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 [...]
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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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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A cat shot in the head with a crossbow arrow at a trailer park on Friday survived and returned home with only minor injuries. The arrow was removed from Stewie’s head after the cat was brought to the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Molly Fee, an intern at the school, said the arrow narrowly missed [...]
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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 [...]
When a nine-year-old boy ran to his mother shouting that there was a cheetah in the garden, she dismissed his claims as childhood excitement.
But when Julie-Ann Taylor looked out of the kitchen window she realising the surprising truth and saw a big cat attacking her son’s bicycle.
The 6ft long animal was just 15 feet from [...]
I found this handy-dandy press release in my inbox the other day, and because it offers so many useful suggestions I decided to pass it on to you. Learn and enjoy!
For many of us, Halloween is our favorite time of year! But imagine what our pets must think when all they can smell is [...]
If you regularly buy “cage free” eggs instead of the conventional kind, you’re off to a good start in supporting the welfare of farm animals, according to the World Society for the Protection of Animals. The same goes for buying “free range” poultry and “grass fed” dairy and meat, although those products may be harder [...]
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