Katherine Heigl, Dr. Izzie Stevens of Grey’s Anatomy fame, has proven herself to be a true canine-atarian, with her recent actions.
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Category Archives: Dog News
Canine Oscars
Did you know that there is an organization dedicated to recognizing superior acting prowess among dogs?
A New Cruella De Vil
I have to ask again: what is wrong with people? Did you see the news from Selden, NY late last week?
How many bulldogs are too many?
Just ask Daisy Mae, featured in an ABC News story afte giving birth to a litter of 21 (yes, that’s twenty-one) pups! And you though Octo-Mom had problems!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Gibson’s Successor Named as World’s Tallest Dog
Titan, a four-year old Great Dane from San Diego, has been named as the world’s tallest dog, succeeding Gibson who passed away earlier this year after a brave struggle against bone cancer.
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Al Franken: comedian, Senator, and now dog admirer
Many people say the economy is the most pressing problem facing the country today, but Al Franken took the time to introduce a bill in Congress to help our country’s veterans heal from their war wounds by matching them with service dogs.
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Canine Breast Cancer
As we end October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I thought this story from WEWS in Cleveland was appropriate. (No, it doesn’t involve NFL players wearing pink shoes – have you ever seen anything more ridiculous?)
Top Ten Tuesday: Hero Dogs
I recently wrote an article called Extraordinary Hero Dogs for our Doggies Den article library. I’m not sure when it will be available, but I thought I’d give you a preview here. These are dogs who, although not specifically trained to be assistance dogs or rescue dogs, performed an act of heroism to benefit their families, or in some cases, total strangers. Out of the forty-four dogs profiled in the article, here are what I consider the top ten.
Dogs Can Make Your Kids Healthy
OK, we all know there are many advantages to sharing your life with a dog, but how about this! The New York Times is reporting on a study being done by the the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, in cooperation with the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition in England (part of the Mars candy and pet food company).
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Dogs: Smarter than we thought?
A new article in Time Magazine shows that dogs may well be smarter than we thought. Seems Brian Hare, an anthropologist at Duke, has worked out an experiment that shows that a dog can respond to a finger point. Now those of you who have trained your dogs using hand signals may not think this is too ground-breaking, but apparently, it’s quite an accomplishment. From the article:
Consider…all the mental work that goes into figuring out what a pointed finger means: paying close attention to a person, recognizing that a gesture reflects a thought, that another animal can even have a thought.
When you think about it that way, I guess it is pretty remarkable! Apparently, no other animal (besides man) is capable of interpreting a gesture.
The article goes on to discuss other evidence of intelligence in dogs, as well as looking at how these abilities developed. It’s a bit long, but worth the time – very interesting!
OK, now I have to be snarky for just a minute. Does anyone else think it’s funny that the picture from the article (shown above) shows a greyhound and a guy named HARE? Wonder if the dog chases him around the lab???? Wonder if his mother knows she paid for his education only to find him playing with dogs!
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!