Archive for July, 2009
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Someone in San Francisco is looking out for elderly dogs. Sherri Franklin, the founder and executive director of Muttville, started the organization in 2007 to find homes and provide foster care or hospice for abandoned senior and special-needs dogs.
Many of these old dogs end up in shelters because their ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Is your dog afraid of thunder? Does she suffer from separation anxiety? Sound researcher, music producer and authority in the field of psychoacoustics, John Leeds, has collaborated with veterinary neurologist Dr. Susan Wagner to write the book Through a Dog's Ear: Using Sound to Improve the Health & Behavior of ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Harry and Pepper were a couple of male penguin pals living in the San Francisco Zoo. The two of them adopted an egg last year, incubated it, hatched it, and provided care for the chick. But a different sort of chick has busted up the same-sex pair. Linda, widowed when ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
July 19-25, 2009, is Best Friends Week, marking the 25th anniversary of the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS). The mission of Best Friends can be summed up in one phrase: No More Homeless Pets. The organization is a grassroots network of people and groups that care for and about animals.
In ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon." Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman (from The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
And now there is not even one. Illegal hunting of the Maltese ...
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