City Refuses To Allow Retiring Police Officer To Keep His K-9 Partner So Community Step In To Help
There are rules in place and all of us have to live by them. Sometimes the rules make sense and they protect us in one way or another. At other times, we wonder why they are a rule in the first place. This came up in an interesting way back in 2016 when a 57-year-old police officer was getting ready to retire. According to NBC News, officer Matthew Hickey had spent 30 years serving the community in Marietta, Ohio on the police force. Photo: GoFundMe After retiring in 2016, he was looking forward to spending his free time with the K-9 officer...
Dog Attempts To Snack On The Dashboard And Puts The Car In Drive
For many families, dogs tend to be homebodies, but for the Shearn family, it was time to take the dog along with them. According to The Dodo, Paul Shearn was headed for his grandparent’s farm along with his family and they had Elvis along with them. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Elvis was with Paul when they went to the store to prepare for the trip. While they were away, the family was going to do some cooking and Paul had some bacon grease ready for seasoning a cast-iron skillet, so he put it in the car. As you can imagine, there...
Internet Community Helps Locate Hundreds of Missing Dogs Each Month… and Has Some Tips
When dogs went missing in the past, relocating them was a bit tougher, since you could only rely on word of mouth, a missing poster here and there, or maybe an ad in a publication. Now, the internet makes it much easier to spread the word, and the members of one online community use the internet to facilitate happy reunions hundreds of times a month. Lost Dogs of King County, located in the Seattle metro area, offers both a Facebook group and a helpful website. Launched by James Branson, founder of lost dog nonprofit Useless Bay Sanctuary,...
Man Stops To Buy A Soda And Ends Up Saving A Dog In The Process
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to rescue a dog before, you realize that it is a two-way street. We may give the dog a good home, plenty of food, and a family but they end up giving us love beyond compare. Nobody knows this better than BJ Nemeth. He is known for traveling around and reporting on poker tournaments throughout the United States with his trusty companion, Brisco. Brisco normally sleeps in the backseat, but when we come to a stop, he thinks it’s time to get out and comes up front. “Are we there yet?”...
Sick Sea Lions Stranded on Oregon Coast Could Impact Health of Dogs, Officials Warn
On Halloween, wildlife officials off Oregon’s coast sent out a warning to dog owners that their pets could be impacted by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a naturally occurring bacteria that can occur sporadically in marine mammals. Unfortunately, the bacteria can also sicken other wildlife — not to mention humans, dogs, and livestock, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife informed the public. They noted that while the risk to humans is slight, dogs have a higher chance of getting the disease. Photo: Pixabay/mcgrout Oregon Sea...
Pet Parent Gets Hit with an $8,000 Vet Bill After Family Weimaraner Gulps Down Rock
A family from Porth in the Rhondda, Wales region of the U.K. were alarmed when their Weimaraner, Milo, started throwing up and bleeding. Naturally, they whisked the stricken animal to the vet to find out what was causing the symptoms. Once they arrived, the veterinarian asked if he had possibly eaten anything he shouldn’t have. One of his owners, Shannon Stone, noted that the four-year-old occasionally chewed on socks, but hadn’t seen him eating anything out of the ordinary recently. Emergency Vet Clinics The vet soon did a scan...
Dug Up at Dogster: November 2022 Dog Events and Dog Holidays
November is packed with howl-worthy events, including the National Dog Show, which airs on Thanksgiving Day. Show us how you and your #dogsterdogs are enjoying your Thanksgiving by tagging us in your photos on social media. Don’t see your dog event on the list? Email us at dogstermag@belvoir.com and we will include your dog event. The National Dog Show, presented by Purina, airs on Thanksgiving Day. Month-long dog holidays, November 2022 Senior Pet Adoption month Pet Awareness month Pet Cancer Awareness month Pet Diabetes month Weekly...
The Easiest Way to Manage a Dog’s Sensitive Tummy!
Food is the most common source of sensitive stomachs for dogs. Even if you don’t know exactly what’s triggering your pup’s discomfort, Tilted Barn Pet Co. food could be the solution! They use single-source proteins and simple ingredients for their fully cooked food recipes, so they’re easy on tummies. Seeing your four-legged bestie in pain and discomfort is devastating, especially when their suffering happens because of something they’re eating. The easiest way to help a pup with a sensitive tummy is to feed them...
Best Dog Toys for Your Dog’s Personality
Quite simply, the best toy for your dog is the one your dog likes best. But getting to that point does require you to candidly assess your canine’s personality. Toys for dogs put the capital D in diverse in terms of price, size, durability and purpose. But there is no need to feel a case of canine confusion. Dogster reached out to a few pet experts who readily unleashed some great advice in choosing the most appropriate type of toys for your dog’s unique attitude. Matching dog toys to dog personalities Dogs, like people, display...
Maddie’s Insights: Takeaways from pandemic-era emergency pet fostering
Join Dr. Lisa Gunter, PhD, CBCC-KA, Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University on Thursday, November 3rd at 12:00PM PT/3:00PM ET for a Maddie’s® Insights webcast on foster recruitment, trial adoption programs, caregiving practices, and behavioral support that can be utilized in our post-pandemic world. “Emergency fostering during the pandemic; Takeaways for a post-pandemic world,” will run for 60 minutes. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization deemed the coronavirus outbreak a worldwide pandemic, and...
