Dog Care Citations Plummet In Boulder – Denver Channel
The city has written a third fewer tickets for improper pet care this year than it did in 2007. The drop comes after officials decided to stress dog care education, not tickets
The Fixer’s Good Guys: Part II – Chicago Sun-Times
In the spirit of the season, The Fixer continues our little break from the usual consumer horror stories with Part Two of “The Fixer’s Good Guys.” After another year of rip-offs
READERS WRITE – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Unable to find jobs in our bad economy, many would-be illegal aliens are choosing to stay home and some already here have returned to their country. This is not to say that we are
A one-word explanation? Try greed – Atlanta Journal Constitution
The secret to capitalism s success is its ability to take one of mankind s most powerful emotions greed and harness that emotion to drive economic progress. By greedily
Sharing the Joy of Fur-kids during the Holiday Season – Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
This year I am celebrating my fifth holiday season with my fur-kids. And even as we look ahead to celebrating the 2009 holiday season as our first with our daughter (whose arrival
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Flying Porter – Toronto Sun
Thiele discusses Toronto Party Firefighters help terminally- ill mother Firefighters donate to Variety Village Feist presents band grant A first in transplantation Calling all
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10 tales from the wild side (and one from the future) – Globe and Mail
Pets deserve year-end lists too, so here are the top animal stories of the year plus a prediction for the biggest story of 2009. Read the full article Please let us know if
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Death With Interruptions – Georgia Straight
The Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate Jos Saramago writes mysteries not of murder or other kinds of crime, but of logic. He takes the recognizable, everyday world and
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Down to the last day – Toronto Sun
Oakville fire devastates neighbours Flying Porter Thiele discusses Toronto Party Firefighters help terminally- ill mother Firefighters donate to Variety Village Feist presents band
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Cars no longer cool in Japan – Globe and Mail
TOKYO To get around the city, Yutaka Makino hops on his skateboard or rides commuter trains. Does he dream of the day when he has his own car? Not a chance. Like many Japanese
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Shelter pulls out the stops – Edmonton Sun
An unusually high number of stray cats and rabbits has prompted the Edmonton Humane Society to hold its own Boxing Day blowout sale this year. “We have to do something to try to
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Whistler Olympic Park offers a Nordic preview – Georgia Straight
On a pre-Christmas day when ferocious Arctic outflow winds whipped clouds of snow from Powder Mountain s summit, barely a breath of air blew through Whistler Olympic/Paralympic
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‘The Pet Hui,’ a TV show just for Island pet lovers – Honolulu Advertiser
There’s a new friendly pet show on OC 16 called “The Pet Hui.” It runs every other Monday at 6 p.m., Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. Check the schedule for other
Pantry will help feed Fido – Buffalo News
The sagging economy is placing a burden not just on people, but on pets. In a sign of the recessionary times, a pet food pantry is being started in Buffalo to help low-income
The Best Pet Products of 2008 – ABC News
Today, Becker appeared on “GMA” to reveal his picks for the best pet products of 2008 — the breakthroughs in the care, feeding and cleaning up after your pets. “I read all the vet
Pets in peril – Beaver County Times
America s economic crisis has trickled down to pets, whose owners are dumping them off at shelters because they can t afford the cost of feed and veterinary care, animal
Fashion goes to the dogs – Financial Times
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas, as the slogan goes. And, if recent trends in the pet industry are anything to go by, it seems more people are viewing this as a treat
How to get kids to help around the house – Cape Cod Times
Children today spend less time on housework than they did 20 years ago, according to Sandra Hofferth, director of the University of Maryland s Population Research Center, who has
Dog Care Citations Plummet In Boulder – Denver Channel
The city has written a third fewer tickets for improper pet care this year than it did in 2007. The drop comes after officials decided to stress dog care education, not tickets
Proposed sales tax on pet care causes concern – Riverside Press Enterprise
Dr. Marshall Scott already has seen pet owners become less willing to spend money on costly procedures with the recent economic downturn. He fears a state proposal to levy a sales
Pets and the slump – Corvallis Gazette-Times
One look at the holiday season tells the director of the SafeHaven Humane Society all she needs to know about the economy. Donations at the shelter have declined in November and
A year of jobs, but forget the juggling – Daily Local News
No comments posted. It is the time of year when I look back on 12 months of Put Gretchen to Work columns, see what I can add to my resume, what should be left off. I started the
Part 2: Maximizing Merchandising for Traffic Flow, “Hot Zones” and – Retail Wire
In Part 1 of this series on Creating Your Most Effective Pet Aisle , we saw a view of Pet as a “category of categories,” considering such ratio principles as wet-to-dry, dog-to-cat
Business Briefs: Pet DRx offered $8M for practices – Nashville Tennessean
A competitor of Pet DRx Corp. said it has offered to buy eight veterinary practices that the Brentwood-based company owns in California’s Coachella Valley. Preferred Pet Care Inc
This Holiday Season Mars Canada Inc. Urges Animal Lovers To Support – CNW Group
Mars Canada Inc. will be donating $10,000 to the Humane Society of Durham Region >> TORONTO, Dec. 19 /CNW/ – As part of their on-going dedication to partner shelters, Mars Canada
Mayor Gregor Robertson on how you can help the homeless – Georgia Straight
Early this morning, a homeless woman known on our streets as Tracey, died tragically, trying to stay warm during a freezing night in Vancouver. Tracey s death is exactly what we
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Keeping drug users healthier – Toronto Star
T he Toronto Harm Reduction Coalition had its annual general meeting recently; uppermost on the agenda was the election of four new directors. Harm reduction? I don’t have the
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Practical presents preserve pets’ dignity – Toronto Star
Face it: No pet craves a set of fake antlers, a Santa outfit or a garish collar with jingle bells. Yet gazillions of households will nevertheless subject Fluffy, Fido and friends
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New homeless shelter to open after woman dies on the streets – Georgia Straight
The City of Vancouver will open tomorrow (December 20) a shelter at 1435 Granville Street that will allow people with shopping carts and pets. But the move comes too late for a
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Pet lovers protest cats as food – Owen Sound Sun Times
While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province — where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup — just
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Two baboons die at Moncton zoo – Globe and Mail
Brian W from Toronto, Canada writes: Okay I’ve moved on . from distressed to down-right mad -not that I can do anything about it now, but come one this shouldn’t have happened
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Stay-at-home job – Toronto Sun
A look at World Hypnotism Day Flying Porter Down to the last day Oakville fire devastates neighbours Thiele discusses Toronto Party Firefighters help terminally- ill mother
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Puerto Rico deals with serious monkey business – CNEWS
A Rhesus macaque grimaces as he hangs from a fence. Puerto Rico is planning to cull an overpopulation of rhesus and patas monkeys that has overrun parts of the island. (AP Photo
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Ideas abound as governor race draws down – Nation – Thailand
Yuranan, who contested the Bangkok gubernatorial race under the Pheu Thai Party, said Bangkok on a daily basis produced 10,000 tonnes of garbage, 30 per cent of which could be
Cheney articulates chilling truths – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Let history note that Dick Cheney smuggled a bit of truth into a very large package of lies last week. And believe me, history will indeed take note. Cheney articulates chilling
Life-and-death questions dog health-care debate – Atlanta Journal Constitution
He s just a dog, you tell yourself. Yet somehow, that utterly rational thought doesn t fend off the choking sensation in your throat as the vet delivers the news. Life-and
Having pets may help college students handle stressful situations – Newstrack India
Washington, December 24 (ANI): Having a pet may make it a bit easy for college students to handle stressful situations, according to a study. While previous studies have already
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Xmas scraps bad for pets? – Beeld
Cape Town – Treating cats and dogs to rich tidbits from the Christmas table can harm their health and emotional well-being, the Pet Food Industry Association of South Africa (PFI
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Stop trade in pets’ lives pleads Joan – Ilford Recorder
A KIND-HEARTED cat lover has made a festive plea for people to stop abandoning their animals. She also asks anyone getting a pet to get it from a rescue shelter, not a shop, and
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Police take 43 pets from couple’s home – NW Arkansas Times
Police wearing protective suits seized 19 dogs, 23 cats and one bird from a couple’s one-bedroom house in tiny Pangburn, and the tenants’ landlord plans to have the home condemned
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Oxygen masks for gives pets a fighting chance – Lucknow Sentinel
Helping pets is always near and dear to the hearts of many people; it was also in the heart of Ken Bridge of the Ripley-Huron Veterinary Clinic who donated pet oxygen masks to the
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