Kumpi cares for service dogs in Iraq CO [CBS News 4, Denver]
When I called Kumpi Dog Food to place an order, Evy Serpa, the president, told me about her company's volunteer efforts to help service dogs working in Iraq:
These dogs save lives by identifying bombs so that civilians and soldiers are not blown up. The dogs are rarely injured, but the fact remains that every service dog puts its life on the line for its human counterparts.
Sadly, many of these dogs are malnourished and starving.
If you want to donate the best quality dog food, please help Evy's "Kumpi Kares for Iraq" service dogs fund by visiting any Denver metro area Wells Fargo Bank. For more information, call (303) 693-6533.
To order this quality dog food (which my dogs have personally tested and enjoyed), call Kumpi on its new toll free number: 1-877-465-8674 or go to Kumpi.com. Our dogs have tried both the senior Kumpi food and the regular Kumpi food. My smaller dog's bald spots (from prior surgeries) disappeared after she switched to Kumpi!
Helping service dogs is nothing new for Kumpi. The company also fed the service dogs which helped dig out the 911 disaster victims! More articles: Kumpi dog food and organic dog foods, What is Kumpi dog food
No-kill shelter proposed CA [Canyon News] This may be old news, but it's ground breaking in its ideas:
"... proposed that each of the 86 Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles appoint a local Director of Animal Welfare (DAW), who will have a duty to look out for the animals in the area. The DAW might arrange Animal Care Fairs, with free spay-neuter, dog training, education, and adoption services. One DAW might deal with dog-fighting problems, while another may assist with horse-related issues. Neighborhood Council meetings and newsletters are cost free means for reporting progress or pulling the community together for a particular project. A similar idea was practiced in Alameda County, resulting in emptier shelters..' Charlotte Laws
How to make Los Angeles a no-kill shelter city CA [Charlotte Laws]
We sometimes find interesting sites in this site's Radioland Referers, just one of the many cool features of Radioland. Some of today's finds:
Community, Education and Links Animal Professional Network develops websites devoted to animals. Hmmm, they have a free web page offer to new subscribers, but it cost $15 a month to subscribe... oh well.
Race the Wind and adopt a greyhound I love Greyhounds... our chow chows are greyhound wannabies... When we went to look at adoptable dogs, we planned on a adopting a greyhound, but a very polite and shy chow captured our attention instead...
Police Patrol and Beyond, K-9 links
Search and rescue dogs
Search Bloogz
Search Creative Commons for your breed or interest
Geek News I usually go there from Daily Rotation, an all-inclusive, one-stop place for tech news...
Blogwise
Funny dog photos [Google Advanced Search] Pet Humor
Goggle dog [DayPop Top 40] "Hello, I am Goggle Dog. I am a new blogger. I am most comfortable in goggles. Do you like? Do you want see me in goggles? Funny hats? Come back, and learn what it means to be me!"
Going to visit at the hospital? Scrub up! Taking your therapy dog? He gets a bath too! Clean yourself advice on MRSA 'Patients should scrub up before coming to hospital to cut rates of superbug, say advisors...'
Patient Cleanliness Code
Wash before coming to hospital
Ask relatives to launder nightwear/bring toiletry supplies
Visitors should be freshly showered/bathed
Only two visitors at a time
Visitors should not sit on the bed
Patients in isolation should not have visitors
Ask staff/visitors to wash their hands
Bring medical wipes with you and clean your hands after using a bottle or bed pan
Collect your own bedside rubbish
Fill out hospital questionnaires [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
(Does anyone know where I can purchase 'hand wipes...' I've run out... It makes sense to hand them out when I visit the hospital with my therapy dog... )
(Amendment: Hedgeville Hounds won't be able to foster ChuCho after, due to the fact that he can dig under fences. He still needs a foster home and preferably, one that will keep him as an indoor dog and not one which would leave him unsupervised outside. He is an 'escape artist'.)
Yesterday, I received a call from Hedgesville Hounds, a rescue organization with an uncommon commitment to placing homeless dogs in loving homes. Hedgesville Hounds will help ChuCho, a homeless chow chow, until the perfect home is found for him. Thank you! Of course, ChuCho would never have had that chance for a second home, without the support of our local Humane Society in Rockville, Maryland, which works with animal rescue organizations in our area.
If you want to help Hedgeville Hounds with their mission, they need foster homes, donations, volunteers AND of course, adoptions. I hope someone wonderful adopts ChuCho; he's a magnificent, white chow chow with a joyful personality. Hedgeville Hounds will be featured on Animal Planet:
Hedgesville Hounds Pups Appear on Animal Planet!
"We were honored when our "Capra-Corns" were selected to be a part of the First Annual Puppy Bowl on ANIMAL PLANET airing on Sunday, February 6, 3-6 PM (ET) with encore presentations at 6 PM, 9 PM and 12 AM (ET). You have probably seen them in the commercials that are already airing..." [PR News Release]
Special thanks also go to Jeff Barr, who posted a note for me and got results! He heads up Syndic8.com, a web service provider with many cool FREE services:
A community-driven effort to gather syndicated news headlines...
A readable master list of syndicated news content...
An XML list of syndicated news content...
Quality of server measurement of all feeds, with statistics and history...
Complete statistics on every aspect of the site's content...
Reviews and pointers to syndicated tools and sites...
A very complete set of web services...
A plan to evangelize sites to syndicate their content...
A categorization system which uses existing schemes such as DMOZ
Articles and tutorials on syndication... [Syndic8.com]
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