Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Once a common name for dogs, "Fido" comes from the Latin word fidelis, meaning "faithful." Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido was a yellowish brown mongrel, thought to have been born in 1855. It is said that Fido loved attention, and was known to enjoy chasing his own tail. He is the ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
On Friday, March 27, 2008, the Georgia Senate unanimously passed legislation that makes it a felony to engage in dogfighting. It would also be a crime to breed dogs for fighting or to attend dog fights. Governor Sonny Perdue, a dog owner who earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Baby seals are being killed right now in Canada. The annual slaughter of baby seals began just before dawn this morning. Help make it stop. CLICK HERE for more information from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). This link contains a video with graphic images. It's hard to ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Perhaps it is a macabre expression of progress for a communist nation ruled by a one-party dictatorship that their death camps are filled with cats. For China, gearing up for the 2008 Beijing Olympics includes rounding up tens of thousands of cats and warehousing them in pitiful conditions. When a ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Upon his return from Iraq on Saturday, March 22, 2008, Major Brian Dennis, 36, was greeted at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego by a two-year old mutt named Nubs.
While on patrol in Anbar province last October, Maj. Dennis first saw the mongrel dog. In late December, Maj. ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
How would you react if I showed you a brief video depicting a sheep, a horse, an ox, a pig, a goat and a doe being slaughtered in Mexico, each by a blow to the head with a hammer? There is such a video. No, it is not the latest ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
A law proposed by the Greens allows dogs, cats and other pets to be taken to any sort of public place in Tuscany. This includes not only outdoor spaces, but also museums, theaters and restaurants. The bill's sponsor, Fabio Roggiolani, predicts it will be law by the summer. "We ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Dorotheus, a four-year old neutered tom cat, will soon be taking up residence in the Kremlin, with Russian President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana. It has been reported that Dorotheus was once bested in a fight with a cat belonging to Mikhail Gorbachev, a neighbor of the Medvedevs.
Outgoing President ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, Pima County sheriff's deputies and animal welfare officials seized approximately 800 small dogs, including Chihuahuas, Pomeranians and terriers, from an elderly couple living in a triple-wide trailer northwest of Tuscon, Arizona. Jenny Rose, a spokeswoman for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona (HSSA), said, "Obviously, ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Thanks to the Baghdad Pups program of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International (SPCA) and the efforts of some U.S. soldiers, Socks, an Iraqi street dog that served as perimeter security for a coalition outpost, was brought to Washington DC on March 13, 2008, as ...
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