Skateboarding dog rides high NV Sabrina, an industrious bull dog, taught herself to skateboard... [KVBC] (must see photo accompanies article.)
Laundry detergent: a hidden danger to curious dogs OR Laundry detergent can seriously burn a dog just through skin contact. Photos document the damage caused by liquid Tide to an adventurous Basset Hound... [KATU 2]
Dog Park off leash, on-line..
Total listed: US Dogparks 619 Dogparks in Canada: 483 [USA Today] (Add your dog park)
Cats farmed for skins UK "The BBC finds indications of a thriving industry farming cats for fur in the EU - contrary to official assertions." [BBC News] Related: Family pets skinned for fur trade [Daily Telegraph]
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A case of dog discrimination [Newsday.com] Those who have a dog that belongs to the so-called 'dangerous breed list' will sympathize with the story of one dog owner who almost lost his dog to legalized dog discrimination. Dog discrimination... ah yes, here are a few of our real-life examples:
- The first vet we tried insisted I could only bring our dog in to his office at closing time and then, unbelievably, he would not get near our dog. What a wuss... here I was, with a docile, meek dog and the vet freaked out because our dog was a 'chow'... okay, so we found another vet... We have an excellent vet now and he wishes that all his client dogs were as sweet and gentle as ours.
- The people who run up to me (as I walk my dog) with nasty comments about chows and how bad they are. Meanwhile, I'm hoping my dog doesn't listen to their stories. Case in point: the pet store employee who accosted me with a story of how he 'slammed a chow to the ground hard' after the chow bit him when he picked it up roughly for grooming... Our dog, which lay at our feet quietly during this diatribe, must have understood the story because he promptly threw up (something he never does... ). We left that store in a hurry...
- The blogger who wrote about his dog getting put down for bad temperment and blamed it on bad 'chow blood.' oh really?... the photo of the dog clearly has no chow characteristics... a pensive Labrador? yes... but chow? no way, no how...
- All the people who regale us with their supposed knowledge of chow temperment, none of which apply to our dog. "Chows are protective... Chows are aggressive... Chows can't be trained... Chows can instantly turn mean and kill you..." Baloney... don't believe it... Repeating myths only makes you look ignorant and prejudiced...
The danger of laws which seek to ban certain breeds of dogs is that they don't solve the problem of dangerous dogs and they penalize the good dogs with responsible owners.
Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support (winner of The Raving Atheist’s Nigerian Scam Blog-Name Shell Corporation Contest) entertains one the greatest of philosophical questions: Is there a doggy heaven?. [via Yule Heibel's blog's Of campers, rapture, and companion animals.] Some of the answers he received:
"... I obtained a dog and then stopped his heart, making him technically dead for a minute’s length. I then asked him about his experience, and he bit me. Thus, the experiment was inconclusive..." IMAO: political musings of a dumb smart guy
"...there are philosophers who have pet dogs, who maintain that dogs have souls, and there are philosophers who don't have dogs, who maintain that dogs do not have souls...." [Squander Two via Amish Tech Support]
Personally, if there isn't a doggy heaven, I'd just create one, along the lines of The Rainbow Bridge, where dogs live, if only in remembrance...
Need a good laugh... go here... h2g2: The guide to life, the universe, and everything (a jokester's knockoff of Hitchhiker's guide to the universe)... h2g2 dog wisdom:
Sniffing out cancer... move over Rover.. Scotland Imagine being able to detect cancer from a whiff of someone's breath. The electronic sniffer machine for cancer is here and it purportedly does just that. Last week, scientists began a study to use dogs to sniff out prostate cancer. That effort may just prove a moot endeavor, if the electronic sniffer machine proves more reliable, more capable and less costly. Internal cancers leave tell-tale clues on a person's breath which can be detected by machine:
"Experts are now looking at ways of boosting the nose’s sensitivity to the point where it can detect tumours at an early stage. If successful, this would mean that doctors would no longer have to use an invasive instrument called a bronchoscope to look inside a patient’s lungs and, in some cases, remove a tissue sample...." [The Scotsman via Slashdot via Linkwatcher]
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