Here's an unexpected benefit of Twitter: helping
find homes for pets! At the end of October, a former client of ours named Meaghan found a Chow puppy abandoned in the bushes in Shenzhen, China. We had moved Meaghan's dog Namie to Shenzhen when she took a teaching job in China teaching 8th graders. When Meaghan unable to keep the puppy permanently because she already had another dog, she reached out to us
If you've moved with your pet recently, you 
might be in need of a finding a new veterinarian. While Yellow Pages and Google can help you narrow down some local options, it usually helps to get a vet's verdict straight from the horse's mouth. Fortunately, there are plenty of word-of-mouth avenues to help you find a new veterinarian who is guaranteed to be woof-worthy. Here are some places to hunt down the locals who are in the know:
No Dog Left Behind, a documentary about Operation Baghdad Pups run by our friend Terri Crisp, will be airing on the Military Channel this Sunday, November 15th. Crisp, who is one of my own personal heroes after her brave animal rescue efforts during multiple national disasters (check out her amazing book, Out of Harm's Way), is doing some great things for the abandoned and stray dogs in Iraq as well as the soldiers who love them.
Look at this happy little guy! We moved Oscar from Minneapolis to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last week. He is now fulfilling the seven-day mandatory quarantine for pets entering the country. We had posted a picture of him relaxing in his pet travel crate before he left, and this just goes to show that a pet who has been a
This afternoon I came across this great blog on living in Japan talking about the change in attitudes toward pets in Japan over the last few years:
