Gail Heller is the Founder of Chance’s Spot, a nonprofit organization exclusive in its focus on pet loss and grief and compassion fatigue: the stress resulting from repeated exposure to injured and abused animals.
She wrote to tell us about an event called Honoring the Animals Candlelight Vigil which will be taking place at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on September 13, 2009, in Louisville, Kentucky. If you’re
by Jeff Nenadic
To refer to the Labrador Retriever as an extraordinary breed would be nothing short of an understatement. Characteristically, being in tune with their masters is a requirement of their personalities so it is important that the owner understand what the animal was bred to do namely hunt and retrieve. In order for a Labrador to find birds or ducks that were shot down
by Geoffrey English
Is your dog scratching his ears obsessively? Does he shake his head and whine? He might have ear mites. Ear mites are a parasitic little bug that live their whole lives on your dog. They consume blood, skin and earwax. Whey they are ready, the female will lay three eggs in your dog’s ear wax daily. Within 3 weeks, the nymphs are mature and ready to
by Jeff Nenadic
Oftentimes considered the most intelligent of all breeds of dogs, the Border Collie originated in the English and Scottish border country, and is an excellent sheep herding dog. They were plentiful in numbers in England and Scotland during the 1800’s when they were used as fetching dogs in order to circle sheep herds and keep the animals close to the shepard. By 1873, sheepdogs known as
Six genetically identical puppies began work for South Korea’s customs agency, sniffing out drugs. They all share the same name, TOPPY (tomorrow & puppy combined) because they were all cloned from the same superb sniffer dog named Chase (a Labrador Retriever in Canada).
The dogs went through an 16-month training program and are now hard at work sniffing out drugs at Seoul’s Incheon International airport and at border
Filthy conditions, failure to correct violations prompted action at Kentucky facility. At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. marshals today seized livestock and horse feeds stored under filthy…
by Jeff Nenadic
Here’s a scenario for you to think about. Your child is out in the back yard, running about with your 1 year old dog, when unexpectedly, you hear that dog yelp in pain. Wasting no time, you head out the door and observe that the dog appears to have an injured hind leg, holding it aloft as it trots along on the other three. As if