Current Dog News, Tips and Information for You and Your Canine Companion
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- Introducing For the Love of the Dog Forum
Yup, finally got around to setting up a forum and I hope you all take the time to register and join in. It’s pretty empty now so I need lots of help
There’s room for pretty much everyone and everything and if not, there’s also a place to make suggestions.
There’s even a special [...]
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:59:16 +0000
- Thunderstorm Anxiety and Your Dog - Is There Help?
Many dogs absolutely freak over thunderstorms; they shake and tremble, whine, run, tear up their surroundings and even more in excessive cases. We try to comfort our canine companions, often hoping that cuddling them will offer the same comfort and ease their stress as it does for us. Unfortunately this really doesn’t help [...]
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:16:42 +0000
- Ohio to Get Tough on Aminal Abuse!
Day after day I write about the horror stories, the neglects and abuses that man inflicts on animals and our canine companions. Sometime I think that people are just getting worse and things will never get better. Judges sentence animal abusers with ’slap on the wrist’ sentences again and again, most abusers are [...]
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:25:39 +0000
- Important Product Alert - ProMeris
I just received this product alert and wanted to pass the info along ASAP. It was sent to me by a trusted friend and vet. This happened to a friend of hers. The vet said one of the most surprising things is that Fort Dodge is actually paying the med bills without [...]
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:25:40 +0000
- A Dumped Dog’s Prayer
Don’t close the door! Don’t push me away.Why are you leaving?
Don’t make me stay.
Slow down the car, I can’t keep up.
This pavement is hot and my pads are cut.
I’ve got to quit running or my heart will pop.
Every muscle is aching.
Why don’t you stop?
I’m so hungry and thirsty. Darkness is near.
But I shouldn’t leave, [...]
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:51:28 +0000
- Help Get Justice for Rocky - Severely Neglected Dog - Hearing Apr. 17
This story is about the terrible neglect that a dog suffered that almost killed him! but for the continual pressure and calls from neighbors, he would be dead. Not only is the owner’s neglect beyond shameful, what is also shameful is the fact that it took as long at it did for animal control [...]
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:24:06 +0000
- Dognapping on the Rise - Protect Your Pets! VIDEO
Lately, if you watch the news, you will have noticed an increasing rash in the number of stolen dogs; from pets stores, shelters, vehicles, people’s homes and even off the street when someone may leave their dog unattended. The largest majority are smaller, purebred dogs because they have turned into a commodity. They’re [...]
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:57:37 +0000
- Another Sad Face of Animal Abuse - “Dog Suffered Everyday of its Life”
This little dog, barely recognizable as such, is a 2 year old terrier mix. Unlike the ‘face of abuse’ I introduced you to yesterday, Lucky, this poor baby’s story doesn’t have a happy ending, unless you count a release from life happy.
This little guy is one of 120 dogs seized in an Australia [...]
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:29:06 +0000
- Teen Gets Probation for Killing Dog in Washing Machine
Here’s yet another ’slap on the wrist’ sentence for the unconscionable and cruel killing of a dog by a teenager! Last March, an 18 year old of the 200 block of Fourth Street, East Conemaugh, PA, Klynn M. Cvejkus, entered an unoccupied house and for some sick and twisted reason stuffed a little terrier [...]
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:06:56 +0000
- Princess, Dead Dog Walking
Up to now it’s obvious that there’s been no ‘royal’ treatment for Princess in her life. Found starved near to death, locked in a kennel, weighing only 75 lbs, half what she should weigh, Princess more closely resembles a concentration camp victim.
In this heart breaking story out of Knoxville, a neighbor called Knox [...]
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:31:59 +0000
- Dogs - The Injustice of Being Prisonsers for Life
Often I’ve written about chained dogs and the sad, lonely lives of neglect they face. Their 24/7/365 isolation often coupled with lack of shelter, food and water because they have been forgotten. Most recently I did Another Argument Against Chained Dogs.
I came across a column written about chained dogs that I want to [...]
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:00:41 +0000
- No Justice for ‘Jane Dog’ - 5 Young Abusers Get ‘Slap on the Wrist’ - VIDEO
In a crime that literally galvanized the world, 5 young boys, aged 9-14, poured gas on a dog and set it on fire, leaving it to die a cruel and painful death.
Although this horrendous and senseless crime took place in Nashville, TN, pleas came from all over the world, begging that these boys would [...]
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:16 +0000
- Just One of the Many Sad Faces of Animal Abuse
Meet Lucky, doesn’t look so lucky does he, but actually he is one of the lucky ones and so he has been named.
Th is little three month old puppy was badly burned by either chemicals or fire then dumped in a box and abandoned on the side of the road to die a miserable, [...]
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:07:28 +0000
- Just How Smart Is Your Dog Really? Doggie IQ Test
I think most people who share their homes and lives with dogs tend to think their dogs are pretty smart. We know dogs sometimes do amazing things, rescuing people, working as companion and service dogs but how smart are they really?
Now we know that some breeds tend to be categorized as smarter than others [...]
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:06:50 +0000
- Plants - Poisonous and Toxic to Our Pets - VIDEO
I’ve done numerous articles and posts on different things that are poisonous and toxic to our pets; plants, household substances, even trash, as well as other things, not so common, that you might not know about; xylitol, cocoa bean mulch and other substances which are more well know problems such as chocolate. As pet [...]
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:10:54 +0000