£27 Million On Christmas Pet Gifts.
UK 'British animal lovers will spend over £27 million on Christmas gifts for their pets this year, according to new research published by The Blue Cross..' [
UKPets.co.uk UK Pet Industry News]
Holiday hazards harmful to your dog FL 'The most common thing we see around this time of year is pancreatitis, a sometimes fatal inflammation of the pancreas that can result from eating high-fat foods like turkey skin...' University of Florida vets provide tips to keep your pets from harm in the Christmas season... [The Business Journal]
88% of UK Cats And Dogs Not Insured. Research shows that only 12% of the UK's 15 million cats and dogs are insured.. Monday 16 December 2002 [
UKPets.co.uk UK Pet Industry News]
More Wolves, and New Questions, in Rockies.
'The wolf is back in the West after a half century's absence. The federal government says it is time to end the protections.' By Jim Robbins. [
New York Times: Science]
Dog multilated: parts placed in woman's workplace mailbox 'A Simpson County woman was just beginning to deal with what she thought was the Dec. 6 death of her pet Great Pyrenees in U.S. 31-W traffic when part of the dog’s genitalia was found in a cigar box Friday in the mailbox where she works... ' She fears her other dog will be next. Police are working on the case...
[Daily News]
Dog sledding in Canadian wilderness '
Howling wolves, speeding sled dogs, glistening snow and twinkling stars' all add up to an unforgettable adventure... Jeff Miller gives a first person account of a Canadian wilderness vacation... [Des Moines Register]
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Dog on freeway forgiven for near fatal car crash NJ An abandoned dog nearly caused a fatal car crash... but stayed with the car until help arrived... Sadie needs a home. [North Jersey News] (our rescued dog was abandoned next to a freeway too... )
Owner 'baffled' at dog found in car boot UK 'A man who flew to England while his dog was locked in the boot of his car today denied that he left the pet there deliberately. ...' Airport police rescued the barking dog from the boot, averting a slow and painful death. [Belfast Telegraph] (okay, just how does a dog lock itself in a car boot?)
Sniffer dog finds stroke victim in hospital cupboard UK A newly opened hospital lost one of its patients just one hour after her arrival. Twenty four hours later, the patient was finally found hidden in a large cupboard by a search and rescue dog. Her children are not amused by the incident:
'When you are told your mother has disappeared on a foggy, freezing night, you expect her to be found dead in a ditch.' [The Telegraph] Related: UK
National Search and Rescue Dog Association
Busted: dog fighting rings MS A rare glimse into the culture surrounding dog fighting reveals violent crime goes hand in hand with it.
'...Dog fights are often accompanied by other forms of illegal activities, such as gambling and drugs... [crimes of]
violence...' Despite the brutality (or perhaps because of it), dog fighting is becoming more popular in all 50 states... [The Sun Herald]
- Funny photo of Clementine, dog of the north, from the Slat Rat Chronicles.
- Ed Cone's dog, Luna, got spayed last week; it was hard on him. (Surgery on your pet IS stressful, yes. Even if you know it's the right thing to do, it's traumatic. Our dog's second surgery and recovery (second total hip replacement) was even more stressful for us than his first because we knew what he would have to go through. It was worth it: he wants to run play ALL the time, which means less time writing. He's running around the back yard like a bunny rabbit... and he's digging up our flowers when the ground isn't frozen.
- From Ed: 'If you play Eminem backwards, does it tell you to beat up Moby?' [Ed Cone] (Moby, the techno music artist, got beaten up by three thugs. He's invited the thugs to tell him why they did it... on his weblog)
- Chris Double writes about pair programming with a robot dog and Dolphin Smalltalk. Hmmm... don't ask me what that means. [I can't even get the MyPictures feature of Radioland (very well written and perfectly explained) to work and that's idiot proof. Russ Lipton does a nice job of explaining how to put pics in your Radioland site without using MyPictures. (If you're using Internet Explorer, pictures accompanying the news articles now appear BEHIND the css columns (i.e., you can't see them). I'm thinking of copyrighting this feature... unfortunately, I don't know how I did it, or how to replicate it, or how to fix it. oops...]
- A dog has an email box, but it's very exclusive. You probably can't get the email address. (neither can my dog).
- Christopher Taylor of Synthetic Morphine, just may get a dog, if Andrea gets hooked on dogs... and it looks like she is.
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Islamic texts teach kindness to animals TN The true strength of a person's morality lies in the willingness to show kindness to all living creatures, according to Islamic texts: '
In Islam, animals are considered the sacred trust of God and no unnecessary pain or torture should be inflicted upon them, even when they have to be put into death. Hardheartedness, brutality and callousness are the worst qualities of man, according to Islam. If a few of its followers deviate from its teachings, they are the ones to be blamed - not the religion itself or Muslims at large...' [Tallahassee Democrat]
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