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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.
Read more at: NY TIMES
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- 1 year ago
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A New Event for Pets That Can’ A New Event for Pets That Can’t be Licked for Fun:
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Nurtured Pets™ Participates in Chicago’s first annual Dog Day on the Green
New Philadelphia, Ohio – (July 27, 2009) An abundance of tails will be wagging to beat the band at the inaugural launch of Chicago’s Dog Day on the Green. This eco-friendly, fun family festival for dog owners and dog lovers of all ages will take place near Soldier Field at
1410 S. Museum Campus Drive on Sunday, August 2, 2009.A full day of exciting activities is scheduled for both owners and pets, from the Fido Fashion Show to the Doggy Olympics to the “Hoop and Hurdles” agility test. But just in case a scrape, minor bruise or bee sting should happen to a participating pet, there will also be plenty of Anti-Lick Strip Prevent™ pet bandages on hand, courtesy of Nurtured Pets.
These unique, patent-pending pet bandages are clinically proven to discourage pets from obsessive licking, biting and chewing – behaviors that can lead to more serious conditions such as hot spots or lick granulomas. They’re also a great alternative to the E-collar for post-surgical sites.
On the outside, each bandage is constructed with all-natural, active outfacing ingredients, such as cayenne pepper, clove oil and oregano, that deter pets from bothering problem spots so they have a chance to heal. A peel-and-stick, medical-grade adhesive on the opposite side can be applied directly to hair or skin.
Anti-Lick Strip Prevent pet bandages can be used as a protective covering to help promote healing, or applied at the first sign of biting or licking. So a product like this belongs in every pet parent’s first aid kit. And pet parents will be glad to know that Anti-Lick Strip Prevent products are veterinarian-approved and manufactured in the United States.
According to Cindy Miller, Marketing Director at Nurtured Pets, “we’re thrilled to be charter exhibitors at this festive family event.” To check out these revolutionary bandages in person, be sure to visit the Nurtured Pets booth during Dog Day on the Green. Anti-Lick Strip samples will handed out in small, medium and large sizes. For more information or to find a retailer near you, visit www.nurturedpets.com.
About Nurtured Pets
Nurtured Pets™ is dedicated to providing products that create a healthy lifestyle for pets. The company has introduced the first product of its kind to deter obsessive licking, biting and chewing. Clinically proven and formulated with all-natural active ingredients, products include: Anti-Lick Strip Prevent™ sold in retail stores, Anti-Lick Strip Pro™ and Anti-Lick Strip Pro C™ both sold exclusively to veterinarians. Nurtured Pets, a Lauren International, Inc., company, is an Ohio-based manufacturer. For more information, visit our website at www.nurturedpets.com or contact Josh Weirich at 330.339.3373 ext. 7326 or Josh.Weirich@nurturedpets.com. Visit our parent company at www.laureninternational.com.###
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A SPECIAL CHANCE FOR A HAPPY A SPECIAL CHANCE FOR A HAPPY ENDING!
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15 puppy mill dogs headed to New York and new beginnings
By Cathy Scott, Best Friends staff writer
More than 200 dogs, from puppies to middle-aged adults, are resting easier today. The cast-off canines were just saved from commercial breeders in Missouri in a successful joint effort between animal rescue groups, including Best Friends.
Typically killed to make room for more, these lucky dogs—either used-up breeders or puppies deemed too old to be sold at pet stores—are being driven to New York to waiting foster groups after rescuers were allowed to enter the breeding farms and retrieve them.
Most of the dogs were understandably frightened when the rescue took place. “It’s a pretty crazy day for them,” says Jeff Popowich, Best Friends’ animal care operations manager. “Coming out of the wire cages they’ve always lived in and into plastic carriers is scary.”
Dogs Of All Varieties
On Saturday, May 9, Popowich and Best Friends Dogtown co-manager Michelle Besmehn went inside a mill that housed dogs in wire-floored cages. “We pulled about 60,” Popowich says. “A few of them are really matted with fleas and ticks.”
Still, he notes, all things considered, “They’re in pretty good shape.”
Pulled from another breeder’s property were 72 dogs of all varieties—cocker spaniels whose matted fur looked like dreadlocks, standard-sized poodles with overgrown coats, miniature pinschers, jack russell terriers, Shelties, Chihuahuas, yellow, chocolate and black Labrador retrievers, King Charles spaniels and malteses, shih-tzus and llaso apsos so dirty rescuers couldn’t tell the color of their fur.
“There are some that are friendly [but] most are totally terrified,” says Kelli Ohrtman, specialist for Best Friends’ Puppy Mills Campaign, who organized the Pup My Ride transport and found the rescue groups to take the dogs. “They’re absolutely filthy. One cocker is super matted with big bald spots where the hair has been pulled out. We’re seeing tumors and hernias and deformed feet.”
Despite the conditions, a few are already coming around. “Some start wagging their tails when you hold them for a while,” Ohrtman says.
The rescue and transport of the dogs is part of Best Friends' Puppies Aren't Products national campaign, which targets the retail end of commercial breeding through demonstrations at puppy stores, to let unsuspecting consumers know the truth behind mills. Puppy mill dogs, Ohrtman says, make up a large percentage of the 4 to 5 million pets killed each year in American animal shelters.
From Missouri to New York
On this day, 215 dogs were saved and are now on their way to new lives. After rescuing them, they were seen by a veterinarian, given exams and vaccinations, and then transferred to a large air-conditioned transport truck to be driven to New York.
The worst of the matted dogs, Popowich says, were groomed and shaved down the first night so they’d be more comfortable.
On Monday, May 11, they’ll be handed over in Port Washington, New York, to several rescue groups, including North Shore Animal League America. North Shore will take the majority, with a few smaller groups in New York taking in some and Best Friends taking some back to Kanab, Utah, as well.
Eager to greet them in the Port Washington hamlet of Long Island will be Devera Lynn, vice President of Communications at North Shore, who says her group is happy to help.
“These are living, breathing little souls who have never walked on the ground, never felt human touch or love and have been kept in a small cage just to breed,” Lynn says. “We’re happy to be a part of this and to be able to save so many lives, to find wonderful, loving homes so they can enjoy life to the fullest, as they should.”
Pure Joy
Theresa Strader, founder of National Mill Dog Rescue, couldn’t agree more. It’s what her group, which was founded in 2007, is all about.
“It’s pure joy,” she says when asked how it feels to save that many dogs in one day from breeding farms. “This is a culmination of a lot of hard work, and it’s completely joyous.”
This transport operation is the first in what is hoped to be a series of taking rescued dogs from puppy mills to foster groups. Donations toward that effort help make even more transports possible and are greatly appreciated, Ohrtman says.
How You Can Help
• Stay on top of this rescue and road trip to Manhattan by reading the blog.
• North Shore Animal League America will announce later in the week when the dogs will be available for adoption. Please visit their website to inquire about adopting.
• Donate to the Best Friends’ Puppies Aren’t Products campaign to help shut down unethical breeders.
• Learn more about puppy mills, visit Puppies Aren't Products.
• To learn how puppy mills trick unsuspecting owners and use the internet to sell dogs, click here.
• The perfect dog for your family, purebred or mixed breed, can be found at a rescue group or shelter. Please visit Petfinder.com to start the search.
Groups Involved in the Rescue
• Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons
• Best Friends Animal Society
• Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter
• National Mill Dog Rescue
• Noah’s Ark Animal Welfare Association
• North Shore Animal League America
• St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center
Photos by Sarah Ause, Best Friends photographer
Video by Jason Watt, Best Friends staff
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Meet the World's Oldest Dog Meet the World's Oldest Dog
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She's the world's oldest pooch, with 21 years under her collar, but she never learned how to beg.
"She's independent. If she didn't want to do something, she had a look she would give, and she usually got her way," Long Islander Denice Shaughnessy joked of her aging dachshund, Chanel, whose 147th birthday -- in people years -- is today.
Chanel -- named the oldest dog by Guinness World Records last year -- is taking a rare trip from her Port Jefferson Station home to mingle with canine buddies invited to her Manhattan birthday party.
The old girl's red hair faded to white a long time ago. Her cataracts force her to wear special doggie glasses and her bones feel the cold.
Her home is kept at a constant 72 degrees. She eats boiled chicken with whole-wheat pasta, and a specially selected soft treat designed for her ancient teeth.
And she spends her days relaxing at home, only taking walks in the summer.
"She used to run three miles with me every day," said Shaughnessy, a high-school principal's secretary who adopted Chanel from a Virginia shelter as a 6-week-old pup.
"She still enjoys a walk, but now she's carried for a lot of it."
Chanel took the title as the oldest dog last spring when a 28-year-old beagle from Virginia died.
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Pondering Pondering
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Roxy figuring out what to do next.
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They WORK! They WORK!
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My brother owns a 2 year old english lab. The first time she came into heat they put one of those dog diapers on her. She wouldn't leave that thing on for more than 5 minutes. The purhased some of the strips and applied them to the diaper where she continued to pull it off from. The first time she went to rip it off again she got a good whiff of the strip and went into a sneeze fit. But she never tried to pull it off again!!!
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