Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The 2009 World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin County Fair broke with tradition in its 21st year. The Chinese Crested breed that has dominated the prize for the past seven years was bypassed this time for a boxer-mix with an under bite. Four-year old Pabst, a shelter dog belonging ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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Bo, the First Dog, has an Official Portrait and an Official Baseball Card. The photograph shows Bo on the South Lawn of the White House.
The card stats indicate that the name "Bo" is indirectly in honor of rock & roll great Bo Diddley (by way of ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Rasa sent me this email the other day, about a newborn baby deer that was rescued during the night, after its mother was killed by a car:
Hi Everyone,
Late in the evening a friend knocked on our door with a newborn baby deer in her arms, not more than an hour ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Four year-old Daniel Blair of Northolt, Middlesex, England, decided to give his one-week old puppy a bath after a muddy excursion in the garden. The problem is that Daniel washed the puppy in the toilet, and then flushed. The hapless pooch vanished down the pipe.
The boy's mother, Allison Blair, 40, ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh has an Abyssinian cat named Punkin. His girlfriend recently got an Old English Sheepdog puppy named Abbey. Punkin and Abbey have met, and are getting along well together. As Mr. Limbaugh explained on his radio show on Monday, "The dog's been over to the house. You ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug specifically for the treatment of cancer in dogs, it was announced on June 3, 2009. The drug, Palladia (toceranib phosphate), manufactured by Pfizer Animal Health Inc., is approved to treat canine cutaneous (skin-based) mast cell tumors. Taken orally every ...
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