Abandoned Dogs Are All Wags When The Rescuers Come To Help
Our hearts really go out to abandoned animals. They have so much love to give and unfortunately, the people who had them previously did not see it in their hearts to give them a good home. In some parts of the world, it is relatively common to see animals living on the street. In other parts of the world, it is not quite so prevalent but it does happen from time to time. Photo: YouTube/DAR Animal Rescue The two dogs in this story were abandoned in Greece. People had seen them in the area for a few weeks and had reported them, but they...
City Refuses To Allow Retiring Police Officer To Keep His K-9 Partner So Community Step In To Help
There are rules in place and all of us have to live by them. Sometimes the rules make sense and they protect us in one way or another. At other times, we wonder why they are a rule in the first place. This came up in an interesting way back in 2016 when a 57-year-old police officer was getting ready to retire. According to NBC News, officer Matthew Hickey had spent 30 years serving the community in Marietta, Ohio on the police force. Photo: GoFundMe After retiring in 2016, he was looking forward to spending his free time with the K-9 officer...
Dog Attempts To Snack On The Dashboard And Puts The Car In Drive
For many families, dogs tend to be homebodies, but for the Shearn family, it was time to take the dog along with them. According to The Dodo, Paul Shearn was headed for his grandparent’s farm along with his family and they had Elvis along with them. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Elvis was with Paul when they went to the store to prepare for the trip. While they were away, the family was going to do some cooking and Paul had some bacon grease ready for seasoning a cast-iron skillet, so he put it in the car. As you can imagine, there...
Internet Community Helps Locate Hundreds of Missing Dogs Each Month… and Has Some Tips
When dogs went missing in the past, relocating them was a bit tougher, since you could only rely on word of mouth, a missing poster here and there, or maybe an ad in a publication. Now, the internet makes it much easier to spread the word, and the members of one online community use the internet to facilitate happy reunions hundreds of times a month. Lost Dogs of King County, located in the Seattle metro area, offers both a Facebook group and a helpful website. Launched by James Branson, founder of lost dog nonprofit Useless Bay Sanctuary,...
Man Stops To Buy A Soda And Ends Up Saving A Dog In The Process
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to rescue a dog before, you realize that it is a two-way street. We may give the dog a good home, plenty of food, and a family but they end up giving us love beyond compare. Nobody knows this better than BJ Nemeth. He is known for traveling around and reporting on poker tournaments throughout the United States with his trusty companion, Brisco. Brisco normally sleeps in the backseat, but when we come to a stop, he thinks it’s time to get out and comes up front. “Are we there yet?”...
Sick Sea Lions Stranded on Oregon Coast Could Impact Health of Dogs, Officials Warn
On Halloween, wildlife officials off Oregon’s coast sent out a warning to dog owners that their pets could be impacted by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a naturally occurring bacteria that can occur sporadically in marine mammals. Unfortunately, the bacteria can also sicken other wildlife — not to mention humans, dogs, and livestock, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife informed the public. They noted that while the risk to humans is slight, dogs have a higher chance of getting the disease. Photo: Pixabay/mcgrout Oregon Sea...
Pet Parent Gets Hit with an $8,000 Vet Bill After Family Weimaraner Gulps Down Rock
A family from Porth in the Rhondda, Wales region of the U.K. were alarmed when their Weimaraner, Milo, started throwing up and bleeding. Naturally, they whisked the stricken animal to the vet to find out what was causing the symptoms. Once they arrived, the veterinarian asked if he had possibly eaten anything he shouldn’t have. One of his owners, Shannon Stone, noted that the four-year-old occasionally chewed on socks, but hadn’t seen him eating anything out of the ordinary recently. Emergency Vet Clinics The vet soon did a scan...
The Terrifying Black Shuck of English Folklore
Regardless of which country you hale from, there is bound to be ancient folklore surrounding animals and humans that were otherworldly in the eyes of the people that inhabited those times. Always searching for something to explain that which they feared or didn’t understand, a lot of it focused on cats and dogs. This didn’t bode well for animals if their coats happened to be black. As scientists now know today, the gene for black coats is the most common. Back then, however, anything and everything could arouse suspicions of...
Family Dumped Their 19 Year Old Dog At A Shelter, Now She’s Living Out A Bucket List
Dogs are 10 to 15 year commitments and become part of our family. They have so much love to give and should be loved until the end of their lives. Sadly, Annie’s family decided to surrender her to a shelter when she could no longer walk or eat. She is 19 years old and at the end of her life, yet they chose to give up on her. When Lauren Siler saw Annie’s sweet little sad face sitting in her kennel in a picture that was posted on Instagram by the shelter, she knew she had to help. Photo: YouTube/WFAA When Siler acquired about...
New Study Says Baby Talk with Cats Actually Works
A recent study conducted by French researchers points to baby talk as being a good way to converse with your cats. Let’s face it, most of us are guilty of baby-talking to our pets, anyways. We can’t help it. Pets are like our kids, so it would make sense that that’s how we’d engage with them. Now, you don’t have to feel silly or guilty about it if you get caught doing it. Just point to the research and go about your day. Baby Talk According to the study, the researchers conducted three rounds of testing using 16...
