Bearing up: when holding on to loved ones can help ease the grief
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »IT LOOKS like a teddy bear. Fluffy, cuddly. There's a zip in its tummy where you insert a small pouch containing the ashes of someone you still long to hold in your arms. It's a Huggable Urn.A family in Western ...
World briefs
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »A controversial young Nepali girl worshipped by many Buddhists and Hindus as a Kumari, or living goddess, has given up her divine position following a request from her family, an official said yesterday. The 11-year-old Sajani Shakya was revered for nine ...
Mackenzie A&P Show results
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Judge: Sally Smith - Ashburton Reserve Champion Fine Combing: Hope Bros -Grampians Station Champion Fine Combing: Hope Bros -Grampians Station Champion Fine Combing: Hope Bros -Grampians Station Champion Fine Combing: Grays Hills Supreme Champion Wool Breed: Grays Hills Class 1 Ram, 2-shear and over: 1 Grays ...
Nicaraguans celebrate mass for dogs
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »A long queue of Catholics, carrying their pets or leading them on leashes, waited their turn to pass by an image of a saint in a tiny church in this town 30 kilometres to the south of the Nicaragua capital, ...
World briefs
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »A controversial young Nepali girl worshipped by many Buddhists and Hindus as a Kumari, or living goddess, has given up her divine position following a request from her family, an official said yesterday. The 11-year-old Sajani Shakya was revered for nine ...
Dog suits and dung among my pet hates
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »People joke that the number of pet dogs in Beijing is more than the urban population. It is an exaggeration to some but Beijingers seem to love their pets more than most. They might address their offspring as "lazy little scamps", ...
Stop … and smell the roses
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »A new guidebook encourages travellers to take it easy in a city that likes things fast, writes Dan Goldberg. Memo to all Sydneysiders hurtling through life at breakneck speed: help is at hand. Wittingly or unwittingly, most of us urbanites have been sucked into ...
Van Diemen’s Land
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Van Diemen's Land is a fresh and sparkling account of the first generation of British settlement in Tasmania that also makes an important contribution to Australian colonial historiography. The product of seven years' research and writing, and a longer time talking about and walking ...
To the ends of the Earth
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »A three-hour road trip to a resort run by local Aborigines is worth every bone-jarring minute, writes Esther Beaton. The silence is tense. The sand has been washed flat by the receding tide. The last rays of sunset create a vivid, many-hued backdrop to the ...
Stop … and smell the roses
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »A new guidebook encourages travellers to take it easy in a city that likes things fast, writes Dan Goldberg. Memo to all Sydneysiders hurtling through life at breakneck speed: help is at hand. Wittingly or unwittingly, most of us urbanites have been sucked into ...
