The American Humane Association sent me these pet safety tips, and now I’m passing them on to you. I hope you and your pets enjoy a happy and safe holiday season!
-MJ, aka Kitty Mowmow
Keeping pets away from poinsettias and chocolate is just the beginning. Avoid an unplanned trip to the animal hospital this holiday season [...]
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Award-winning actress and pet parent Felicity Huffman has teamed up with Iams Home for the Holidays to help raise awareness for the millions of homeless dogs and cats throughout North America. Home for the Holidays has set a goal to place 1 million orphaned animals into happy and loving homes during this year’s holiday season [...]
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvians crazy about their national dog, a bald and often toothless breed popular among Incan kings, offered on Monday to send a hypoallergenic puppy to the Obama family.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has promised daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, a new pet for the White House. But Malia is allergic to most [...]
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COLCHESTER, England, Nov. 13 (UPI) — A Scottish terrier, trained to pick up its mistress’s mail, ended up in the hands of an English veterinarian after a fast-food menu glued its teeth together.
Kimberly Fisher of Colchester said it took about 20 minutes to get what was left of the menu out of [...]
Everyone has an opinion about what kind of dog the Obamas should take to the White House.
Rescue a homeless dog, advise adoption shelters. Think poodle, says the American Kennel Club, which ran an online survey. Radio talk and Internet comments run the gamut from serious pet-care advice to un-PC jabs.
In his election night address, Barack [...]
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The Humane Society of Dallas County’s shelter has stopped accepting surrendered animals for the first time in its 30-year history because of financial problems.
The no-kill shelter, Dog and Kitty City, is facing a double whammy: Donations have fallen roughly 75 percent since last year and adoptions have dropped 25 percent as fewer people [...]
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Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen.
A team of Japanese scientists produced the clones after thawing mice that had been frozen at minus 20C for up to 16 years.
Clones had been created [...]
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Miss Pattiya, a six-pound Maltese dog, has safely returned home after being on the lam for three years.
No one can fathom how she survived, and of course, the 12-year-old Miss Pattiya isn’t talking.
The only certainty is what brought her back — a tiny microchip implanted between her shoulders. An electronic scanner is used to [...]
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Patrick Ohara came home from work recently to find his dog Tyko’s paws covered in glue. There was some glue in Akita’s hair and on her muzzle, and she was drinking more water than usual. But otherwise, the dog seemed normal.
Near Tyko, was a chewed 4-oz plastic bottle of Gorilla Glue. That was on a [...]
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These improbable pictures were taken at an exotic bird farm in Germany and show the extraordinary moment when a one-year-old pelican body-searched a dog in search for a missing meal.
Captured by the owner of the bird farm, Roland Adam, they show how Petri the Pelican took exception to the theft of its meal.
“I was preparing [...]
