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I filled out a survey about pet loss. The "pet" was supposed to have died in the past year. I fudged it a lot - because my last pet died seven years ago, but I can conjure up those feelings in a nanosecond. I can feel them now like I felt them the day my parents called me, telling me Juju had died in my dad's arms. There's this special place of ( Read more... )

I finally gathered my courage to watch Pedigree Dogs Exposed, the documentary that caused BBC to pull airing Crufts this year. You can watch here.

Watching these breeders defend inbreeding, eugenics and physical deformities as "good" and "true to standard" made me sick to my stomach.

All I can see now when I look at my favorite smosh-faced breeds - ( Read more... )

I noticed some sheep yesterday and planned on stopping by today to take some pictures because ZOMG! lambs! I'm a little bummed because I arrived right after they sheared the ewes and so they all look like crap, heh.

But, there was a gorgeous border collie working the sheep and I asked if I could take some pictures. This dog was in heaven. Celeste ( Read more... )

The chihuahua puppy who lives upstairs is crying and crying and making me very sad.

She's making Celeste pissed off. Mina's focused on me potentially dropping a part of my bread salad. Not likely.

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I've been saying this for years: Most dogs don't bite and when they do it's generally not severe. Dog bites are just not a statistically significant safety hazard.

Well, now there's some statistical evidence supporting this claim. The Coalition for Living Safely with Dogs has produced data from a year-long survey on dog bites in Colorado. I've been ( Read more... )

PHILADELPHIA -- In a new, year-long University of Pennsylvania survey of dog owners who use confrontational or aversive methods to train aggressive pets, veterinary researchers have found that most of these animals will continue to be aggressive unless training techniques are modified.

The study, published in the current issue of Applied Animal ( Read more... )

Why do nearly half of North American wolves have black coats while European wolves are overwhelmingly gray or white? The surprising answer, according to teams of biologists and molecular geneticists from Stanford University, UCLA, Sweden, Canada and Italy, is that the black coats are the result of historical matings between black dogs and wild gray ( Read more... )

I was previously of the belief that few dogs had mastered the art of Emo quite like Miss Mina. That is, until I met Johnny Sue who's face seems to be stuck in a state of perpetual woe. Near the end of our visit as L and I were sitting on the ground; me taking pictures, L observing the dog park happenings, Johnny Sue was leaving. And when she saw us ( Read more... )