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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Cats, Culture, Dogs, Featured Articles, Mammals, Pets, Science & Tech on 05 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Sensors and Chips Trained to Serve Pets

Sensors and Chips Trained to Serve Pets
In 2008, American pet owners spent $43 billion on their animals. Walk into any pet store and it is easy to see how — $60 brushes, $200 designer cat scratchers, $450 midcentury dog beds. But the market for pet gadgets has been dismal, in large part because of the abundance of novelty goods that are...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Culture, Farm & Ranch, Mammals, Veterinary Medicine on 05 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Cow Escapes from Slaughterhouse, Moves Back to Farm

Cow Escapes from Slaughterhouse, Moves Back to Farm
photo credit: law_keven [...] On Thursday, the heifer — who evidently escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse on Wednesday before being corralled by police officers — was loaded on a trailer at a Brooklyn animal shelter and transported to her new home: a 60-acre organic farm in Calverton, in Suffolk...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Conservation, Endangered Species, Mammals, Science & Tech, Underwater, Wildlife on 05 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Blue Whales Re-establish Former Migration Patterns

Blue Whales Re-establish Former Migration Patterns
photo credit: Amnemona The planet’s largest animal may be returning to pre-whaling feeding grounds. Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965. [...]...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Animals & Law, Business, Culture, Dogs, Mammals, Pets on 04 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Animal cruelty DVDs as free speech: Will the Supreme Court buy that?

Animal cruelty DVDs as free speech: Will the Supreme Court buy that?
photo credit: audreyjm529 Sadly, there's a market for everything.  There's even a market for videos of dogfights, in which animals brutally and painfully rip each other apart. A man convicted of selling these videos will appeal his case before the Supreme Court, and will argue that selling the videos...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Cats, Culture, Dogs, Mammals, Pets on 04 14th, 2009 | No Comments

How the well-heeled pamper their pets

How the well-heeled pamper their pets
photo credit: Piez The cultured pearl collars are certainly elegant, and the Swarovski crystal and silver mesh puppy necklaces seem a steal at just $225. But for the larger dog who wants to make a statement, it's hard to go past the Masai collars, handcrafted by tribesmen in Kenya. "The Masai are very...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Culture, Dogs, Mammals, Pets on 04 14th, 2009 | No Comments

What America needs: A dog-friendly car

What America needs: A dog-friendly car
photo credit: emdot The idea isn't coming out of Detroit, but maybe America's automakers will again copy the Japanese and learn how to make a profit by making a pet-friendly car. Honda Motor Co. recently unveiled the pet friendly version of its Element utility vehicle at the New York Auto Show, according...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Conservation, Underwater on 03 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Captive Bred Black Tiger Prawns Lack Lust, ‘Prawnography’ Shows

Captive Bred Black Tiger Prawns Lack Lust, ‘Prawnography’ Shows
photo credit: Vincent Boiteau A researcher has studied hours of prawn "sex tapes" to find out why prawns bred in captivity did not go on to breed well. Life sciences researcher Gay Marsden, from Queensland University of Technology, spent two months filming what prawns got up to when the sun went down. "The...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Creepy Crawlies, Farm & Ranch, Wildlife on 03 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Olive Groves May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp

Olive Groves May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp
photo credit: Opo Terser Olives basking in sunny California groves might find that their new best friend is a small brown wasp. Known to scientists as Psyttalia cf. concolor, the little wasp can help foil the olive fruit fly, a powerful natural enemy of olives. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Animals & Law, Business, Conservation, Endangered Species, Mammals, Wildlife on 03 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Animals & Money: How much does the endangered species act cost?

Animals & Money: How much does the endangered species act cost?
photo credit: law_keven This week President Obama brought science back into the Endangered Species Act, effectively overturning a wild diversion of the law by the Bush administration last summer. Bush decided that federal officials didn't have to bother to consult with scientists when they decided...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Underwater on 03 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Pet shop receives delivery of dead man instead of tropical fish

Pet shop receives delivery of dead man instead of tropical fish
When Mark Arabia, owner of the Pets Plus store, went out to the delivery man's vehicle to collect the $1,000 fish supply he discovered a coffin. "At first when I looked at it, I said, 'Fish never come this way'," he said. He said he eventually learned that the body inside was that of a 65-year-old man...
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