‘Exotic’ pets present challenges
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »According to Dr. Angela Lennox, more young people are choosing to own exotic pets than ever before. "In families where they don't have a lot of time, or they don't have a big yard, lots and lots of families like little ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Dogs tied to trees. Lizards in a child's room. Turtles in garages. All heart-wrenching victims of California's mortgage meltdown as homeowners abandon their pets, sometimes left behind locked doors as the foreclosure sign goes up. The measure provides bank employees with ...
She Opened Her Heart to Pets
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Josephine Bensack Czapp, 89, who died of kidney failure April 6, grew up on a farm in Manassas and raised many kinds of pets, including horses and goats. In recent years, she became so close to her parakeet, Snookie, that ...
Splendid isolation
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Tony Davis finds Brunei is full of eccentricities, chief among them the palatial Empire complex. It was first light. I was walking past the large, man-made lagoon and could hear bird noises. I continued my stroll but something was awry. They weren't quite bird ...
Carry on glamping
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Lissa Christopher finds five-star camping involves silver-service meals, luxe bathrooms and 'tents' decorated with antiques. Nights in the wilderness now come in two contrasting styles. There's old-fashioned no-star camping (aka going back to basics in the bush for a bit), which has been around forever ...
Healesville
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Healesville Attractive township surrounded by vineyards and low lying mountains. Healesville is a flourishing tourist resort located amidst scenic countryside at the confluence of the Watts River and Grace Burn Creek, 60 km east of Melbourne and 81 metres above sea-level. In recent times the area ...
