Westminster Dog Show Backstage and Up Close

February 13, 2013

The Westminster Dog Show celebrated 187 breeds and hosted some 3,000 dogs attending the 137th annual all breed show in New York. If you had a chance to watch the hours-long show over the past two-days, you know how engaged and enthusiastic the crowd is. To underscore that point, an announcer in last night’s round [...]

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Dog Fighting Crime Museum Exhibit

February 9, 2013

“We want the public to see that dogs used in dog fighting are the victims of the crime as well as individuals, not as instruments of the crime,” Dr. Randall Lockwood senior vice president of the ASPCA Forensic Sciences and Anti-Cruelty Projects said, referencing “Dog Fighting: The Voiceless Victims” the ASPCA exhibit at the Washington, [...]

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Animal Testing of Cosmetics Banned in EU – Where is US?

February 7, 2013

Animal testing of cosmetics is a horrific practice, one that the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments has been fighting to ban for 23 years. That there was a change of hands in the office of the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy is key to this hard-won success. The former Commissioner was considering [...]

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Puppy Bowl IX on Animal Planet!

February 2, 2013

Puppy Bowl IX on Animal Planet is back and ready to dazzle viewers with all the action on and off the playing field! Tailgate parties, hamsters in a blimp and instant playbacks, hedgehog cheerleaders (gotta see that!) and play-by-play announcers and analysts check out the moves of adoptable puppies from shelters across the country. Human [...]

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Animal Shelters A Front For Puppy Mills?

January 30, 2013

What happens when animal shelters turn to breeding puppies to support their shelters? Given that this concept goes against shelter ethics, were they really ever a shelter? This question, and more, arose when Mel Freer (No Dog About It) wrote about an online site a friend thought might be of interest to her. Was this [...]

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Chicken Jerky Reports Wanted, Veterinary Information Network

January 28, 2013

Chicken jerky reports of illness and deaths have been reported to the FDA since 2007. The Veterinary Information Network, an online community comprised of 50,000 vets internationally, has put together a toxicology and pathology team to help find what has killed more than 500 pets of the more than 2500 incident reports made. Answers have [...]

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Chicken Jerky Recall & Pig Skin Twists By Hartz And A Note

January 27, 2013

The following press release on another chicken jerky recall came out Friday: “SECAUCUS, N.J., Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Hartz Mountain Corporation is voluntarily withdrawing its Hartz ® Chicken Chews™ and Hartz ® Oinkies® Pig Skin Twists wrapped with Chicken for dogs in the United States because they contain trace amounts of unapproved antibiotic residue. We are taking [...]

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