Pet owners gear up for spay-neuter law dogfight
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »The state Legislature has pet owners barking up a storm once again. Nearly a year after controversy stopped the mandatory spay and neuter bill in its tracks, the proposal is back, this time in a watered-down form that hasn't ceased the ...
Putting their best foot forward for Pets in the Park
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »However, that's exactly what Dexter, a four-and-a-half-month-old boxer, did at the Animal Rescue League's Pets in the Park 2008 fundraiser held at Rockwood Park on Sunday. He was the only dog dressed in a green recyclable shopping bag. The reason owner ...
Pets II 2008 Feature Release
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »The following knowledgeable industry leaders and scholars from Business Wire's ExpertSource database are available to discuss topics relating to Pets II Cheryl Lang is founder and president of Houston-based No Paws Left Behind, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing ...
Officials Tout Pets’ Rabies Shots
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »A single rabies vaccination could have been enough to save the family dog last week. Instead, the pooch, lacking up-to-date shots, had to be euthanized following an attack by a rabid skunk. The attack, last Thursday on Mountain City Road outside ...
Protecting Pets from Home Fires
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »During a news conference tomorrow at the Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department in Greenbelt, Maryland, officials will offer lifesaving tips and cite a recent AKC study which indicates 88 percent of pet owners consider pets to be valued family members. They ...
Quad-Citians are surrendering pets for financial reasons
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Rock Island County Care and Control has experienced a 44 percent increase in owner surrenders in the last 30 days and those surrendering their pets for financial reasons rose 233 percent from the same period a year ago. It’s obvious that ...
Prozac for Pets
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »With behavior-fixing drugs ubiquitous in the United States, it was only a matter of time before we started drugging our pets. The New York Times Magazine goes soup-to-bones on this booming billion-dollar industry, founded on two sea-level cultural changes: a recognition ...
Spectrum not selling pets supply business
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »Despite efforts to force through the sale of its global pets supply business, Spectrum Brands said Monday it has scrapped that plan one originally billed as pivotal to its turnaround. The company sought to convince its senior lenders the deal was ...
Pampering your pets in style
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Espeso may be a brand-new high-end accessories mecca for dogs and cats with style, but the partners behind it aren't latecomers to the pet-pampering scene. They helped create it. Fourteen years ago, long before the proliferation of organic dog treats and ...
Pill-Popping Pets
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »He chases deer. He is and this should be remembered when discussions of cases like his blunder into the thickets of cognitive ethology, normative psychology and intraspecies solipsism a good dog. A 3-year-old German shepherd, all rangy limbs and skittering ...
