'The dog ate my car keys': excuses for missing work: U.S. A survey of 150 executives in the nation's largest companies reveals that excuses for missing work often blamed the dog. Other than caring for children, the most frequent reasons involved man's best friend:

•  "The dog was asleep behind the car and I couldn't back out of the driveway."
•  "My dog swallowed my car keys."
•  "My dog didn't come back after I let him out." [MSN Money Diversified Services New]

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Able Seaman Just Nuisance, R.N.  South Africa Learn about the history of 'Just Nuisance', a noble Great Dane, who enjoyed life as a member of the Royal Navy from 1939-1944. He 'married', worked as a seagoing dog, and was given a hero's funeral with military honors. His statue graces Jubilee Square in Simon's Town.

'His favourite spot was to lie on the deck on the brow at the top of the gangplank. No-one could easily get past him and he was loathe to move. The sailors would say - "You're just a nuisance, why do you have to lie here of all places?!" '  [Simon's Town  via Metafilter]

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Pets and second hand smoke: 'Dogs age seven times faster than us.' enough said... [Colorado State Collegian]

Pet poisoning:  Some pets will eat just about anything. Your job is to make sure your pet doesn't fall victim to its own bad taste... (including you as its guardian/owner, if you smoke.) Order a free Animal Poison Control Center magnet from the ASPCA's Poison Control Center

'Coffee grounds, grapes and raisins, fabric softener sheets, dishwashing detergent, batteries, cigarettes, alcoholic drinks and pennies are just some of things that can be dangerous and even deadly to a cat or dog...' [UPI Science News]

Bio-terror emergency kits are for pets too CA Even Tom Ridge, U.S. Homeland Security Director, has organized emergency kits for his three Golden Retrievers... [Whittier Daily News] List of Items for Pets' Emergency Kit

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Rabies spreading rapidly through Swannanoa Valley NC The number of confirmed wildlife rabies cases is four times normal already this year (17 since January). Because rabies is fatal once symptoms appear, even vaccinated pets must receive a booster shot if they've been exposed to rabies:

"Unvaccinated dogs or cats exposed to rabies will be destroyed, according to North Carolina law... A vaccinated animal has to have a booster vaccine shot within 72 hours of the exposure or be destroyed. If you suspect an animal has been in a fight with a wild animal you have to have it re-vaccinated." [Black Mountain News]

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Are two dogs vicious or just misunderstood? Wisconsin Jury trial ordered to find out: 'legal history in the making...'

' A court-ordered mediation between the owners of two boxer dogs and neighbors to resolve whether the couple's boxers are vicious failed and a jury trial is set for May, 2003.... Ben Kempinen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, said in 25 years of teaching law at the university, "I have never heard of a pet owner retaining private counsel to protect his property rights." '[Journal Sentinel]

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Give that dog a bone: Siberian Husky awarded top honor UK Rio, a Siberian Husky, received the Bonio award for saving a woman's life: he gave her a will to live... An anorexic woman, certain to die without intervention, received Rio, the 'dog of her dreams,' as an incentive for staying alive. She weighed only 4 stone (56 pounds) at one point...  [Ananova] Related: Top dog can do sums [This is London]

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• Iditarod: a memory, an asterik AK [News-Miner]
• Dog dies of unknown causes in Iditarod sled dog race, autopsy pending AK [Guelph Mercury, Canada]
• The Iditarod: Has enough progress been made in protecting sled dogs? CA [Napa Valley Register]
• Iditarod 2003, Interactive Map, Daily Stories, History AK [News-Miner]
• spoofing the Iditarod: Urban Iditarod:
• 'In [the] urban version, teams of [sic] dogs lead by a musher pull their sleds (shopping carts) through some of San Francisco’s most touristed areas. These teams of barking humans must negotiate through the unrelenting and unforgiving dangers of San Francisco’s urban frontier. As an incentive to run, dogs and mushers alike will have several “rest stops” to replenish lost fluids and discuss tales of mayhem. The course is over three miles, so dogs and mushers alike need to be ready and able to run their tails off...' [found via hiphop's urban photo log] (one advantage of the urban Iditarod is that no dogs are killed...)

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Pet medicine on the cutting edge Advances in veterinary medicine and an increasing valuation of pets as family has led to a world in which cats routinely receive organ transplants and dogs get artificial elbows or even bone transplants from deceased animals. The extraordinary world of veterinary medicine extends its reach to human medicine as well:

'All this [veterinary research] data provides a window into human medicine that researchers otherwise wouldn't have. For starters, vet science gathers information that policy or mores make inaccessible in human science. Advanced cloning technologies, for instance, have allowed vets to begin using embryonic stem cells in ways that are against the law in human medicine...' [Wired Medicine]

Related:

• Pets live longer thanks to high tech care Arthur Caplan, chairman of Penn University's Department of Medical Ethics, finds the trend to spend huge sums on pets troubling: "It's sort of odd to think that a pet could get certain treatments in the United States that certain people could not afford." More troubling is the agony that some pets endure with care that keeps them alive, but suffering. Whatever the cost, the trend is here to stay as more and more people fall in love with their pets and bestow a status on them as family members...  [The Irish Examiner]
• veterinary joke by Blodgett: musings on science, art and society
• Outrage over dog's emergency surgery in hospital;
• A dog's life: when should it end? CA "The nightmare of his illness, although only weeks long, was an eternity..." One man personal experience of grappling with the ethics of keeping a dog alive when it's very ill... [San Francisco Examiner]
• Vet student kills pet dog, boils it in oil ... all for a better grade in vet school... Bolivia A veterinary student killed his uncle's dog and boiled it in oil to obtain its bones for a veterinary class. Students who obtain dogs' skeletons receive higher rewards. Instead of the scholastic bonus, he was prosecuted for animal cruelty... [Ananova.com]
• In their latest book, The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love... , Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff, see hard earned scientific knowledge as a call to action in life: 'respecting all life, teaching children to love and respect nature, refraining from harming life in order to learn more about it, praising and helping those who work for animal welfare, and acting in concert with others...There are alternatives to cruelty, and we should really seek these alternatives...'

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