I received a couple of e-mails last week with information on a new website that allows visitors to “obtain valuable pet care information, interact with fellow pet lovers in an online community, and shop online to raise money for homeless pets.” What I like is that you get to choose which shelter your purchases will support, so you can keep your money local.
Although we’d rather you got all of your dog-related information from us, we felt obligated to pass this information on because it does help raise funds for an important cause: reducing the number of animals left to live out their days in shelters. Anyways, below is the press release, and I’ve added the site to our blogroll as well.
If you’re like me, there are days you wonder why you ever bothered to have kids in the first place. Here is our list of the reasons why we should have all just stuck with our dogs.
As you may have noticed, we had major problems with the site yesterday. So sorry to all who tried to get in, and thanks for coming back today! At any rate, our Saturday Survey feature became a Sunday Survey this week.
I was trolling through google news today, looking for stories that relate to the dog world, and was thoroughly struck dumb at the contrast between the first two stories I found. You want the good one or the bad one first?
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 to be closer to the action. Take our poll below and tell us what your dogs do when they hear fireworks. Continue reading Saturday Survey: Your dog and fireworks→
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 night, he ran a feature on rescue dogs who showed their stuff at a surfing competition to raise funds for the charity Modest Needs.
The dogs are just too cute on their little surfboards – hard to describe – you have to watch it yourself!
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.
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.
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 that it is beyond your means or desire to keep all of them, and that if you are reading this blog you have too much respect for canines to drown them in a burlap sack.
Don’t you hate it when you drive around your town and see a dog tied to a doghouse in all sorts of weather? Or a dog that looks like he has never been played with in his life? Got me thinking about how hard it is for most of us to get involved, to stand up for what’s right. So, that’s the topic this week: Would you report a neighbor who wasn’t treating his dog right?
I received a couple of e-mails last week with information on a new website that allows visitors to “obtain valuable pet care information, interact with fellow pet lovers in an online community, and shop online to raise money for homeless pets.” What I like is that you get to choose which shelter your purchases will support, so you can keep your money local.
If you’re like me, there are days you wonder why you ever bothered to have kids in the first place. Here is our list of the reasons why we should have all just stuck with our dogs.
Happy 233rd, America!
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.