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Baby, Winner of the HSUS Dog of Valor Award

Chance Googling — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:55:45 +0000

Baby with her award

Baby, a five-year-old great dane from Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the Humane Society’s second-annual Dog of Valor. When Baby’s owner Elwood Cardon, 82, drove off the road, Baby kept him warm and then went for help. Dood dog, baby!

The Dog’s Guide to Surfing

Chance Googling — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:35:46 +0000

Nose to the nose!

Talk about a small publishing niche. Here’s an online community of surfers with their own guide book. Check it out.

Canine Couture

Chance Googling — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:30:56 +0000

In case you’re wondering whether dog fashion has gone over the top: Yes, dog fashion has gone over the top. Here are a few of the prime innovators (or offenders) of late:

Add any others as comments. . .

More Pit Bull Debates

Chance Googling — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:26:05 +0000

Reporters never get tired of this storyline and people never tire of arguing over it. Are pit bulls the problem or are their owners? Animal Planet launches a new series called Pit Bulls & Parolees. Newsweek reports.

Bo’s First Misplaced Deuce

Chance Googling — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:17:47 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reported today that Bo Obama left the Pres a little present in the aisle on Air Force One. Enjoy.

World’s Oldest Dog Dies

Chance Googling — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:19:38 +0000

Her name was Chanel. She was 21, or 147 in dog years. AP story, here.

Why Positive Reinforcement Works

Chance Googling — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:57:20 +0000

A new study out from MIT suggests that brain cells can only learn from success and not failure. This might help to explain why dogs are capable of learning complex problem-solving from positive reinforcement drills, but not through avoidance.

Airlines Gouge Pet Owners

Chance Googling — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:55:06 +0000

From the New York Times, here.

IT’S getting more expensive to take Fifi on vacation. Airlines may be raising the price of in-flight food and checked luggage, but pet owners say the fees for flying with their furry friends are getting out of control.

A number of airlines — including Alaska, American, JetBlue, US Airways and Virgin America — raised their pet fees by about $20 or more in the last year or so, and now charge $100 each way to take a pet on a flight. Continental, Midwest and United now charge $125 to bring a pet onboard, up from $100 previously.

Expect to pay even more to check in larger pets as luggage. Those fees now range from $300 round trip on American to $500 on United. It goes even higher for international flights.

Dogs Show Each Other Where to Find Food

Chance Googling — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:54:15 +0000

Found this on New Scientist, this morning. Dogs apparently sniff each other to see who’s been eating lately and then figure out where the food is based on where that dog has just been. Pretty clever.

Diabetic Alert Dog Conference at Wildrose

Chance Googling — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:03:12 +0000

Type 1 diabetics live with the knowledge that some night in the future they could drop into a diabetic coma, no one would know, and they could die alone in their sleep. Can a dog prevent this from happening? Can a dog warn a diabetic when his or her blood sugar is dropping into the danger zone or going too high? The simple answer is yes.

More on Wildrose’s diabetic alert dog conference here and here.