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April 2009

Weekly Tweets 2009-04-24

April 24, 2009

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Health Magazine Names America’s Healthiest Pets

April 24, 2009

Dogs Ranked #1 Healthiest For Benefiting Humans’ Happiness and Longevity

(New York, NY) – A wealth of studies suggests that pets are good for your health, sometimes in unexpected ways. The right pet can lower your risk for heart disease, curb stress, and even sniff out illnesses. In fact, the more attached you are to your pet, the stronger its protective health benefits may be. Health magazine asked three

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Treating Dog Allergies This Spring

April 22, 2009

by Dr. Andrew Jones

dog running through yellow flowersDog allergies are one of the most common conditions affecting dogs. Dog allergies can be very frustrating for both yourself and your dog. The constant itching and scratching, paw licking and chewing, skin rashes or chronic ear infections can make life very unpleasant.

Dogs allergies become noticeable when your dog’s immune system reacts excessively

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Get a Free Pledge Fabric Sweeper For Your Shedder

April 18, 2009

Pledge ran a photo contest not too long ago, asking pet owners to Show Off Their Shedder to help promote their new Fabric Sweeper for Pet Hair. Earlier this week, a representative from Pledge emailed to ask if we’d like to give away one of their new Fabric Sweepers to a reader here at PETSblogs.

So we’re reprinting their press release and asking anyone who may be interested

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Weekly Tweets 2009-04-17

April 17, 2009
  • RT @DachshundBlog Sweet young dachshund pup needs to be rescued near Dallas. Please RT and DM for contact info. He’ll be put down on Tue … #

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Toilet Training A Cat

April 14, 2009

Is Your Cat Ready for Toilet Training?
Rebecca Rescate offers up the following 5 ways you can tell…

At the end of a long day, who really wants to sift through a messy litter box? Certainly not me. Up until now, the litter-box has been a necessary evil, a small price to pay for our beloved companions. But not anymore. In fact, there’s an underground alternative designed for those

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A Special Piece of Presidential Pet Adoption History

April 10, 2009

Release of special edition Shepard Fairey ADOPT print will mark historic significance of the presidential dog adoption and help continue to raise awareness for pet adoption nationwide

LOS ANGELES – APRIL 10, 2009 – Adopt-a-Pet.com, North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website, and Artist Shepard Fairey have hope and faith in the Obamas’ commitment to adopting a dog — so much so, that they have already created a special-edition

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My Marley Moment Contest Winners

April 8, 2009

I’m pleased to announce the 2 My Marley Moment winners here on PETSblogs today. Now that everyone has been notified and responded, I’m free to write a bit about the winners and what they’ve won.

THE GRAND PRIZE
Bob and Jeralinn Roche have won a copy of Marley & Me on DVD as well as a year’s subscription to Dog World magazine

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Tonight on Dogtown

April 3, 2009

Two homeless dogs named Haley and Hana are rescued from an underground cave in Ethiopia, where it is believed they survived for more than two months after being dumped there by locals… Hugo, a 100-pound bloodhound, is returned to DogTown after seriously biting a family member… And a golden retriever, Ava, has just arrived with a paw ripped apart by a coyote trap…

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Adopt-a-Pet.com Launches Effort To Save the Lives of Rabbits, Horses, Pigs . . .

April 3, 2009

Non-profit online pet-search service already helping dogs and cats expands focus to include other species in need…

LOS ANGELES – APRIL 2, 2009 – Adopt-a-Pet.com, North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website, today announced the expansion of its pet adoption database to include rabbits, horses, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, farm-type animals and other small pets. This is in addition to the already extensive Adopt-a-Pet.com database of cats and dogs

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Weekly Tweets 2009-04-03

April 3, 2009
  • RT @SnootyPaws Apparently 86,000 people a year end up in the emergency room because they tripped over the family pet. http://bit.ly/4vvpqH #
  • RT @GoFetchGifts: Pls RT: Looking for stories, Mothers Day blog post. Do you share your mom w/ her pets? Does she treat them like your s … #
  • Animal campaigners urge Michael Jackson not to use elephants and

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