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Saturday Survey: Your dog and fireworks

Happy 233rd, America! As we look forward to all of the fireworks displays scheduled for tonight, it made me wonder about how your dogs feel about fireworks. My dogs are terrified of the noise, so I never leave them outside during the displays, but I know many people who take their dogs to the park [...]

Keep your dog safe on the holiday

As you celebrate America’s independence today, be sure to give some thought to the fact that your dog may not be up for the same sort of celebration as you are. Remember that many common foods are poisonous to dogs - grapes, onions, chocolate, etc, so lock up your dog before you set out the picnic [...]

Dogs raise $45K by surfing!

If you ever watch NBC’s Nightly News, you know that Brian Williams features a segment on “Making a Difference” each night, showing what everyday people are doing to help those less fortunate. Usually, it’s people who work at a soup kitchen, or people who have founded a charity or something pretty conventional. However, the other [...]

Power company hosts search & rescue dog event

I hate to brag, but I have to say again how proud I am of my day-job employer, American Electric Power. The company’s Appalachian Power subsidiary recently hosted the K-9 teams from the Virginia State Police at their Smith Mountain Dam for a training exercise. Jack, pictured, and his buddies needed a space to practice searching [...]

New Government Program Pairs Assistance Dogs with Injured Soldiers

The Associated Press reports today that a new program from the Veterans Administration takes dogs from animal shelters, trains them, and sends them home with soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan to help them in their recovery. For example, Harper, a Golden Retriever was recently matched with Army specialist Cameron Briggs who received a traumatic brain [...]

Sunday Survey: What to do with unwanted puppies?

We’re shaking up your weekend a bit here because Saturday was just a crazy day for me, but here is your survey for this week. Let’s say your dog unexpectedly turned up pregnant. After you got over that sick feeling in the pit of your belly, what would you do with the puppies? I’m assuming here [...]

Friday Funny: Mass for a dog

Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company. One day, the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and said, “Father, my dog is dead. Could ya’ be sayin’ a mass for the poor creature?” Father Patrick replied, “I’m afraid not. We cannot have services for an animal [...]

Angel Service Dogs

Have you heard about Angel Service Dogs? There was an article in People Magazine about the founders, Brett & Sherry Mers of Monument, CO. Their daughter, Riley, is terribly allergic to peanuts, to the point where she cannot enter a room where there is any possible source of contact with a peanut product. Her mom [...]

Just A Dog

Not sure where this came from, so if you can identify the author, please let me know. Thanks to friend-of-the-blogger, Wendy, for sending this to me. From time to time, people tell me “Lighten up, it’s just a dog,” or “That’s a lot o money for just a dog.” They don’t understand the distance traveled, time [...]

Only one dog for the Chinese

The city of Guangzhou, China (formerly known as Canton) has a new regulation set to take effect on July 1st. This law will allow each family to have only one dog, regardless of how many they now have. Supposedly, this will reduce the number of stray dogs wandering the streets of Guangzhou, but most people [...]