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The Bond We Have With Service Dogs is Amazing

The Bond We Have With Service Dogs is Amazing

by McCall Hoyle

  September is National Service Dog Awareness Month, which makes it the perfect time to reflect on the dogs that have improved our world and our lives and to give specific thanks to the extraordinary dogs that devote their lives to serving humans with a wide variety of physical, emotional, and medical needs.

Emily Dickinson once said, “Dogs are better than humans because they…

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Dogs, Cats and Scapegoats Movie Shines Light on the Plight of Companion Animals

Dogs, Cats and Scapegoats Movie Shines Light on the Plight of Companion Animals

  MESA, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Sandgrain Films has thrown down the gauntlet in the new groundbreaking documentary Dogs, Cats and Scapegoats, which takes a unique approach to expose the root causes of the plight of our companion animals in the United States. Beyond the statistics of euthanasia and adoption, society’s complex and sometimes conflicted relationship with animals…

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Home-to-Home Adoption: New Online Community Connects People Who Want to Adopt a Pet with People in Need of Rehoming Their Pet

Home-to-Home Adoption: New Online Community Connects People Who Want to Adopt a Pet with People in Need of Rehoming Their Pet

  PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — getyourpet.com, a revolutionary pet adoption site that helps lovable pets go directly from one good home to another rather than to a shelter, is now available across the U.S.  The site offers a simpler, smarter and more humane approach to pet adoption, enabling people in need of rehoming a dog or cat to connect directly with people who want to adopt.

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Bumblesnot-A Gentle King of His Castle Who Steals Our Hearts

Bumblesnot-A Gentle King of His Castle Who Steals Our Hearts

By Buster Boy

  Hello my pups, Buster Boy here with another interview with a new friend- Bumblesnot.

  Tell us about your home and your human. It looks like you have trained him pretty well. Does he give you plenty of bacon?

I live with The Tall Man (my human dad) and The Dark Haired Lady (my human mom), as well as The Little Girl (my human sister). I also have two human older brothers… The…

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Podcast-Special-Over 500 dogs and Cats in emergency Houston shelter getting help

Podcast-Special-Over 500 dogs and Cats in emergency Houston shelter getting help

In this special report we speak to Wellpet Foundation volunteer Carly White who is at a convention center in Houston with Best Friends Animal Society who is coordinating this massive shelter for displaced dogs and cats. Recorded earlier today. It is an incredible effort to save these animals and reunite then with their families. Carly shares with us how this monumental task is being achieved…

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How to Keep a Boston Terrier Entertained

How to Keep a Boston Terrier Entertained

  by Bryn Nowell

  Boston Terriers are curious creatures.  While they’re tiny, they pack a punch.  They are full of energy, comedy, and a goofy attitude.  Both Bean and Yoda, our two Boston Terriers, are prone to evening “zoomies,” where they zip around the room, and hop from couch to couch with complete glee and total disregard for anything fragile.  After their evening romping, they will play…

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Is your pet at risk for parasites?

Is your pet at risk for parasites?

  GUELPH, ON, Sept. 14, 2017 /CNW/ – The term “worms” is often used to describe gastrointestinal parasites (parasites that affect the digestive system) in our dogs and cats. Even though some gastrointestinal parasites are in fact “worms”, there are other gastrointestinal parasites that put our pets at risk that are not worms at all!

  How do you know if your dog or cat is at risk for…

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Podcast: Tuna Melts My Heart and Puppy Pagents

Podcast: Tuna Melts My Heart and Puppy Pagents

tuna melts my heart

Tuna is an Instagram superstar with over 1.9 million followers. Courtney Dash joins us to share what life with a diva dog is like!  Would you engter your dog in a fluffy butt contest? We will talk to the creator of Puppy Pagents.  If you are a dog lover you will enjoy this podcast, and Tuna will melt your heart.

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How to Live With Both A Cat and A Dog

How to Live With Both A Cat and A Dog

  A​ ​playful​ ​cat​ ​or​ ​a​ ​cute​ ​dog,​ ​which​ ​one​ ​should​ ​you​ ​keep?​ ​You​ ​love​ ​both​ ​pets​ ​and​ ​you​ ​would like​ ​to​ ​have​ ​them​ ​in​ ​your​ ​house.​ ​However,​ ​you​ ​are​ ​not​ ​sure​ ​if​ ​they​ ​will​ ​coexist​ ​under​ ​one​ ​roof or​ ​your​ ​house​ ​will​ ​be​ ​turned​ ​into​ ​a​ ​major​ ​battlefield.​ ​The​ ​stereotypes​ ​about​ ​the​ ​two​ ​pets make​ ​the​…

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What CBD may do for your dog or cat

What CBD may do for your dog or cat

by M.K. Clinton

  Have you joined the movement to treat your pet with CBDs? Cannabinoids are a natural way to help your dog or cat with what ails them. There is no worry about them becoming high or stoned because the amount of THC is minimal. I am a huge fan of Treatibles®for my dogs. CBDs have been shown to be harmless even when taken in high dosage for extended periods of time and are LEGAL in…

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The Kitten Game-How to Help Feral Kittens

The Kitten Game-How to Help Feral Kittens

by Bernadette E. Kazmarski

  The universal response to finding kittens is to presume they are abandoned and unable to care for themselves and to take them home, but not only is that rarely the right response, it’s not even the right presumption and can often be harmful to the kittens and backfire if you are attempting to manage a colony through TNR. These kittens may be found by someone else or…

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Podcast: Marooned With 20 Dogs in Houston

Podcast: Marooned With 20 Dogs in Houston

Special podcast report- interview recorded on September 4th

  A riveting interview with Betty Walter, a young woman caught in the hurricane and aftermath marooned in her home with 20 dogs in her care and refused to leave until rescuers were willing to take all her dogs. She shares that when the water reached four feet in her home, she decided to move the dogs one at a time to higher ground. “I…

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Buster's Friends- The Chewie Chi Interview

Buster’s Friends- The Chewie Chi Interview

  Hello Pet Radio friends! This is Buster Boy here with another interview with a new friend.  I met Chewie the Chi and had a great time. He is my kind of dog!

  Hi Chewie.  Tell us how you met your human and your new home. 

From what I remember,  I was walking the streets with no where to go when a human took me to a safe place called Yuma Humane Society and then a nice lady named Roberta took…

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Alley Cat Allies Deploys Resources to Gulf Coast for Hurricane Recovery

Alley Cat Allies Deploys Resources to Gulf Coast for Hurricane Recovery

HOUSTON, Sept. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Alley Cat Allies has deployed an expert, bilingual disaster response team and is sending additional resources to help Texas and Louisianaorganizations rescue cats and other animals whose lives continue to be in peril because of Hurricane Harvey.

A member of the Alley Cat Allies Rapid Response Team loads a van with supplies and equipment. The…

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Lessons from a Feral Dog

Lessons from a Feral Dog

  by Lisa Tenzin-Dolma

  It all began on a cold, dark February evening in 2013. A dog so terrified that he was unable to move was carried into my home by his transporter, and set down on the rug in my hallway. Charlie arrived as my latest foster, but the combination of his extreme fear issues and the bond that swiftly developed between us, tenuous though it was at first, led to him becoming my…

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Save a Pet Seeks Community Help to Care for 30 Dogs Following Death of Rescue Group Owner

Save a Pet Seeks Community Help to Care for 30 Dogs Following Death of Rescue Group Owner

  LONG ISLAND, New York – (August 28, 2017) – It’s not every day that a pet rescue organization gets a call to help rescue 30 dogs, but that’s exactly what happened last week when tragedy struck in Marion County, Texas. Save a Pet, located in Long Island, New York, has a great reputation for helping dogs around the nation find homes. They received a call that there were 30 dogs in need of…