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• Greyhound racing is done in Wisconsin

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
    Greyhound racing is nearing the finish line in Wisconsin. Dairyland Greyhound Park, in Kenosha — the last operating track in the state –  announced Tuesday it will close its doors after racing ends Dec. 31. Dairyland was one of five Wisconsin tracks that opened after a 1987 amendment to the state ...
  19 hours ago

• The Pig, The CAFO, & The Flu

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 463
  David Cassuto Excellent piece here regarding the pig CAFO/swine flu link and another one here about the inefficacy of the vaccine approach to prophylaxis.  And yet another interesting piece here about the intelligence and social nature of pigs. In light of these developments, let’s consider the American ...
  19 hours ago

• Dead Cat

  
  Infinite Possibility — Authority: 114
  Earlier tonight my daughter and I went out for a bit; we got home around 9 pm, or four hours ago. Kara just went out to go for a walk and found a dead cat on our walk. Our driveway is about 50 yards long and it’s another 15 feet to the porch; the cat was about 3 feet shy of making the porch. It was a small, charcoal ...
  22 hours ago

• Its dog eat dog round my way

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Beware those so-called rescue dogs from Battersea . . . No one seems quite sure exactly what form the "crackdown" on "weapon dogs" will take. But at least the excitingly explicit nomenclature is catching on. There are a lot of weapon dogs round our way. But no one calls them weapon dogs. Instead they are called ...
  1 day ago

• There Is No Market Solution

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 530
  In an article that attempts to “characterize the current state of the farm animal welfare debate” is some interesting information about public opinion regarding animal agriculture: “Animal rights groups and livestock industries have adopted very different strategies in debating farm animal welfare. Animal ...
  1 day ago

• Leading Health Care Company Funds Rabies Control Projects In India

  
  Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine — Authority: 520
  ---promotion--- Health care company Schering-Plough Corporation today announced it has initiated sponsorship of two projects in India to reduce the incidence of human and animal rabies through improved educational awareness and mass vaccination of dogs. The company will donate $200,000 and rabies vaccine from ...
  1 day ago

• HRH The Princess Royal Opens Educational Facility At Animal Health Trust

  
  Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine — Authority: 520
  A brand new state-of-the-art lecture theatre and conference centre has been opened in Newmarket by HRH The Princess Royal. The facility within the John MacDougall Visitors Centre at the Animal Health Trust (AHT) has been purpose-built to enhance the Trust’s education programme for vets, scientists and people ...
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• Policeman Is Fined For ‘Hanging’ Dog During Training

  
  Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine — Authority: 520
  A policeman was fined £225 for ‘hanging’ a police dog by it’s lead over a 5 foot wall when the dog refused to jump over it. Source: DogMagazine.net - the K9 Magazine blogPoliceman Is Fined ... Source: DogMagazine.net - the K9 Magazine blog Policeman Is Fined For ‘Hanging’ Dog During Training Related ...
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• Rachael Ray to the rescue

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
  One of the benefits of being ostensibly unemployed is access to all the babes (if I might use that term) a guy could ever want. Just watching “The View” alone, one can get one’s fill, and then some, of females of nearly every stripe – liberal, conservative, shrill, sarcastic, blunt, shrill, smart, not so ...
  1 day ago

• Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  Eating Animals , the searing indictment of factory farming that Jonathan Safran Foer spent three years painstakingly researching, has got the champions of cheap chuck circling their wagons and denouncing the celebrated novelist’s latest work as just another piece of fiction. Chuck Jolley, writing for the Cattle ...
  2 days ago

• Mark Twain: Was he our first animal welfare advocate?

  
  Gary Bogue — Authority: 122
  Mark Twain. Photo by Flickr user sfjalar used under a Creative Commons License I just received the following note from my friend Camilla Fox. Check it out: Gary: For all of you literary buffs … “(Reuters) — Leading Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin`s latest research suggests that Twain was the ...
  2 days ago

• Celebrating the unique bond between people and their pets

  
  Scratchings-and-Sniffings — Authority: 126
  And now a word from our Sponsor: Tales for the Pet Lovers Heart ". Nestle Purina and Cincinnati-based Kroger Company (yes, that Kroger ), have partnered to launch their second annual campaign to raise funds for animal welfare by hosting the "Tales for the Pet Lovers Heart." Since Im all about this kind of thing - ...
  2 days ago

• Who’s The Dummy? Weird Dog Dinners And More As Voted By You!

  
  Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine — Authority: 520
  ---promotion--- One look at the X-ray and Lulu’s veterinarian knew this 2-year-old English bulldog’s case was far from usual. The radiograph revealed a large foreign mass in Lulu’s stomach and, upon close inspection, the outline of what appeared to be several pacifiers. Post-surgery, the contents of Lulu’s ...
  2 days ago

• Amber Valletta Joins IFAW Honorary Board Of Directors

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 598
  Actress Amber Valletta is lending a hand to the International Fund For Animal Welfare ( IFAW ),  one of the world’s leading international animal welfare organizations, by becoming a member of its Honorary Board of Directors. Ms. Valletta’s first act? Striking a pose for IFAW’s Tails for Whales campaign ...
  2 days ago

• 20 dogs found buried in Long Island back yard

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
  Long Island authorities are continuing their investigation of a woman in Selden whose back yard contained the buried remains of at least 20 dogs. Sharon McDonough, 43, has been charged with animal cruelty, WCBS-TV reported. “This is one of the worst cases of animal abuse I have seen in the last 25 years I have ...
  2 days ago

• VW Loves Animals, Too! Go Ganley!

  
  Thoughts Fur Paws — Authority: 419
  It’s not often that you hear about a car dealership having an event that benefits animals, or a car dealership whose employees are dedicated to the animal welfare cause. But that’s exactly what Ganley Volkswagen/Subaru of Bedford is, and will be doing this Saturday. They are hosting the second annual “Feed the ...
  3 days ago

• Gadlinks for Monday 11.9.09

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  Filed under: Activism , Learning , Blogs , North America , United States , Ecotourism Its Wild America day here at Gadling, and we should feel grateful to have so many wild things to be crazy about here in America! Well, if nothing else, theres always "Where the Wild Things Are," which could very well be ...
  3 days ago

• Dog Drag Dog

  
  The Dreamin Demon — Authority: 506
  Knoxville, Tennessee – What’s up with all the animal cruelty stories lately? I swear to God I am not looking for them – it just seems as if all the local news outlets have a story about some jackass doing something stupid to an animal. In this case the jackass is 45-year-old Jimmy Lovell (nickname “Dog”) ...
  3 days ago

• Why We Love Cats and Dogs

  
  Land of PureGold Foundation — Authority: 133
  I was thrilled to discover this fabulous Nature film online as I missed its Feb 2009 debut on PBS. Why We Love Cats and Dogs – Pets and the Human-Animal Bond celebrates the fact that we share our lives with 73 million dogs and 90 million cats, their functioning as best friends and oftentimes the [...]
  4 days ago

• Rags to Riches Contest . . . The Story of Dina

  
  Land of PureGold Foundation — Authority: 133
  To thank the wonderful folks who provide intake, fostering, and adopting, I have created a $625 prize-filled Rags to Riches Contest.I want those stories that capture a dog’s ‘rags to wags’ transformation—and am awarding an amazing 1/3 of the entries with prizes! The photo here comes from our most recent, 22nd ...
  5 days ago

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