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Starting today’s blog was a bit of a challenge because no matter how I try to discuss this topic, someone is going to get upset. I can already hear taunts coming from people who believe that I don’t understand how expensive it is to own a pet… Earlier in the week, Drs. Foster and Smith announced that they were working on a plan to increase the number of pets vaccinated. Ok…so far so good. Their plan includes two steps…one is the lowering of prices on all their vaccine ...
Bear with me, readers, I am not 100% sure how I am going to start this without diving into a huge rant about less than accurate information on the Internet. In previous blogs I have discussed the importance of rabies vaccines for our pets. These vaccines have virtually eliminated cases of human rabies in the Western world and reduced domestic animal cases to very low levels. So, when I came across this blog today on an autism website discussing rabies vaccines, my curiosity was ...
This blog posting has probably been a long time in coming, but several news items and other blogs from this weekend have now pushed it to the top. The idea started this past weekend as I was reading KCDogBlog's posting on a proposed ordinance in Worchester, MA to place restrictions on pit bull ownership. In his comments afterward, Brent said something very telling and it bears repeating here: What I never quite get is, if there was a bridge collapse, they would listen to highway ...
Updated 07-26-2010 at 08:05 AM by Tomcat
The continuing economic troubles across many countries generate a slew of sad stories every day. People are just trying to keep their heads above water and it sure seems that when it rains it really pours for some unlucky souls. One such story come out of Calgary this morning. A sixty five year old gentleman was been fined $1000 and banned from owning pets for 5 years after leaving his 10 year old cocker spaniel at the local humane organization. The dog had significant ear infections, ...
Sometimes the sheer folly of people overwhelms me! I have spent more than 20 years working with pets and animals in various different capacities and I have seen A LOT of crazy stuff...but the musings of this disgruntled cat owner from Edmonton really made me laugh (amidst my exasperation of her wacky ideas)! Her letter to the editor of the Edmonton Journal was titled "Cat Free Backyard Unrealistic". Ok...I can believe that. And, I was interested enough to continue reading. ...
