Archive for the ‘Street Dogs’ Category
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Internet search engine Dogpile.com has partnered with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to raise money for animal rescue.
Here is the mission statement displayed at http://rescue.dogpile.com/pets:
You search the Web. Together we'll rescue pets.
We're on a mission to help pets in need. We call ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
In a daring Christmas Eve heist, an unidentified dog walked into Smith's Food & Drug in Murray, Utah, went straight to the pet food on aisle 16, grabbed a rawhide bone off the shelf, and blithely strode towards the exit.
Before leaving, the dog was confronted by store manager Roger Adamson, ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
After a dog was struck and killed by a car on a busy highway in Santiago, Chile on December 4, 2008, another homeless dog ran into the street and dragged the limp canine body to the median strip. A highway crew arrived and removed the dead dog. The dog hero ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
In further evidence that the war in Iraq is winding down, the Iraqi military, under the direction of the provincial council, is now focusing its gunsights on stray dogs. On Sunday, 200 dogs were killed by authorities. Poison meat has also been put out for the dogs. These actions were ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
If you are traveling to Beijing for the summer Olympic games, be on the lookout for stray dogs. According to Phyllis Kozarsky, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, you are less likely to contract an exotic disease than you are to get bitten by a dog ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The weather forecast in Baghdad today is for a high of 89° F. By Sunday it could heat up to 93°. Pretty soon it will be too hot to airlift the 25 dogs and cats waiting to leave Iraq with the military personnel who have claimed these street animals as ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Marine Major Brian Dennis rescued Nubs, a German Shepherd-mix dog, from the streets of Iraq, and brought him to the United States with the help of some friends. On Thursday, April 24, the dog with the roughly clipped ears had his first visit to a Florida beach. "It didn't go ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
BBC News and CNN have reported that due to pressure from animal advocacy groups, authorities in Srinagar have changed course and have stopped the strychnine poisoning of this Kashmir city's estimated 100,000 stray dogs. According to Syed Haq Nawaz, commissioner of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), "We're not going ahead ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Srinagar, a city in Indian Kashmir, has a problem. It is home to 100,000 stray dogs. Last year there were two deaths from the 1,341 dog bites reported last year, says Dr. Saleem Khan, who runs a state rabies clinic.
Most of the world's estimated 55,000 annual rabies deaths occur in ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Marine Major Brian Dennis, 36, is a fighter pilot currently deployed to Iraq, who volunteered to be part of the military team building infrastructure along the Syria-Iraq border. In writing home, he described the relationship between the dogs that foraged in the desert, and the humans who dwell there. "The ...
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