Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
UNITED WE STAND
In the words of Alexandre Dumas:
"One for all, all for one."
This is an unattributed photograph that was sent in an email.
Have a safe, happy Halloween. Do your best to keep your pets out of harm's way today (and always).
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The United States Department of Defense has released a video of the October 21, 2008, arrival in the United States of Ratchet, a dog rescued from a burning trash pile in Iraq by Army Spc. Gwen Beberg and another U.S. soldier. He passed his medical exam in Virginia, and arrived ...
Posted in Animal News, Baghdad Pups, Dogs, Video | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Josh Keen, 17, of Colorado Springs won $500 and a year's supply of duct tape for taking first place with his parrot costume in the Henkel Corp.'s Duck Brand Duct Tape Stick or Treat Halloween Costume Contest. "I've always liked duct tape," said Mr. Keen, a high school senior ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
A blogger wrote that Audrey, the Golden Doodle puppy belonging to Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, looks like Charles Krauthammer, the political commentator and Fox News contributor. Maybe it's just me, but I think the dog looks a bit like Greta. What do you think?
Ms. Van Susteren is ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
It is hard enough to get my dogs to sit still when I try to dress them up for a holiday photograph. This Bulldog puppy is about as relaxed as one can be! (The photograph was one of many in an email I received entitled "Why Dogs Hate Halloween.")
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Combat-wounded dogs may now be treated at a $15 million veterinary hospital that opened Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas. There are currently 2,500 dogs working with American military units. Dogs that are injured or become ill in the war zone in Afghanistan ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Feed tainted with melamine is believed to have caused the deaths of 1,500 raccoon dogs bred in China for their fur. Necropsies performed on a dozen of the animals determined that they all died of kidney failure in the past two months. A newspaper reported that the source of the ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Operation Baghdad Pups program manager, Terri Crisp, met an Iraqi puppy named Ratchet at the Baghdad airport Sunday night, October 19, 2008. The two boarded a plane bound for Kuwait, and will go from there to the United States.
The black puppy ...
Posted in Animal News, Animal Rescue, Baghdad Pups, Dogs | 2 Comments »
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Back in December 2007, CritterBlog reported that Vladimir Putin wanted to spy on his dog, a black Labrador named Connie (Koni). What Prime Minister Putin wants, Mr. Putin gets. It was announced on Friday, October 17, 2008, that a collar fitted with a Glonass devise was put on the dog. ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Like it or not, city slickers, but you have hunters and fishermen to thank for wildlife management and conservation in the United States. It was President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, who led the movement to establish the first laws restricting the commercial slaughter of wildlife. “There can be no ...
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