Pet insurance leaves owners out in the cold UK 'Pre-existing conditions' aren't covered, even if the pet was already under the insurance plan... [icNewcastle]

Vitamins, exercise and mental stimulation aid healthy longevity in both dogs and people...  'Regular exercise, mental stimulation and a diet rich in antioxidants can help keep the brain sharp in older dogs - and perhaps do likewise in humans..' [Scripps Howard News]

Man feeds his mother-in-law to neighbors' ferocious dogs Brazil [Oddy Enough News]

Animal rescue shelter or... house of horrors CA Complaints forced police to investigate a 'shelter' which neighbors said smelled like death and included 'refuse in the yard and a house full of trash, animal feces, cockroaches, mice and rats, and rotting dog corpses...'

"My place is not perfect... I keep it up the best I can..." said the owner. [San Bernadino County Sun] Related: Smell leads police to rotting remains

Midwest Airlines offers frequent flyer miles to pets US 'Midwest announced it will now reward pets with a free round-trip ticket for every three domestic round-trips they make with their owners..' [SBS World News]

Oregon tax refunds help homeless... animals OR [Bend Press Release] The Oregon Humane Society gets a boost from a check-off box provided to Oregon state income tax filers.

Legislators seek bans after pit bull fight ends in shootings MD [Hometown Annapolis]

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Warning to SF dogs: no free love in the park! CA Last week's passage of laws to upgrade the living conditions of San Francisco's dogs may have included non-tipping water dishes and comfy dog houses, but they didn't remove the 'anti-humping statute' from the books:

'Personally, I think it is a good law.'..The anti-humping law 'should stay on the books...' Carl Friedman, director of San Francisco's Department of Animal Care and Control [San Francisco Weekly] (The 30 year law has never been enforced... )

If only dogs in Maryland had it as good as dogs in San Francisco. It's now 24 degrees Fahrenheit, up from 20 degrees this morning, and perfectly legal to leave a dog outside all day, if it has an 'adequate' dog house, which is sheltered from the wind, has a roof, a floor and walls. I still think it's cruel to an older dog who has arthritis to be left in a yard with a dog house; if the dog freezes, it will be a legal death...

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