Animal Companions
"Trakr was so much a part of my life, and, you know, he was more than just my partner," Symington said. "He was my best friend and my lifelong companion. Seeing and having his legacy live on in these puppies is a tremendous gift...." actually pulled the last remaining survivor from the rubble itself...
About 3 hours later at home, Jack started exhibiting, well, strange symptoms. "His eyes were kind of glossed over, very out of touch, I mean, he didn't seem to recognize me at first.... When he was trying to walk, he was looking at his paw, and then looking at the ground and then trying to get his paw to reach the ground, but was unsuccessful." Concern for Jack turned to relief when she heard the vet's diagnosis: Jack had swallowed a large amount of dried, harvested marijuana....
Horowitz was able to show that the human tendency to attribute a "guilty look" to a dog was not due to whether the dog was indeed guilty. Instead, people see 'guilt' in a dog's body language when they believe the dog has done something it shouldn't have — even if the dog is in fact completely innocent of any offense.
The five-year-old Great Pyrenees is credited with saving the lives of Moss and her son David, 19, by alerting them to an early morning fire.... Smelling smoke and hearing the crackle of fire, mother and son fled the house around 6 a.m. with Jeter following. For an unknown reason, the 120-pound dog went back into the house and perished.... "He'd had such a tough time. He'd been starved, beaten and abused," Glenda Moss said, sobbing as friends and neighbors stopped by after hearing of the fire. "My dog was just amazing."
A Tulsa groomer brings the salon to your pet.
A grieving pet owner says a Catoosa police officer cruelly killed her dog. The two-year-old Boxer was shot after police say she lunged at the officer [News video]
Bartlesville Police Department officers shot and killed a pit bull dog Wednesday after it reportedly attacked several children before turning on officers.
"While we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal," the researchers say in the paper, "the survival and well-being of the animal may be severely impacted in doing so."
bald eagle had swooped down and snatched her bag out of her hand... landed in the street and pulled the handbag open to check the contents.... Police... later found the bird hiding in a field and traced it back to its owner Ernst Koenig.... "It's a trained bird which got out into the wild. It's never had to find food for itself before and the woman's handbag was the same colour and shape as the bag its owner keeps his food in."
A cat named Felix was found alive and well beneath the rubble of a six-storey building in Cologne that collapsed five weeks ago.... The 12-year-old cat was in surprisingly good health....
Hospital officials in Ohio say a Connecticut woman mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage. The Cleveland Clinic said 55-year-old Charla Nash also lost the bone structure in her face when she was attacked on February 16 in Stamford.
EXETER, N.H. -- A cat aptly named Ugly is attracting a lot of attention at an Exeter vet clinic, where clients say they can't take their eyes off his striking appearance. ... The cat's striking appearance is normal, for him. He was part of a litter of four with a sister that looked just like him.... Workers said many people who come into the building can't really believe what they're seeing. But they said despite appearances, Bat Boy has a nice disposition and real inner beauty.
...appeared to be well-fed... family was allowed to keep four cats and they promised to give away the dogs.
The Animal Humane Society says all of the 120 cats removed from a St. Anthony mobile home had to be euthanized. Spokeswoman Deb Balzer says the cats had diseases ranging from feline AIDS and herpes to upper respiratory infections and ringworm. She says the cats, which had been living in a 500-square-foot mobile home, were "very damaged animals."
The owner locked the car doors and refused to come out when a constable tried to serve her a warrant ... Two puppies and 20 dogs were taken to a shelter until a judge decides who gets custody.... "The ammonia level in the vehicle was 23 parts per million even after the doors had been opened for several minutes...."
More than 100 chickens, rabbits, rodents, iguanas and tarantulas have been removed from a two-bedroom Buffalo apartment by authorities who needed three vans to cart off the menagerie.
A lobster thought to be about 140 years old will be returned to the ocean after briefly becoming the mascot for a New York City restaurant, an animal rights group said on Friday. The 20-pound (9-kg) lobster was caught off the coast of Canada about two weeks ago and bought for $100 by City Crab and Seafood to become its mascot, said manager Keith Valenti. "We bought a big lobster, started taking pictures with kids and it worked out real well," said Valenti, adding it was a "no brainer" to return the old crustacean to the ocean.
This concrete will work as a thermal mass to exchange the heat into the actual house portion of your dog's domicile/home.
In terms of heating a dog house, here are some suggestions arranged in order of increasing expense and complexity.