Maybe you’ve always thought your feline friend had the makings of a champion. So if you want to see how your Fluffy stacks up against the best of the pedigreed bunch, enter her in the annual CFA-IAMS Cat Championship agility contest.
More than 600 cats from all over the world will converge on Madison Square Garden [...]
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Big and strong with a face radiating pure joy, Julian sweeps his tail back and forth in a fast, smooth arc, like a windshield wiper in a gully washer.
But Julian, as happy a dog as you’re likely to see, faces life with a couple of huge impediments. He’s big. He’s black. And that means he’s [...]
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It takes a special kind of person to adopt an unwanted animal, even more so to take on more than one such creature. One local couple, Don and Cindy White of Hampshire, have elevated this special breed of compassion to an art form.
After rescuing nine stray cats, two guinea pigs, two parakeets, and a [...]
Baby kissing and hand shaking move over. Tail wagging is now officially on the stump. Amidst the barrage of news on the 2008 presidential election, is another kind of campaign message, delivered by television actor and veteran stand up comic Richard Belzer. He’s now Uncle Sam, star of a life-saving campaign, “We Want You… To [...]
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Furry friends aren’t always the best for college students.
While pet adoption may seem like a good idea at first, students may want to take a step back before adopting that adorable mutt or big-eyed feline, because pet ownership can quickly get out of hand. If and when students adopt or buy pets, local experts and [...]
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Moogy is about three years old and housetrained. His former owners foreclosed on their South Florida home and could no longer keep him, reports CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.
Michelle Frier, adoption supervisor at the Wildlife Care Center, said “They were heartbroken - to have to give him up, and I think, he was heartbroken to [...]
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — For years, Jon Wehrenberg flew his single-engine Cessna to other cities to meet clients of his Knoxville, Tenn., manufacturing company.
These days, he puts his plane to perhaps a more noble use, transporting dogs from an overcrowded Knoxville animal shelter to a life with a future.
Wehrenberg transferred five small dogs to Greensboro, N.C., [...]
Animal Control workers weren’t sure what to do when someone dropped off a baby squirrel at the shelter about four weeks ago.
At the same time, they were concerned about a mother cat who seemed down over the recent loss of her kitten.
Then it hit them: What if they put the squirrel and cat together?
To this [...]
