Move afoot to spay Chicago pets

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »

Burke was asked how the city would go about enforcing the ordinance, since cats are not licensed and dog licenses are widely-ignored. “When you drive down the street and see a gang banger with all kinds of gang regalia walking along ...

Activists Require Pets in Chile Be Rescued

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »

Although the population near the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile has been evacuated, the pets were left behind. The Coalition for Ethical Control of Urban Fauna didn’t accept the situation and requested that the pets be rescued as well. “They ...

Air Canada no longer consigning pets to cargo

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »

Pets travelling on Air Canada are being bumped up from cargo to checked baggage starting Sunday as the window closes to appeal a tribunal ruling that deemed the cargo rule unreasonable for pet owners. Air Canada is quietly making the change ...

Pets may be latest victim of economy

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

"We always have a lot of abandonments; that is an ongoing problem because of the somewhat transient nature of the population here," said Jayne Vaughn, executive director of the Sevier County Humane Society Animal Shelter on Gnatty Branch Road in ...

Socialisation call for pets

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »

A COMMUNITY group wants Blacktown Council to provide its first fenced dog park in Riverstone. Riverstone Residents' Association chairman Jack Lord said most councils already provided such facilities and that it was long overdue in Blacktown. He said a dedicated park needed ...

Poetic licence to save pets

Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »

THE copyright on one of Australia's greatest poems is up for sale to fund an animal welfare group on the state's Far North Coast. Kenneth Slessor's Five Bells, in which the poet muses on a drowning in Sydney Harbour, is being ...

Cute and prickly hedgehogs latest pet fad

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »

Busy pet lovers have been buying hedgehogs, whose nocturnal habits make them appealing to the modern worker because they wake in the evening when their owners arrive home after a day in the office. Although Britain has its own wild breed ...

Aggressive dogs a growing local problem, officials say

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »

Verdis Pennington doesn't think his dogs would bite anyone. But a man passing through his yard, claimed Pennington's dogs attacked him. %26rdquo;I wouldn't have a dog that bites,%26ldquo; said Pennington, who voluntarily quarantined his dogs after the allegations were made ...

A President to unify (2)

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »

It is so sad to read such editorials as Shaky Start (March 25). The readers surely deserve better. It has two shocking references which are absolutely ill chosen. The editor has most hyperbolically written that Most unfortunately, the very first important ...

Max Seed gives owner, pets new lease on life

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »

There's a new business in South Sound that combines organic agriculture with sustainable populations of pets, two enduring passions of someone who, until just a few weeks ago, was my best news source within the environmental trenches at the Port ...