Archive for March, 2008
« Previous EntriesLet’s Talk Chocolate Toxicity and Dogs
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
As a dog owner, you should know by now that your dog should not eat chocolate. It is toxic and in a large enough quantity, it can kill! So let’s talk a little about chocolate and what’s in it that’s the problem.
The toxic component of chocolate is theobromine.
The [...]
Trend in Popular Dog Names Shows Change in Dogs’ Status
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
There was a time not so long ago that popular dog names used to be Spot and Buddy and Buster but nowadays the trend is to give human names to dogs. Popular names today include Max, Jake, Lucy and Molly. This change in popular names also shows dogs’ [...]
Puppy Tossed in Dumpster - Puppy Crisis Coming - VIDEO
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
This tiny little 10 week old puppy is recovering after being rescued from a Madera apartment complex Dumpster in Fresno. “Unbelievable. I think it’s really sad because I don’t know how long the puppies been in the dumpster,” said resident Melissa Vasquez.
And the saddest part is that [...]
Oprah, Going to the Dogs - Puppy Mill Dogs!
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
If you’re an Oprah fan, dog lover, dog advocate, this is one show you’re not going to want to miss!! On April 4, Oprah is doing a segment on puppy mills and this should really help to bring more awareness to this horror. The segment is called “Lisa [...]
Newly Identified Eye Disease In Dogs Can Be Easily Treated
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Sinisa Grozdanic, assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Iowa State University, has identified and named an eye disease not previously known. The disease, Immune-Mediated Retinopathy, or IMR, causes loss of function in retinal cells and, in some cases, blindness in canines.
IMR is very similar to a previously known [...]
Pet Dog Thrown from Overpass - VIDEO
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Someone please tell me what kind of a sick person lures someone’s pet dog and then throws it from an overpass to the ground, 15′ below?
Well, that’s what happened to Haley Savage’s one year old boxer, Seven, last Wednesday. Witnesses reported seeing a woman in a red [...]
Hunting, like all animal abuse, simply should not be
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Mark Mifsud Bonnici, secretary of the “St Hubertus” hunters, writes a letter in today’s The Sunday Times (entitled “Hunting as it should be”) in which he both seeks to defend the practice of legal hunting by correctly claiming that the meat bought from supermarkets is also the product of killed [...]
Dog Shot with Arrow Succumbs to Injury, Dies
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Conan, a 150 lb Mastiff belonging to Liam and Amanda O’Hara, was shot in the chest with a razor tipped hunting arrow at his home in the 4200 block of Second Avenue Northeast, Wellington, WA on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. There were hopes that Conan, would survive, but [...]
Three Legged Dumpster Dogs Gets New Home & A Job - VIDEO
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
This could have been yet another horror story of an abandoned puppy, and had she not been found, she most like would not have made it. Instead, it’s a story of love and inspiration.
For a 9 week old birth defect puppy, St. Patrick’s Day really was a lucky [...]
Decapitated Dog Found
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Tuesday evening the police found the body of a dog that had been deliberately decapitated in Kansas City, MO. The dog appeared to be a male 4 yr old shepherd or border collie mix and it was located in the driveway of an apartment complex on Locust Street [...]
Hunting dogs are no dummies, but neither are we
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Fabian Borg of the Federation for Hunters, Trappers and “Conservationists” is the next to write to The Times in reply to my letter of March 11, where I made it clear enough that:
“The question is not: ‘Should we choose the dog over the bird or the bird over the dog?’, [...]
Deployed TN Soldier’s Dog, Rocky, URGENT
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
I wish we could find home for all the dogs that so desperately need them but there’s something that touches me deeply when a soldier deployed into action has to give up his beloved canine companion and can only hope and pray that a good home can [...]
Save Congo! We Need to Act NOW!
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Many of you know the story of Congo the German Shepherd from Patterson, NJ.
Congo was sentenced to death for doing what he felt was the right thing to do, for protecting his pack, his family. While waiting for the appeal he was allowed to go home with [...]
The Many Health Benefits of Dogs as Pets
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
According to studies, having a dog as a companion could add years to your life. One study concluded that owning a dog played a significant role on survival rates in heart attack victims. In another one of these studies, patients were evaluated for one year after they had [...]
Top 5 Canine Diseases - Know the Signs and Symptoms - Part 2
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Canine Parainfluenza
This type of disease is considered to be one of the highly contagious respiratory canine illnesses and largely contributes to the possibility of contracting upper respiratory diseases and infectious tracheobronchitis. More often than not, environmental factors come into play and increases to possibility of development. Drafts and [...]
Hunters’ vote…it really didn’t matter
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Carmel Farrugia, in today’s The Times, writes that “To some biased people the recent general election ‘proved’ that hunters and trappers are ‘a spent force’ and the hunters’ and trappers’vote ‘totally insignificant and ineffective’”.
I’m not sure whether Mr Farrugia would consider me as one of the “biased people”. All I [...]
“Hunting” dogs, animal rights and breeding property
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Ray Zammit, in defensive-mode, writes a letter in today’s The Times, in reply to my own where I explained that dogs who accompany hunters in Malta do not hunt, but simply fetch, and that this makes the suggestion by Danica Rosso that abolishing hunting is cruel to dogs, absurd.
Mr Zammit [...]
A Dog’s Wag Means More than You Think
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
We’re so used to seeing a dog’s wagging tail whenever we approach our own pooches and we know that it means our dog is happy to see us but it seems there’s more to a wag than we thought.
Our pets have their own ways of letting us know [...]
On “being”
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
All beings have an interest in continued existence. “Being” is, in fact, a noun meaning “existence”. To be is to exist. So, by definition, a being has an interest in continued being, or existence. Otherwise, that which we are describing is not a being at all.
Is there anyone reading this that [...]
Is Secondhand Smoke Killing Our Pets?
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
To be quite honest, that’s a really stupid question! If it’s killing us, how can it not be harming and killing our dogs and cats?
So from Science Daily, here’s some more info on the harm we’re causing by continuing to puff away around our furbabies.
It has been in [...]
Latest column up at TasteBetter.com
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
My latest column for TasteBetter.com is up! It’s called Don’t just do something, and in it I discuss the need to focus our activism where it counts, to inform our activism, and to not just busy ourselves with anything that happens to resemble animal advocacy.
I hope you will read it and [...]
Do You Ever Wonder What Your Dog is Doing When You’re Not Around??
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Like most dog owners I leave my furkids at home alone sometimes and yup, I wonder what they’re doing or getting into. Well here’s some funny pictures that may give you a clue what your pooch may be up to when you’re not around to see or supervise!
Visit [...]
Top 5 Canine Diseases - Know the Signs and Symptoms - Part 1
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Caring for your pet dog naturally includes not just simply providing food and shelter, but more importantly giving priority to maintaining health and well being. This means having an extensive knowledge on what are the most common ailments that can possibly snuff out the life of your adorable [...]
Boston Vegan Meatout “Veeg-In”
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
Amazingly, though we were braving a pretty severe storm system yesterday and last night, rain did not interfere with our Vegan Feed-In (or “Veeg-In”) at lunch today in the Downtown Crossing of Boston, MA. No rain at all, in fact… but quite a lot of wind!
We handed about 100 lucky Bostonians [...]
Caring for Your Older Dog
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Dogs mature at different rates. As a rule, large-breed dogs mature earlier than small dogs. But if your dog is age seven or older, he’s probably approaching, or in, his senior years. This may mean a change in lifestyle for him and for you.
Companionship and commitment to your [...]
