Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Animal control systems in our communities are based on the premise that stray and/or unwanted animals were once owned. The mission of these organizations is to return lost animals to their owners or to find new adoptive homes for unclaimed or unwanted pets. Many dogs and cats are euthanized when ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was a KGB intelligence officer for 17 years, would like to use satellite technology to spy on his dog. He inquired about fitting Connie (aka Koni), a black Labrador, with a "sat-nav" collar. The dog's every move could then be tracked using GLONASS, a Russian ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Afghanistan: Casualties
Australian Military Working Dog Andy (aka EDD452, or Explosive Detection Dog 452), a two-year-old kelpie cross, died on Thursday, November 22, 2007. He was hit by a vehicle during a bomb-detection exercise. Andy is the third Australian dog to be killed in Afghanistan in the line of duty. ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
When employees returned to work on December 8, 2007, just three days after a crazed gunman shot and killed nine people at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, they were met by a Collie named Cabernet, a German Shepherd named Mackenzie, a Golden Retriever named Toby, and Sadie, a Labrador Retriever. ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Which makes more sense: prowling cats or urban rats? If you ask a bureaucrat in New York, the answer would be this: New York City health code and State law forbid animals in places where food or beverages are sold for human consumption. Fines range from $300 for a first ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
On December 13, 2007, Boe and Budge, two black Labrador Retrievers, were introduced to two United States Army sergeants from the 85th Medical Detachment in a ceremony at America’s VetDogs headquarters in Smithtown, New York. Sgt. Mike Calaway, an occupational therapist, will take Boe with him to Tikrit, Iraq. Sgt. ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
On July 11, 1998, when Mike Huckabee was governor of Arkansas, his son David was a 17-year old counselor at Boy Scout Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Arkansas. David Huckabee was an alleged participant in the brutal killing of a stray dog while at the camp, and was dismissed from his ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Last July, when Paris Hilton bought a Chihuahua at Pets of Bel Air, she probably didn't know that this pet store buys and sells puppies bred at puppy mills. This information probably was not disclosed to Britney Spears either, when she stopped into Pets of Bel Air, also in July ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Barney Cam VI, a dog's-eye video portrayal of a Holiday in the National Parks, is now playing on the White House web site. It stars White House dogs Barney and Miss Beazley, President and Mrs. George W. Bush, a soundtrack of Christmas music, and some surprise appearances by stellar guests. ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
ASPCA Unveils Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit
New York, December 11, 2007— The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA) brings the fight against animal cruelty into the 21st century by unveiling today in New York the first-ever Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit in ...
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