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- TV Anchor Gets Attacked on Air - What Lesson's Can We Learn?
- Here's What You Said: Is your pet a matchmaker?
- Westminster Dog Show: Meet the new breeds (on Petfinder)!
- Lost-Pet Reunions: Tommy slipped out the door
- It's Adopt-A-Rescued-Rabbit Month: Are you rabbit-ready?
- A Thundershirt helps a terrified dog trust humans
- Five pet-themed Valentine's Day gifts for your sweetie
- Alison Sweeney Backs 'Million Pound Pledge' for Pets
- Happy Tail: The rabbit had been raised for food
- A rescue dog stars in a Super Bowl commercial!
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TV Anchor Gets Attacked on Air - What Lesson's Can We Learn?
PAW NATION Yesterday
Filed under: Cats , Pets News , Animal Sites We Love 9News By Dr. Marty Becker, via Vetstreet Like everyone else, I cringed when I saw the story of the dog who attacked Denver news anchor Kyle Dyer. Dyer was bitten on the face, and she will be off work for weeks following reconstructive surgery. And Max, the dog? Fate unknown. He's in rabies quarantine, but what will happen to him after that has yet to be decided. Max was on the show to be ...
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Here's What You Said: Is your pet a matchmaker?
PETFINDER BLOG Yesterday
Last month we asked our newsletter readers and Facebook friends if your pets had brought you together with important people in your lives. One reader, who had been single for more than 18 years, met her husband-to-be when he came to her house to adopt a cat she was fostering. They've now been married for 10 years. Stockbyte Karin writes that she'd had high hopes about meeting a significant other through her dog, "but I didn't think it through very ...
Westminster Dog Show: Meet the new breeds (on Petfinder)!
PETFINDER BLOG Yesterday
Today the Westminster Dog Show opens and six "new" dog breeds will be competing for the first time. These breeds -- American English Coonhound, Cesky Terrier, Entlebucher Mountain Dog, Finnish Lapphund, Norwegian Lundehund and Xoloitzcuintle (a.k.a. Mexican Hairless) -- are old friends of Petfinder, and with the exception of the Cesky Terrier, all of them are available for adoption today. Meet them here! Meet Marshall at Willingboro, NJ's Burlington ...
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Lost-Pet Reunions: Tommy slipped out the door
PETFINDER BLOG Fri, Feb 10
Here's another great lost-dog reunion story from our partner HomeAgain . You can help lost pets get home again: Sign up to receive lost pet alerts when a dog or cat goes missing in your area. Tommy was gone for months. Tommy slipped out -- from Virginia in San Diego Tommy slipped out unnoticed on March 21. We posted signs all over our neighborhood and at a couple of local vet hospitals and businesses. We checked the animal shelter a few times ...
It's Adopt-A-Rescued-Rabbit Month: Are you rabbit-ready?
PETFINDER BLOG Fri, Feb 10
Mary Lempert is the founder of The Rabbit Advocate , where this post originally appeared. She has served as a rabbit behavior and rehabilitation consultant for the House Rabbit Society , House Rabbit Network and the MSPCA in Massachusetts and, most recently, for the Almost Home Humane Society in Lafayette, IN. She lives in West Lafayette, IN, with her rabbits Graysie and Willoughby and any number of foster bunnies. Meet adoptable rabbit Sammy at the ...
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A Thundershirt helps a terrified dog trust humans
PETFINDER BLOG Thu, Feb 9
The Petfinder.com Foundation recently partnered with the Thundershirt company to award 5,000 Thundershirts to Petfinder.com members across the country. Thundershirts' constant, gentle pressure has a dramatic calming effect on most dogs when they are anxious, fearful or overexcited. Thundershirts have already helped hundreds of shelter dogs find forever homes. Hertford County Animal Shelter in Winton, NC, received a Thundershirt grant from the Petfinder.com Foundation. ...
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Five pet-themed Valentine's Day gifts for your sweetie
PETFINDER BLOG Wed, Feb 8
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so we asked our Facebook fans , "Have you ever included your pet in a romantic gesture?" Your responses gave us some great ideas. Thinkstock 1. Send a message via your pet's collar. Christa W.'s sweetheart proposed this way. "My fiance had two dog tags made," she writes. "One said 'will you' and the other said 'marry me?' And when I looked back at him he was on one knee with the ring!" 2. Create a pet- ...
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Alison Sweeney Backs 'Million Pound Pledge' for Pets
ZOOTOO Wed, Feb 8
Host of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" tackles growing problem of pet obesity. Allison Sweeney, the host of NBC's reality show "The Biggest Loser," is familiar with the realities and struggles of weight loss. So it came as a surprise to her when she realized that her Boston Terrier, Winky, was several pounds overweight. "I wanted to do something about it right away," Sweeney told Zootoo in an e-mail. Sweeney and her family changed up their routine: after ...
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Happy Tail: The rabbit had been raised for food
PETFINDER BLOG Tue, Feb 7
Read Ashley's adoption story in her "mom" Laurelin's original words . When 12-year-old Ernie's bond mate passed away, he was lonely. Laurelin Sitterly of Providence, RI, had adopted Ernie from Sweet Binks Rabbit Rescue in Foster, RI, nine years earlier, so that's where the family turned to find him a new friend. "Knowing that he has always preferred larger buns -- he weighs in at two pounds -- we tried Ashley, a middle-aged Giant Chinchilla ," ...
A rescue dog stars in a Super Bowl commercial!
PETFINDER BLOG Mon, Feb 6
Plenty of Super Bowl ads featured dogs last night, but our favorite was Bud Light's " Rescue Dog ." The spot features Weego, a real-life adopted dog who fetches Bud Light whenever anyone says, "Here, Weego!" (Or "Here we go.") Even better, Bud Light has pledged to donate $1 to help the adoptable pets at Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation in Walnut Creek, CA, for every new "like" to Bud Light's Facebook page . ...
