Dogs get their own fashion show If a dog can get its own credit card and his guardians may sue the vet for emotional damages, it's no stretch to see the need for doggy wedding dresses and dog hats. [Salt Lake Tribune] That's supposedly weird... not so weird, if you're a dog owner.
Weird: The man who dragged a dog 17 miles behind his truck and the fact that charges are being considered. huh? why haven't charges been filed? [Rocky Mountain News]
Wild dogs are terrorizing some N. Carolina residents... [News 14 Carolina] Hey, this isn't Afghanistan... Where's animal control and why haven't they been able to catch the dogs?
Good dog goes bad: kitten-eating dog attacks police officer [The Telegraph]
Vet uses herbs, acupuncture, Vitamin B, electricity to treat 'patients' NV [Sierra Sun] (Pets with arthritis find unusual treatment helpful.)
Buddy, Clinton's dog, featured on trading cards Ark [TRIBnet.] Ending up as road kill hasn't hurt Buddy's rise to fame.
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UK dog's gold credit card gives $16,000 spending limit... UK [Dispatch] (paw print for signature?)
Trend: Sue the vet for emotional damages (when pet surgery goes awry... )
'New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island are considering legislation granting pet owners the right to sue for pain and suffering damages, including punitive damages for neglect or abuse. Tennessee enacted such a law in 2000 and Illinois passed a version of the law last year. West Virginia has removed caps that once limited damages to the assessed value of a pet...' [ABC News]
Barking up the wrong tree: SPCA ordered to stop using electric dog collars NZ Electric dog collars are so popular in the US that they are sold in most dog supply stores. Most come with a training video which explains how to use the collar to train the dog 'humanely' to stop barking (or other unwanted behavior). Many dog trainers also find electric dog collars useful in persuading stubborn canines to obey.
When the Thames SPCA staff reluctantly introduced a trial of electric dog collars, they found their dogs suffered and subsequently stopped using them:
'We have been advised the collars were proving unduly stressful for the dogs, who have been reduced to whimpering and cowering as a result of this exercise...' [Ashburton Guardian] The SPCA now seeks to make the use of such collars illegal in New Zealand.
(We purchased an electric dog collar on the advice of a trainer who also trained us in how to use it and provided a video for our education. Even with training, we failed miserably and after one use, we never put it on our dog again. The one and only time we used it was an unforgettable event. His double-thick coat meant that he could not feel anything at all at first... So, each time we shocked him, nothing at all happened, he didn't even notice, so we'd set the dial a little higher. When he finally did feel it, he jumped about a mile into the air. We got rid of the collar immediately... [and yes, we used the special collar for double thick coated dogs, but our dog has the thickest coat...] Now, I'm mortifed that we ever even considered using a collar. What a stupid thing to do. Luckily, our noble dog forgave our ignorance.
Even a greyhound dog collar has its hazards. Yesterday, our Trudi decided to jump the little wrought-iron fence which is supposed to keep her and our other flower-eating dog out of our flowers. She sailed over the fence, but her collar hooked on a rung and she came down right on top of the fence with a thud, her little front legs over the fence and her back legs on the other side. Luckily, I saw her tumble and carefully disentangled her from her collar and the fence. The fence has only curves and no points (we had thought of that). She seemed no worse for wear and has even had the gumption to ransack the garden again, knock down the canna and trample the sunflowers. We're looking for good breakaway collars which will break off if our dogs get caught in a fence or on a post. For now, we remove the greyhound collars when they're playing in the back yard...
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