“1 dog died get another 1?”
One cool thing about running your own website — in addition to the fame, fortune, respect, freebies, groupies and the tingly feeling my elbows get from typing so much — is that through the use of a...
View ArticleOxytocin is a many splendored thing
Who needs children when a puppy can provide a similar emotional experience? New Scientist magazine recently asked that question in an article about a Japanese study that showed relating to dogs causes...
View ArticleDogs aren’t cure-all for loneliness, study says
Someday I am going to do a study that shows 62 percent of all studies do little more than confirm what people with a modicum of common sense already know. Until then, I will dutifully report on them —...
View ArticleGorilla still mourning death of her mate
Ever since her mate at the Seoul Zoo died last month, a female gorilla named Gorina has been showing signs of depression, zookeepers say. Gorina and her 49-year-old mate Gorirong, who died last month...
View ArticleNo! No! No! He’s too young to be old
Ace has been stricken. With exactly what, I don’t know. But in the past four days, he has taken to yelping when he gets up from a long nap or makes a sudden move. At the dog park this week, he has...
View ArticleArtist needs his therapy dog, state says
The state of Illinois has taken sides with a Chicago artist who says his condo association has no right to separate him from a dog that helps him fight depression. Nio Tavlos believes his 12-pound...
View Article“The Dog Whisperer” may be over, but Cesar Millan isn’t disappearing anytime...
With continuing criticism of his methods, a suicide attempt in his not-too-distant past, and his reign as TV’s “Dog Whisperer” having ended, you might think Cesar Millan’s eight years of snowballing...
View ArticleMcCready “didn’t want dog to be alone”
Fox News is reporting that country singer Mindy McCready’s fatal shooting of her own dog before she commited suicide Sunday was “not an act of malice at all.” Fox quotes an unidentified friend as...
View ArticleWoof in Advertising: Trifexis
This ad for Trifexis depicts a dog living in a bubble — albeit it one that’s outside and has plenty of tubes to run around in. It serves to protect him from heartworms, hookworms, roundworms,...
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