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World's oldest dog dies in NY World's oldest dog dies in NY at 21 — or 147
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NEW YORK – A wire-haired dachshund that held the record as the world's oldest dog and celebrated its last birthday with a party at a dog hotel and spa has died at age 21 — or 147 in dog years.
The dog, named Chanel, died Friday of natural causes at her owners' home in suburban Port Jefferson Station, on Long Island.
Chanel, as stylish as her legendary namesake, wore tinted goggles for her cataracts in her later years and favored sweaters because she was sensitive to the cold, owners Denice and Karl Shaughnessy said Monday.
The playful dachshund was only 6 weeks old when Denice Shaughnessy, then serving with the U.S. Army, adopted her from a shelter in Newport News, Va.
Along with her owner, Chanel spent nine years on assignment in Germany, where she became adept at stealing sticks of butter from kitchen countertops and hiding them in sofa cushions in the living room, Shaughnessy said. She also liked chocolate, usually considered toxic to dogs, Shaughnessy said.
"She once ate an entire bag of Reese's peanut butter cups, and, you see, she lived to be 21, so go figure," Shaughnessy added.
Karl Shaughnessy nominated Chanel for the title of world's oldest dog after noticing the Guinness World Records book had no record.
Guinness World Records officials presented Chanel with a certificate as the world's oldest dog at a Manhattan birthday bash hosted by a private pet food company in May.
Chanel loved the party, especially the cake, which had a peanut butter flavor and had been made for dogs, Denice Shaughnessy said.
Chanel exercised daily and ate home-cooked chicken with her dog food, but good care wasn't entirely responsible for her long life, said her owners, who attributed God.
"Dogs are God's angels sent here to look out for us," Denice Shaughnessy said.
A dog from New Iberia, La., named Max, is vying for the record of world's oldest dog. Owner Janelle Derouen said Max marked his 26th birthday on Aug. 9. She said Guinness World Records officials were reviewing documents to authenticate his age; a Guinness World Records official in London didn't immediately answer an e-mail from The Associated Press requesting confirmation of that.
When asked the secret to her dog's long life, Derouen said she was shocked he's still with her.
"I have five kids, and all my kids are grown and gone," she said. "Now my grandkids are playing with this dog."
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The Claim: Some Dogs Look Like The Claim: Some Dogs Look Like Their Owners
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Best friends they may be, but are man and dog so entwined that they tend to take after one another in appearance?
It is one of those eternal, quirky questions, at least for dog owners. But only recently have scientists taken a close look in actual studies.
In 2004, researchers in San Diego found that subjects in a study were able to correctly match pictures of dog owners with their pets more often than not, but only when the dogs were purebreds. Simple traits like hair and size played a smaller role than things like facial expressions.
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Dogs Look Like Their Owners Dogs Look Like Their Owners
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Dogs are smarter than toddlers Dogs are smarter than toddlers, IQ tests show
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Border collies and other bright canines can learn up to 250 words
The canine IQ test results are in: Even the average dog has the mental abilities of a 2-year-old child.
The finding is based on a language development test, revealing average dogs can learn 165 words (similar to a 2-year-old child), including signals and gestures, and dogs in the top 20 percent in intelligence can learn 250 words.
And the smartest?
Border collies, poodles, and German shepherds, in that order, says Stanley Coren, a canine expert and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia. Those breeds have been created recently compared with other dog breeds and may be smarter in part because we've trained and bred them to be so, Coren said. The dogs at the top of the pack are on par with a 2.5-year-old.
Better at math and socializing
While dogs ranked with the 2-year-olds in language, they would trump a 3- or 4-year-old in basic arithmetic, Coren found. In terms of social smarts, our drooling furballs fare even better."The social life of dogs is much more complex, much more like human teenagers at that stage, interested in who is moving up in the pack and who is sleeping with who and that sort of thing," Coren told LiveScience.
Coren, who has written more than a half-dozen books on dogs and dog behavior, will present an overview of various studies on dog smarts at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Toronto.
"We all want insight into how our furry companions think, and we want to understand the silly, quirky and apparently irrational behaviors [that] Lassie or Rover demonstrate," Coren said. "Their stunning flashes of brilliance and creativity are reminders that they may not be Einsteins but are sure closer to humans than we thought."
Math test
To get inside the noggin of man's best friend, scientists are modifying tests for dogs that were originally developed to measure skills in children.Here's one: In an arithmetic test, dogs watch as one treat and then another treat are lowered down behind a screen. When the screen gets lifted, the dogs, if they get arithmetic (1+1=2), will expect to see two treats. (For toddlers, other objects would be used.)
But say the scientist swipes one of the treats, or adds another so the end result is one, or three treats, respectively. "Now we're giving him the wrong equation which is 1+1=1, or 1+1=3," Coren said. Sure enough, studies show the dogs get it. "The dog acts surprised and stares at it for a longer period of time, just like a human kid would," he said.
These studies suggest dogs have a basic understanding of arithmetic, and they can count to four or five.
Basic emotions
Other studies Coren notes have found that dogs show spatial problem-solving skills. For instance, they can locate valued items, such as treats, find better routes in the environment, such as the fastest way to a favorite chair, and figure out how to operate latches and simple machines.Like human toddlers, dogs also show some basic emotions, such as happiness, anger and disgust. But more complex emotions, such as guilt, are not in a dog's toolbox. (What humans once thought was guilt was found to be doggy fear, Coren noted.)
And while dogs know whether they're being treated fairly, they don't grasp the concept of equity. Coren recalls a study in which dogs get a treat for "giving a paw."
When one dog gets a treat and the other doesn't, the unrewarded dog stops performing the trick and avoids making eye contact with the trainer. But if one dog, say, gets rewarded with a juicy steak while the other snags a measly piece of bread, on average the dogs don't care about the inequality of the treats.
Top dogs
To find out which dogs had the top school smarts, Coren collected data from more than 200 dog obedience judges from the United States and Canada.He found the top dogs, in order of their doggy IQ are:
- Border collies
- Poodles
- German shepherds
- Golden retrievers
- Dobermans
- Shetland sheepdogs
- Labrador retrievers
At the bottom of the intelligence barrel, Coren would include many of the hounds, such as the bassett hound and the Afghan hound, along with the bulldog, beagle and basenji (a hunting dog).
"It's important to note that these breeds which don't do as well tend to be considerably older breeds," he said. "They were developed when the task of a hound was to find something by smell or sight." These dogs might fare better on tests of so-called instinctive intelligence, which measure how well dogs do what they are bred to do.
"The dogs that are the brightest dogs in terms of school learning ability tend to be the dogs that are much more recently developed," Coren said. He added that there's a "high probability that we've been breeding dogs so they're more responsive to human beings and human signals." So the most recently bred dogs would be more human-friendly and rank higher on school smarts.
Many of these smarty-pants are also the most popular pets. "We like dogs that understand us," Coren said.
We also love the beagle, which made it to the top 10 list of most popular dog breeds in 2008 by the American Kennel Club. That's because they are so sweet and sociable, Coren said. "Sometimes people love the dumb blonde," Coren said.
And sometimes the dim-wits make better pets. While a smart dog will figure out everything you want it to know, your super pet will also learn everything it can get away with, Coren warns.
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Save A Mom dog rescue is a non profit dog shelter that takes in pregnant dogs that can no longer be taken care of. The Owner, Denise, takes all dogs in no matter what and treats them like her own. All dogs pictured are available for adoption.
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Save A Mom dog rescue is a non profit dog shelter that takes in pregnant dogs that can no longer be taken care of. The Owner, Denise, takes all dogs in no matter what and treats them like her own. All dogs pictured are available for adoption.
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Save A Mom dog rescue is a non profit dog shelter that takes in pregnant dogs that can no longer be taken care of. The Owner, Denise, takes all dogs in no matter what and treats them like her own. All dogs pictured are available for adoption.
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Save A Mom dog rescue is a non profit dog shelter that takes in pregnant dogs that can no longer be taken care of. The Owner, Denise, takes all dogs in no matter what and treats them like her own. All dogs pictured are available for adoption.
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Save A Mom dog rescue is a non profit dog shelter that takes in pregnant dogs that can no longer be taken care of. The Owner, Denise, takes all dogs in no matter what and treats them like her own. All dogs pictured are available for adoption.
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One of them many dogs at the event starting a new fashion trend.
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Traveling Dogs Traveling Dogs
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Babies Understand Dogs, Bark-m Babies Understand Dogs, Bark-matching Study Finds
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ScienceDaily (July 21, 2009) — New research shows babies have a handle on the meaning of different dog barks – despite little or no previous exposure to dogs.
Infants just 6 months old can match the sounds of an angry snarl and a friendly yap to photos of dogs displaying threatening and welcoming body language.
The new findings come on the heels of a study from the same Brigham Young University lab showing that infants can detect mood swings in Beethoven’s music.
Though the mix of dogs and babies sounds silly, experiments of this kind help us understand how babies learn so rapidly. Long before they master speech, babies recognize and respond to the tone of what’s going on around them.
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Six-month-old babies can match the sounds of happy and angry barks to pictures of happy and angry dogs.
(Credit: Image courtesy of Brigham Young University)
Brigham Young University (2009, July 21). Babies Understand Dogs, Bark-matching Study Finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 24, 2009,
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Forget The Frisbee; Cool Dogs Forget The Frisbee; Cool Dogs Catch Waves
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Southern California, the birthplace of '60s surf culture, is seeing a new trend: surfing dogs.
We're not talking about a few wonder pooches — these dogs are taking classes and even entering surf competitions.
"That's Angus," Gini Moncur happily indicates the chihuahua mix who just caught a 10-inch wave. "He really enjoys this." Participants of the surf clinic cheer Angus from the beach. Angus promptly follows his feat by turning tail to the tip of his board.
Backwards on the board seems to be the style of preference for the novice surfing dogs. Others prefer lying down.
"It's baby steps," clinic instructor Rene Bruce says. "What we really try to promote is the dogs wanting to get on the board and go have some fun."
That's what most dogs are having — especially the ones chasing the bodyboards — when Bobby Gorgeous, the star pupil of last week, shows up.
"Not to discriminate or anything, but you wouldn't think of a Pomeranian being a surf dog," Bruce says. "And he did so great, I couldn't believe it."
The small blond dog hits the water running and then jumps on the board. This is his last chance to train before the surf competition.
The Big Day
More than 40 dogs are entered in the Surfin' Paws Dog Jam in Huntington Beach. The sun's out, there are 2-foot swells, and the pros on their soft foam boards are getting in some practice time.
One of the contestants is Hunter, a golden retriever in a neon doggie life vest. Owner Rose Jeffrey says they've both been surfing for four months now.
"It's a way for me to spend time in the water with my dog. And now that my children are grown, I need an activity to use the surfboards that are left in my garage," she says, laughing.
The crowd spots a celebrity in the water — Tyson the famous skateboarding bulldog.
"We're here for the fun," Tyson's owner, Jim Blauvelt, says as the pair shake off the sand and salt water. "There's some serious competitors here today that we can't hold a candle to. Now if it was skateboarding, that would be different."
The contest gets under way. The two leading favorites are Nani, an 85-pound Bernese mountain dog, and Buddy, a Jack Russell. Both catch 3-foot waves and ride them all the way to shore. The spectators cheer.
Veteran surfer Sam Wenzel is impressed with the competition. "One dog actually sat down on his haunches to catch the wave, and then the board started to tilt, and he put his leg out to steady it. It was pretty incredible," he says.
At the end of the day, it's the style of the Bernese mountain dog Nani who wins the judges over to take the grand prize. Nani's owner Peter Noll says the dog's first time in the water was just nine months ago.
"She's a newbie, but she's a natural. She really has a good time," he says.
The stress of competition over, Nani and the rest of the contestants join the other beach dogs, rolling in the sand and lounging under umbrellas. One even caught a Frisbee.
by Gloria Hillard - npr.com
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DogFest 2009! is right around DogFest 2009! is right around the corner!
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Dogfest 2009 is fast approaching and we are now accepting early vendor and rescue group applications due to the success of last year's Dogfest. Registration is available online (links to the right)!
This is the Baltimore Humane Society's major fundraiser and community event that is one of the largest animal related events in Maryland. The event takes place on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at the beautiful setting of Shawan Downs in Hunt Valley, Maryland. We are expecting 5,000 – 7,000 pet owners to attend this year!
Dogfest is an extravaganza for dogs and their families. It will be a fun-filled day of dog games and contests, agility runs, pet education and tent pavilions that will have many dog rescue groups attending with their pets that are for adoption. We will even have a sandy beach and pools for the dogs to play in along with a puppy pumpkin patch where dogs get to pick their own pumpkins. Once again, we will have the “Best At The Fest” picture contest by Baltimore Dog Magazine to select a cover dog for their edition following Dogfest.
This year, we are also including Equine Rescue groups who are exhibiting horses that are for adoption along with horseback riding for kids and adults. Even the Maryland Jousting Society will have live Jousting Demonstration since it is the official sport of Maryland. Due to popular demand, we are expanding our Cat Adoption pavilion and will also be running our 5K-9 Fun Run where pet owners get to run with their dog.
101.9 Lite FM, one of Baltimore's most popular radio stations is our radio media sponsor again and will be broadcasting live during the event to promote Dogfest with their other CBS radio and television stations.
Courtesy of the Baltimore Humane Society. www.baltimorehumane.org
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The 10 Biggest Mistakes Dog Tr The 10 Biggest Mistakes Dog Trainers Make
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When new trainers first get started, they tend to make a lot of mistakes in their techniques and how the approach the training process. There are a few mistakes that are fairly common among most trainers and we shall make these ten mistakes the subject of this discourse.
Mistake number one is expecting too much. The individual who makes this error is usually well meaning and a true dog lover. The problem steps in when they see all the tricks their neighbors dog can do, they watch the well trained pets of their favorite sitcom characters and they go to the park and see all of the pet owners there enjoying the company of dogs that are obedient and well trained. It is at this point that they tend to forget all the time, patience and money that has went into these animals and achieving the successes they have become.
Mistake number two is also quite common and falls to the other extreme. It is the mistake of giving up. These owners are also well meaning and usually started out as the group who expected too much. Unfortunately, they lack the patience or commitment to achieve the result they want and decide to take an all or nothing approach. These owners decide that their pet can't learn to play Frisbee in an hour or so, this dog just isn't going to learn at all.
Mistake number three is not being consistent. If you tell the dog not to jump on you when you are in your business suit and expect them to mind, don't let them jump on you when you are wearing your jogging clothes either. Consistent training is important if you want a well-trained dog.
Mistake number four is not using enough positive reinforcement. Many a frustrated trainer has gone home with poor results because they forget to reward the dog for doing well. Rewards must be consistent, just like the training. An animal that only receives correction and never rewards will begin to do the wrong behavior just to get some type of attention.
Mistake number five is similar to number four. It is giving too much negative reinforcement. This is the owner that spends his day looking for the dog to make a mistake so they can be corrected. This is a mistake because when you are focused on finding the displeasing behaviors you fail to recognize and reward all the good behaviors your dog displays.
Mistake number six is also quite simple to fall into. It is trying to teach a dog something it was never meant to do. This problem is more common amongst individuals wanting a sport animal for such things as hunting. They try to make a general purpose multitasking animal and instead create a confused and agitated creature. Some dogs just were not meant for some jobs. You can't ask a Dachshund to be a fox hound and you wouldn't ask a Great Dane to go into a rabbit den. Get the right dog for the job at hand.
Mistake number seven is not following thru. Dogs love to learn and will learn thru repetition and consistent lessons. However, these lessons must be followed thru with. If you spend an all day session training Fido Monday and then don't even talk to him again for two weeks, he will have most likely forgot the initial lesson.
Mistake number eight is the use of too many different techniques. While it important to glean wisdom from other trainers experiences, using everything you hear can be detrimental. Each trainer has different ideas of how things should be done and trying to incorporate all of them will frustrate you and your pet. Rather choose a method that works for you and be consistent and you will see much better results.
Mistake number nine is apathy. All too often a pet owner says I hate this or that about my pet but it's just too difficult to change it. Changes can be made and, if your dog sees that they bring rewards, he will respond much quicker to a direct and firm approach.
The final major mistake people make is thinking the training is over. Training is a learning process and it is never complete. Your dog may learn a behavior and know it well. So why stop there? Your dog loves to learn and you are a good trainer. Why would you ever want less than the best your dog could be?
With knowledge of these mistakes, you can recognize some of the common feelings might have encountered yourself and you can stem these before they become a problem. We wish you the best and also a happy adventure in training your dog.Courtesy of I-Love-Dogs.com
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Lick(er) Laws Lick(er) Laws
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My name is Victoria. Up until a few weeks ago, I was a puppy mill dog. Puppy mills are horribly cruel places. I was forced to live in a small, cramped cage without proper space or shelter. I only had room to stand and lie down and there was nothing protecting my feet or body from the harsh cage wires beneath me.*
I was forced to produce litter after litter, and I was not given proper medical care. My ears were infected and ached, my eyes were bone-dry and burned, and I did not have the proper nutrition for good health. Because I did not have proper medical care, my vision became impaired. Had I received medical attention in time, my eye condition, which is common to my breed, may have been prevented.
Puppy mills are nothing less than daily suffering and sorrow. I tried to be a happy dog, as I am happy and affectionate by nature. I would wag my tail and be a good girl, but no one touched or nurtured me. No one cared when I was ill and no one comforted me when I was frightened. This life was all I knew, and happiness was only a distant dream.
Then one day, I was rescued. Life started over for me. North Shore Animal League America changed my life and is nurturing me back to health. They are caring for all my medical and behavioral needs, and once I am ready, they will find me a home with a family that is perfect for me.
Thanks to the generosity of people like you - I am now getting all the support and care I need. I am being observed for a heart murmur, and am getting several medications to treat my eyes and ears as well as severe dermatitis – a skin condition that was also brought on by my previous neglect. Lastly, and best of all, I am now being showered with the love and affection I so desperately craved!
I never knew how good the grass felt on my feet before or the bliss of loving hands on my face. This is real happiness, but I know I am one of the lucky ones.
Please donate today, so even more puppy mill dogs can be rescued, nurtured and adopted into loving homes.
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