Sunday.
Since we started in August, our readership — both in terms of visitors and page views — has been doubling about every month. In the [...]
When she’s not busy saving lives on TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” Katherine Heigl spends some of her spare time saving dogs, as Access Hollywood recently showed its viewers.
Heigl and her mother, Nancy, recently teamed up with Pup My Ride, an animal rescue program from the Best Friends Animal Society, to rescue dogs from shelter life.
“Over 600 [...]
Sims Wyeth — intrigued by the prospect of a shelter dog moving into the White House — has penned a song called, simply enough, “First Dog Song.”
An excerpt:
“Now I’m in the shelter, sleeping on cement.
One day I’m gonna wake up in the house of the president.”
Wyeth is a former actor and educator who founded [...]
People who let their dogs lick their faces are no more likely than other dog owners to pick up strains of E. coli bacteria from their dogs.
Nor are those who let their dogs sleep with them, a Kansas State University veterinarian reports.
None of which is to say you can’t catch diseases from your dog, or [...]
It’s Puppy Bowl time again.
A perennial favorite for those seeking an alternative to the Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl is basically two hours of watching rambunctious puppies frolic on the gridiron of Animal Planet Stadium.
Puppy Bowl V will be the first to feature an entire cast of shelter and rescue dogs – all 20 dogs featured are up-for-adoption [...]
