Your pet may want to shed those kilos
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »CATS and dogs as fat as hogs are getting a chance to be South Africa’s biggest loser in a pet-slimming competition. Stitch Parsons, a miniature dachshund from Gauteng, won last year’ s award, having lost more than half her body weight. He ...
Fay takes toll on pets and wildlife
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »The chocolate brown Labrador retriever stared out the car window, his red-rimmed eyes speaking volumes about his predicament. He was sharing half the back seat of a friendly state transportation worker's car with a German shepherd, and his rear leg was ...
Overcrowded Pets Without Parents seeks relief
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Space is running tight and low at Clintonville's Pets Without Parents Animal Shelter. In addition, adoptions of kittens and puppies and cats and dogs are down because people don't have the funds to adopt, she said. To that end, in addition to ...
SchoolPal and TeacherPal Are the New “Teachers’ Pets”
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »The SchoolPal and TeacherPal web services, based on Etronica's PublishPalLite(TM) platform, fill the important gap in the market between awkward "build your own" programs, and expensive solutions that are too complicated. With TeacherPal and SchoolPal, customers don't need to download ...
Foster families give pets new lease on life
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Home foreclosures and broader economic woes have led to a higher-than-normal number of pets being dropped off at Valley shelters, according to officials with the Arizona Animal Welfare League, a non-profit organization that runs the state's largest no-kill shelter. Paige Krakoski's ...
Pets Suffer From Heat Exhaustion
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »Lying in the grass, unprotected from the blazing July sun while donning a fur coat would not appeal to many, but for others it's not a choice. Some pets are suffering from heat exhaustion this summer due to the thoughtlessness ...
Foreclosures make Arizona families give up pets
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »The pooch was rescued as a pup from the streets seven years ago and has lived snugly in the Strohmeyers' southwest side home ever since. That home went into foreclosure proceedings two weeks ago. The family has less than three months ...
Junk food is causing pet obesity epidemic
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Researchers for The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals found that in the past year there has been a 10 per cent increase in the number of overweight animals. They are suffering symptoms identified with obesity in humans, such as low energy ...
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 ...
Methodology for Pets and Politics poll
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who ...
