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Dog News

Is the Economy Making It Hard To Keep Your Dog?

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According to some sources, 10,000 homes are being foreclosed upon per DAY, and new foreclosure proceedings start every 30 seconds.

We have many victims of the economy who are losing their jobs and/or need help feeding their pets. Some just need pet friendly housing or security deposit help to keep their pets.

Can you help? Be a virtual or local volunteer and Help foreclosure/economy pets with their families or be placed safely! We have a whole new group of pet owners looking to place their pets who do not know the dangers that we know of!

Craigslist and Freecycle pets need us!

Help educate people on the statistics of owner surrenders in shelter/pounds.

Help raise awareness to the problems we face outside of our network.

Join ForeclosurePetRescue: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ForeclosurePetRescue

Also http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Peace4Pets/ Group for owner surrenders for any reason. This group was created to help foreclosure pets and economy victims find rescue or foster and to avoid shelters and pounds. We are here to help the silent victims and to help educate and raise awareness to this problem. We need to let people know there are dangers AND options.

Until next time,

Good day, and good dog!

Health

Can You Help Tigger Fight Canine Cancer?

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Received this information from Kathy DeRay, who is trying to save her dog, Tigger, a second time.  After rescuing Tigger 3 years ago, she is now trying to help him survive liver cancer, but as you can imagine, it is quite expensive.  If you can help her with even a small donation, please visit her fundraising site.

Those of you who are regular readers know I lost my Beagle mix, Molly, to lymphatic cancer many years ago, and more recently lost my Coonhound/Lab Mix, Tracy, to cancer of the jaw.  In both cases, they did not respond to any of the treatments we tried, but it looks like Tigger may have a chance.  Maybe if we can help Kathy raise the funds she needs, she won’t have to go through the heartbreak so many of us have experienced.

Until next time,

Good day, and good dog!

Dog Shows, Poll

Survey Saturday: You Be the Westminster Best in Show Judge

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blue-ribbonObviously, the biggest thing in the dog world this week has been the 133rd Annual Westminster Kennel Club Show.  We all know by now that the Sussex Spaniel won, but is that the dog you would have picked? 

Listed below are the 7 Best in Group winners – which one would you have picked?

Continue reading Survey Saturday: You Be the Westminster Best in Show Judge →

Shelters

PetSmart Adoption Weekend

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If you are looking to add a new furry friend to your family soon, why not go to PetSmart this weekend. They are sponsoring A Second Chance for Love adoption weekend February 13 -15, 2009 at all of their stores, in cooperation with Hills brand dog foods. The goal is to find homes for 13,500 pets in need. They suggest you call your local store to check on what times the adoption agencies will be in each store.
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!

Dog Humor

The Dog Food Diet

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Yesterday I was buying 2 large bags of dog food at Walmart, for Winston, Chief, Gus, and Maximus.  I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think, that I had an elephant?

Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Dog Food Diet again, although I probably shouldn’t because I ended up in the hospital last time. On the bright side though, I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of every hole in my body and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with dog food nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

(I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was enthralled with my story by now.)

Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned me. I told her no; I had stopped in the middle of the parking lot to lick my butt, and a car hit me.

I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard!

WAL-MART won’t let me shop there anymore.

Enjoy your day!

Until next time,

Good day, and good dog!

I have to give credit where credit is due. Thanks to friend-of-the-blogger Connie for sending this to me.