Archive for June, 2009
PETA ‘s attract-and-repel “trainwreck” antics have struck again. Or have they?
“Flygate” officially broke last week, and since then I’ve been watching PETA’s reaction to the media’s insect circus with a mixture of fascination and awe. But it appears it was the press sneakily stirring the pot…
PETA ‘s attract-and-repel “trainwreck” antics have struck again. Or have they?
“Flygate” officially broke last week, and since then I’ve been watching PETA’s reaction to the media’s insect circus with a mixture of fascination and awe. But it appears it was the press sneakily stirring the pot…
With airlines continuing to raise their prices for pet-toting travelers, Petfinder.com has announced the five most pet-friendly airlines of 2009. Here they are in descending order:
5. United Airlines – United Airlines loves animals of all kinds. They accept small cats, dogs and birds in…
Beginning July 1, people living in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will be forced to play favorites with their pets.
A newly minted “one-dog” policy will put families in the impossible position of choosing between their best friends.
As of next month, each Guangzhou household…
Many a dog parent will happily call their mutt “Max” and think it’s marvelous, but more “elite namers” might sniff at a label so mundane. And while “Peaches” is potentially purrfect for countless litters of kitties, you could very well be the type who finds it prohibitively prosaic.
More than…
Four year-old Daniel Blair of Northolt, Middlesex, England, decided to give his one-week old puppy a bath after a muddy excursion in the garden. The problem is that Daniel washed the puppy in the toilet, and then flushed. The hapless pooch vanished down the pipe.
The boy’s mother, Allison Blair, 40, called the fire department. The fire department called in the expert, Will Craig, 22, of the plumbing company Dyno-Rod. Using a special camera, Mr. Craig located the tiny dog in the pipe, about 20 feet from the house. Mr. Craig was able to push the puppy to a spot in the pipe where a firefighter was able to pull him out.
The puppy survived the four-hour ordeal and has been named “Dyno” in honor of the company that came to the rescue. No doubt Dyno needed another bath….
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Flushed puppy freed from pipes [UPI.com; June 16, 2009]
Jennifer Fearing, the chief economist for the Humane Society of the United States, recently posed this question to Chronicle readers:
Would you spare a penny to save a pet?
Or if a penny seems too generous, how about one-10th of a penny? According to Fearing, that’s the basic math behind…
On Saturday, more than 50 dogs and two brave cats (and their people) made pilgrimages to St. Francis for the annual pet blessing — a highlight of the North Beach Festival.
An article from Sunday’s Chronicle paints a colorful picture of the scene:
Clad in flowing golden robes, Deacon…
Thanks to Adopt-a-Pet.com’s new “Social PETworking” campaign, saving a pet’s life is only a few clicks away.
Social PETworking empowers anyone who cares about companion animals, including people who are not currently in a position to adopt, to help pair families with homeless pets. The…
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh has an Abyssinian cat named Punkin. His girlfriend recently got an Old English Sheepdog puppy named Abbey. Punkin and Abbey have met, and are getting along well together. As Mr. Limbaugh explained on his radio show on Monday, “The dog’s been over to the house. You ought to see the dog and Punkin. We thought there was going to be some fur flying here, but there wasn’t. There was just genuine curiosity. Punkin hissed a couple times. It’s a puppy bounding around. You know, Punkin looks at the dog like, ‘Shut up, you little kid. Stop bothering me.’
“You know, cats are very indifferent. But no. No territorial battles or anything. The dog is even eating some of Punkin’s food, and Punkin doesn’t care. No, I’m not baby-sitting the dog. I wouldn’t mind if I baby-sat the dog. It’s a cute little thing.”
Mr. Limbaugh’s love for his cat Punkin inspired him to record this anti-dogfighting public service announcement for the Humane Society of the United States:
