Category Archives: Pets
Anthropomorphize Much? Depends on Where You Live
Look at your dog. Are you seeing a dog or your child? If you live in the city you are more likely to view your pets as family.
A study entitled “‘I Can’t Be Without a Dog!’ Understanding Variations in Interactions and Relationships with Pets” was conducted at Indiana University South Bend by David Blouin, assistant professor [...]
Rabies Seemingly More Prevalent
This last weekend while I was walking Stanley I saw a notice on a community board in Reston that a rabid raccoon had been caught recently. Seeing this reinforced all the news items on rabies – the two rabid bats found in Orange County, CA at the end of July; a cat with a confirmed [...]
Friday Quote – Rescuer’s Creed
As many of you know Tigertail Foods is an active supporter of animal rescue – both financially and physically. Everyone in the company has either adopted or fostered a dog or cat that was given up by its owner. Right now several rescue groups are drowning under the volume of pets being turned in. Every [...]
Fido & Fluffy Are So Yesterday
Veterinary Pet Insurance Company for the last two years has compiled the “top 50 wackiest pet names” taken from the company’s client database. The winners for 2009 for the dog and cat were, respectively, Doogie Schnauzer Md and Snag L. Tooth. They have just released the names for the 2010 list.
The dogs:
Pickle Von Corndog
Lord Chubby [...]
Helping Pets Deal with the Summer Heat
Along the east coast summer has been settling in and making it feel a lot more like August than mid-June. As the rest of the country heats up I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone that pets, in particular dogs, have a hard time coping with the unusually high temperatures and [...]
Link Love – Animal News Round Up
Are you a “dogler”? New York is full of ’em. (New York Daily News)
The education is working – most people say they will NOT buy a pup from a pet store YAY! (LA Times)
Sad ending for a couple who broke their pit bull out of shelter to avoid euthanasia. (SF Gate)
Bo Obama valued at $1600 [...]
Tails on the Trail: Luna
Meet Luna. Luna lives in New York and I’m told is the friendliest of girls. A friend of Luna (and everyone is Luna’s friend!) took this photo and, after reading this morning’s haiku, thought that we needed to see what a real outstretched nose looked like.
Luna, it is lovely to meet you!
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Tigertail Foods’ Pumpkin [...]
Albuquerque Cat Found 1300 Miles From Home
Eight months ago Robin Alex’s cat, Charles, disappeared while Alex was out of town working for Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans. Charles was being watched by one of Alex’s friends. No one knows where he went or what happened to him- until now.
Chicago Animal Care and Control called Alex to let her know that [...]
Easter and Bunnies
This Sunday is Easter, a nightmare holiday for rabbit rescue groups. The business of bunny sales skyrockets around this time of year. And much like Christmas and puppies, the bunnies bought for children at Easter are whim buys that end up as inconvenient problems once the holiday is over.
The LA Times reported that [...]
Kate Gosselin Announces Dogs to Come Back
Oh. My. God.
Really?!?!?
If you remember in September of last year we told you about the Gosselin dogs being returned to their breeder during the height of Kate and Jon’s much publicized divorce. Supposedly, Kate didn’t want the dogs in the first place (and why would a woman with 8 children want to take on the [...]