Discount Watcher delivers custom rss feeds so you can receive alerts for sales on discount items for your dog! or cat or any other item you want to track bargains for ... wow! Just do a search on Discount Watcher and then click and copy the handy rss link in the top right of the page! Use Radioland's built-in news reader or an rss feed reader like Feedster (getting ready for version 1.0 release) [Popdex]
Marc Barrot roles out a an online demo version 2.0 of his incredible ActiveRenderer tool online and as a very powerful add-in to Radioland's superb weblogging tool. I've been playing around with ActiveRenderer and so far, it integrates flawlessly with Radioland. ActiveRenderer is loaded with cool features, like transforming your local bookmarks to opml format so you can effortlessly share them online...
China: small dogs reign as pampered pets 'China's love affair with small pets fuels demand for luxury products like Oh my dog! perfume for as much as '$110 per bottle. A peasant family in rural China could survive for a year on that, but in Beijing, the perfume is a steady seller, according to shop managers...' [Globe and Mail]
Dog keels over dead after sniffing beach canister UK When a dog collapsed after sniffing a canister washed up on a popular beach, a chemical alert occurred quickly... Investigators determined that the dog died of a heart attack and no deadly chemicals were found... [North West Evening Mail]
Minnesota family gives up Christmas to save family dog MN [The Free Press]
What to do when the neighbor dog won't stop barking CA If neighbors won't do anything after you talk with them (nicely), there usually exist laws to help persuade them to take action... [Journal and Courier]
Skateboarding dog earns star status NV Video of the self-taught skateboarder, Sabrina, demonstrates why she's been on the Jay Leno show, Discovery Animal Channel's Pet Star, the Today Show and more... [San Mateo County Times]
Deadly flu virus vaccine scrapped... US Scientists developed a vaccine against this year's deadly flu, the dangerous Fujian strain, but stopped short of producing it, because of the danger of animal viruses being inadvertantly spread among humans. Scientists vetoed using such a vaccine, incubated in a dog's kidneys, as too risky because it '... risks introducing some funny bit of DNA from the canine cell line itself, even though it might be several times removed...' [San Mateo County Times Online]
Dog fight over dog killings, journalistic reporting and web privacy: dog poo and the off-leash dog... a cautionary tale... lawsuits abound... [PR Newswire] An old tale (brewing for over six months), still stinks to high heaven...
PR Newswire, in a PR move for the Moynihan Institute, spews the poop about a Portland, Oregon, northwest tale of dog poisonings, hate crimes, libel, web site madness, privacy invaded and more... The website LeashYourDog.com is no more, apparently fallen victim to the fallout ... Meanwhile, the FBI and the Portland police force may or may NOT be investigating hate crimes committed against a reporter at KATU, but the Moynihan Institute vigorously denies such claims. You can still read a few resurrected remnants of LeashYourDog, thanks to Google's cache of the site, as in Close Encounters of the Turd Kind. The Moynihan Institute's account of the debacle, replete with paraquat dog frisbee and the Thug Dog Hater t-shirt:
'Paraquat Sausage-Flavored Poison Dog Frisbee. Directions: 1) Go to Laurelhurst or Mt. Tabor park. 2) Look for hipster guy with soulpatch or sandalista female with fanny pack playing with unleashed chocolate lab or an Australian shepherd. 3) Throw Frisbee toward dog. Vomiting, violent death and safer parks will ensue... Only $9.99 ' ( a sick, brazen publicity stunt by [Moynihan Institute]
Jeffrey Zeldman presents pet stories
Dog owner devastated by puppy shooting [Community Press Online, Canada]
Gifts to pamper your pet ... 'pets outnumber people in the United States (about 350 million to 293 million), it's small wonder that sales of pet-related products will be $31 billion this year, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers' Association...' [Rocky Mountain News]
We're giving our furriest dog a bath for Christmas... The ionic hair brush from Sharper Image really does condition a dog's hair. However, Nature's Miracle (body deoderizer and dander remover)... serves us better for removing dog odors than the ionic brush; brush with Nature's Miracle, and then with Whispering Mist (a brush-in skin conditioner for dogs) and your dog will smell heavenly for just pennies...
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