Dog ‘hitches ride’ in NM, meets owner in Louisiana – Yahoo! News

February 18th, 2010 by posterous

NEW ORLEANS %u2013 The dogs in New Orleans’ Carnival pet parade included a pooch that hitched a ride 1,200 miles from Taos, New Mexico, to the city where his 26-year-old master had hitchhiked weeks earlier. Stephan Soleas came to New Orleans for a few weeks of visits and music. He said his 6-year-old Labrador mix, Charlie, went missing days after he left.

Charlie was found by a couple vacationing in Taos. The couple saw a collarless dog and tried to find its owner, but the veterinarian didn’t have a microchip scanner.

The couple gave up their airline tickets, rented a car and made the 3-day drive back to New Orleans with the dog. Incidentally, they also named the dog Charlie.

Soleas and Charlie were reunited 10 days later %u2014 Feb. 5 %u2014 when Magazine Street Animal Clinic co-owner Teresa Gernon checked a microchip in the white dog’s neck. Two days later, they were in the Krewe of Barkus pet parade.

Can you believe that this dog was named Charlie and the people that found him named Charlie too? Seriously.

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pixie round two | minneapolis dog photography » Sarah Beth Photography

February 17th, 2010 by posterous

This is a minnesota dog at its best.

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New York Post – Scottish terrier Sadie wins top Westminster prize

February 17th, 2010 by posterous

Sadie the lady is a champ.

The elegant Scottish terrier overcame dog-eat-dog competition last night and wowed the crowd at Madison Square Garden to take Best in Show honors at the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

“She was perfect. I couldn’t ask for anything else,” said Sadie’s handler, Gabriel Rangel.

Sadie entered the show as the No. 1 dog in the country but had to go snout to snout with the No. 2 ranked show dog, a hard-nosed Doberman named C.J., who won the working group and was backed by a large segment of dog lovers at the Garden.

APTOP DOG: Publicity hound Sadie takes her first walk last night as Westminster Dog Show champion at the Garden.
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TOP DOG: Publicity hound Sadie takes her first walk last night as Westminster Dog Show champion at the Garden.

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But judge Elliott Weiss was charmed by Sadie, a petite pooch with jet black eyes who happily paraded around with her tongue sticking out.

“A dog of this quality only comes along once every 10 years,” he said.

It was an historic win as Sadie became the first winner of the dog-show Triple Crown.

She had been named top dog at the National Dog Show in Pennsylvania in November and the American Kennel Club/Eukanuba National Championship in California in December.

The Westminster ribbon was her 112th best in show honor.

It was her third attempt at Westminster. Last year’s try ended dismally when she relieved herself on the Garden floor.

Rangel stopped short of saying Sadie would retire now that she’s won the big prize, but admitted, “She won everything she has to win.”

The handler described the canine world’s newest su perstar as a “happy” dog who “really enjoys herself.”

“She likes to watch TV,” Rangel said. “We have dinner together at the hotel and watch ‘Animal Planet.’ ”

The show was briefly interrupted by a protest when two women ran onto the Garden floor and held up signs reading, “Mutts Rule” and “Breeders Kill Shelter Dogs’ Chances,” a slogan often used by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The women were charged with criminal trespass. With AP

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Scottish Terrier Sadie Wins Top Westminister Prize

February 17th, 2010 by Jay

BBC News – More cat owners ‘have degrees’ than dog-lovers

February 11th, 2010 by posterous
Dog and three kittens
What do you prefer? Dogs, cats… or maybe both

People who own a cat are more likely to have a university degree than those with a pet dog, a study by Bristol University suggests.

A poll of 2,524 households found that 47.2% of those with a cat had at least one person educated to degree level, compared with 38.4% of homes with dogs.

The study said longer hours, possibly associated with better qualified jobs, may make owning a dog impractical.

It also found that UK pet ownership was much higher than previously thought.

Cat and dog numbers were last estimated in a scientific peer-reviewed journal in 1989, which said there were 6.2 million and 6.4 million respectively in the UK.

Our best guess is that it’s to do with working hours and perhaps commuting to work, meaning people have a less suitable lifestyle for a dog

Dr Jane Murray
University of Bristol

But according to Bristol’s Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, the populations today are likely to be about 10.3 million and 10.5 million.

Overall, it estimated that 26% of UK households owned cats and 31% owned dogs.

The study, published in Veterinary Record, suggested a number of other characteristics, aside from education level, were associated with either cat or dog ownership.

Of those surveyed, dog-lovers were more likely to be male, living in rural areas and under the age of 55.

Age of children

But cat owners were more likely to be female and living in smaller or single-person households.

The age of children in a family also appeared to make a difference, with cats being more common than dogs in homes with children under the age of 10.

However Dr Jane Murray, a lecturer in feline epidemiology at Bristol University, said the variation in education level between owners was the most striking difference.

“We don’t know why there is this discrepancy,” she told the BBC News website.

“We did look at average household income but that wasn’t significant.

“Our best guess is that it’s to do with working hours and perhaps commuting to work, meaning people have a less suitable lifestyle for a dog.

“It’s really just a hunch though.”

Dr Murray, whose post is funded by the Cats Protection charity, said researchers hoped to repeat the study using the results of the 2011 census to get a clearer idea of trends in UK pet ownership.

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Shelter pups score leading roles in local Puppy Bowl (with video)

February 6th, 2010 by posterous

If Vikings fans are still as blue as Brett Favre’s ankle about missing out on the Super Bowl, this is bound to cheer up some of them: The Twin Cities Puppy Bowl (twincitiespuppybowl.com) is 10 minutes of pure puptastic cuteness filled with lots of sniffing, a little nipping and plenty of tackling by more than a dozen pups looking for homes.

A localized version of Animal Planet’s Super Bowl alternative “Puppy Bowl,” which celebrates its sixth year Sunday, the TC Puppy Bowl idea came from Lisa Weikle, general manager of Fetch Delivers, a pet product supply company. Weikle found a bunch of like-minded folks from Sidewalk Dog, Sarah Beth Photography and Pampered Pooch Playground who share

a common passion for animal rescue. Together, they met on a recent Saturday at the Pampered Pooch in St. Louis Park, laid down some artificial turf, threw up some fake walls for a mini-stadium, set a bunch of rambunctious pups loose and started filming the action. The video’s amusing commentary by Tom Scott and George Scot McKelvey was added later.

“We were just trying to make each other laugh,” says McKelvey about recording his parts. “You start inventing rules for the game and try to find the funny in between how self-serious football actually is and the commentators are and just how absurdly cute the puppies are.”

Ali Jarvis, founder of SidewalkDog.com, a guide to dog-friendly places and events

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in the Twin Cities, was in charge of rounding up the puppies. She went to a half-dozen animal-rescue organizations in the area and eventually found 15 needy pups.

“The goal is not only to get pups adopted through the Puppy Bowl but to call attention to the rescues,” said Jarvis. “People should consider looking at rescues when searching for their next pooch.”

One of the pups featured in the TC Puppy Bowl is Clarence, a black terrier/lab mix that was found nearly frozen to death in northern

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Clarence, a black terrier mix puppy involved in the Puppy Bowl. (Courtesy to Pioneer Press: Sarah Beth Photography)

Minnesota. He’s a spunky little guy these days. You can vote for Clarence along with Joni and Chachi, a couple of French bulldog mixes; Millie, a Pomeranian; Olive, a boxer; Rahja, the shepherd mix; and all the other pups for Puppy Bowl MVP. An award worth $500 goes to the winner’s rescue group.

Weikle is confident all the puppies will be adopted.

“I have no doubt. They’re too cute not to,” she said.

Amy Carlson Gustafson can be reached at 651-228-5561.

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2010 Twin Cities Puppy Bowl

February 2nd, 2010 by posterous
Check out what Lisa from FetchDelivers, Sarah from SarahBeth Photography, Ali from SideWalkDog and Keith from Pampered Pooch have put together.  The First Annual Twin Cities Puppy Bowl in support of local Twin Cities Rescue Groups.

Welcome to Twin Cities Puppy Bowl featuring puppies from local Twin Cities rescue groups.  Many of the puppies featured in the puppy bowl are available for adoption.  After you watch the video make sure you vote for the M.V.P (Most Valuable Puppy). To stay updated on the latest Twin Cities Puppy Bowl news, make sure to follow us on  Facebook.

The Twin Cities Puppy Bowl is sponsored by Sarah Beth PhotographyFetch DeliversSidewalk Dog and Pampered Pooch Playground.

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