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Apptitude: Manage Fido with guidance from apps |
Apps for a pet? You bet. Smartphone applications will help you choose the right sort, find one for you to buy, and then coach you on feeding and training.
What kind of dog would suit your lifestyle? Try Perfect Dog: Ultimate Breed... |
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Disabled animals helped by prosthetic veterans |
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - In many ways, Bruiser is a typical dog. He likes to play in the yard, lounge on the couch and lie on the bed.
But as a result of a genetic condition that has affected his shoulders and elbows, the American bulldog has... |
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Illness prompts quarantine of Georgia animal shelter |
SAVANNAH, Ga. - State officials have approved cat and dog adoptions at an animal shelter although it was quarantined following an outbreak of upper respiratory illnesses.
Savannah-Chatham County police spokesman Julian... |
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Dog survives nearly a month in impounded car |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City animal shelter is caring for a puppy that authorities say survived in a locked car that was impounded for nearly a month in a city lot.
The 12-week-old puppy, which has been named Kia, apparently... |
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Commentary: No, I do not want to pet your dog |
PALO ALTO, Calif. - The other day I walked into my gym and saw a dog. A half-dozen people were crowding around him, cooing and petting. He was a big dog, a lean and muscular Doberman with, I later learned, the sort of hair-trigger bark... |
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Illinois Senate approves 'puppy lemon law' bill |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate has approved a measure that would protect consumers who buy a dog or cat at a pet store and then find out that the animal is seriously ill.
Lawmakers voted 31-18 May 1 to send to the Illinois... |
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5 ways to cut that doggone pet food tab |
NEW YORK - Pet food isn't cheap.
Consumers are expected to spend $21.3 billion on pet food this year, up 3 percent from $20.6 billion in 2012, according to the American Pet Products Association.
Walk through any pet... |
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Sky's the limit at disc dog championships in Muhlenberg |
| Canines will fly through the air for the honor of top disc dog this weekend during the 2013 Skyhoundz Discdogathon World Qualifier and State Championship, taking place Saturday and Sunday, respectively, at Jim Dietrich Park in... |
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Missouri man gets probation for killing girlfriend's dog |
PEORIA, Ill. - A Missouri man who killed his girlfriend's pet Chihuahua by throwing it against a wall has been sentenced to probation at his trial in central Illinois.
Forty-one-year-old Allen Thompson, of Farmington, Mo.,... |
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Travelers give Hawaii dogs second chance on mainland |
The lanky, charcoal-gray dog with a distinctive, wiry hairdo would stand out in most other animal shelters, but no one gave him a second look on Hawaii's island of Kauai.
But thanks to a tourist willing to take him across the... |
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Pocono area vet faces animal cruelty charges |
A Middle Smithfield Township veterinarian is being tried on multiple counts of not controlling, supervising or keeping safe dogs in his care.
Clair "Doc PAWSitive" Thompson, owner of Pocono Animal Wellness Services on Route... |
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Dog eat dog: It could happen with your pet food |
| If the package of dog food that you regularly purchase for your dog had a picture of a dead dog on the front accompanied by the words, "Fortified with 100 percent natural dog meat!" would you still buy it? Probably not. And yet this might very... |
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