As promised, here are the top ten pet peeves humans have about dogs.
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Dog Bite Prevention Week
In honor of dog bite prevention week, doggies.com is proud to present this list of helpful links that can help protect all of us from biting dogs.
Saturday Survey: What’s a vicious dog?
We recently changed carriers for our home insurance, and since we have so many dogs, we had to fill out several questionnaires so the insurance company could figure out what type of risk they were taking on.
In order to answer some of the questions, I had to have the agent send us a copy of the dog laws in Ohio, which set forth definitions for “dangerous dogs” and “vicious dogs”.
Legalities aside, what do you think – what constitutes a vicious dog?
Will your dog bite the mailman?
You’ve heard the old joke, “Does your dog bite?” and the answer is, of course, “Does he have teeth?” The truth is that any dog, given the proper set of circumstances, can and will bite.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AMVA), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) report that small children, the elderly, and Postal Service carriers, in that order are the most frequent victims of dog bites.
May 18 – 24 is National Dog Bite Prevention Week, and the United States Postal Service wants you to know the following.
Saturday Survey: How often do you walk your dog?
I just wrote an article on walking your dog for our Straight Poop newsletter, and as I confessed on Tuesday, I rarely walk my dogs as I should. How about you?
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Tuesday Top Ten: Excuses for not walking your dog
I was writing an article today for this weekend’s edition of Straight Poop, our free e-mail newsletter. The article was on teaching your dog to walk nicely on a leash, and it got me to thinking about why I never walk my dogs. Here are my top ten excuses – what are yours?
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Hoping Your Dogs’ Weekend Was Better Than Mine!
As most of you know, I’ve been trying to get our dogs into dock diving, but so far no luck. We tried with Cooper at the Pet Expo in Columbus last month – who knew a Vizsla would be scared of the water?
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Choosing the Perfect Dog: Advice from the Dog Whisperer
OK, so I’m a little behind, but I’m still making my way through the March issue of Reader’s Digest. They had some very good advice from Cesar Milan, The Dog Whisperer, on how to find the perfect dog for your family.
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Loyal to the end, and then some
There was a neat (but sad) story in my local paper the other day. This elderly man had bought a Golden Retriever for his wife several years ago, but when the wife died in 2006, he and the dog became inseparable. Continue reading Loyal to the end, and then some
Update on Chance, the dog abused in Michigan
I posted yesterday about Chance, a dog found by the side of the road after being horribly abused. As it turns out, the man who rescued Chance from the side of the road is a contractor for AEP, where I work my day job. (Byron Tate works at AEP’s Cook Plant.) The rescue has been given lots of space on our in-house website, and today I found out that another AEP employee saw Chance when she took her own dog to the vet.
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