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Golden Poodle awards for November

 

The Golden Poodle award for November goes to Pooka the Chihuahua who adopted a litter of orphan kittens and Talim the Shepherd dog who adopted a litter of abandoned tiger cubs at a Russian zoo.

 

 

The Lizard Brain award goes to Janell Rangan, owner of a Dachshund rescue organization. She is suing Nora Vanetta, a woman who volunteered to foster and supervise the weight loss of Obie, a morbidly obese Dachshund.

Unless Rangan’s rescue is rolling in money, she really shouldn’t be paying a few hundred dollars an hour to a lawyer to try to get a dog back from a volunteer who is devoted to helping him.

Fortunately a judge agreed to let Obie stay with Vanetta while the custody suit plays out.

 

 

The Neanderthal Award goes to the officials in Coral Springs, Florida, and all the brain dead city officials who pass and try to enforce regulations that have no basis in common sense or compassion.

 

New Massachusetts law includes pets in domestic violence restraining orders

From the Patriot-Ledger - Panzer, a 6-year-old Labrador mix, has become the first animal to win protection under the new state law.

Panzer’s owner, a 38-year-old woman, and her 2-year-old son are living in a shelter out of state to get away from a violent ex-boyfriend who had kicked and dragged the dog in the past. Panzer is living in a foster home until the woman can get established in a safe place and they can all be reunited.

According to the animal control officer:

This new law allows a judge to award the possession of an animal to the victim and to prohibit the accused from abusing, threatening or taking the pet.

More than 70 percent of abused women have reported that their batterers have threatened to hurt or kill their pets. They use these threats to force the women to stay or to refrain from calling the police. Since most shelters don’t allow pets, the women feel trapped into staying in an abusive situation.

The state of Massachusetts convicted a man of animal cruelty after he killed his girlfriend’s 8-week-old puppy. He was sentenced to a one-year jail term.

At least he probably won’t kill anything else for a year.

My question is why do so many women get involved with these scumbags?

Washington Redskins dog won’t eat treats made by the Dallas Cowboys

The rivalry between the Redskins and the Cowboys dates back to 1960 and it is still going strong in 2012.

Dexter the dog loves treats made by the Redskins but being a loyal dog won’t touch anything made by the Cowboys.

Dexter is named after Dexter Manley who played nine years for the Redskins before moving on to other teams. After failing his fourth drug test, he was banned from the NFL for life. But Redskin fans still love him enough to name their dogs after him. From Sportsgrid

 

What if your friends acted like your pets?

Cat friend vs. Dog friend

How to cause 16 car accidents...

They dressed the truck up with the guy tied down on the roof.    The driver and passengers put on moose heads.      Then they went down the Interstate,  causing 16 accidents.   Yes, they went to jail...    Yes, alcohol was involved...   Thanks to Bob

Mother dog adopts newborn tigers

When a mother tiger rejected her cubs shortly after they were born in a Russian zoo, a Shepherd dog stepped in to take care of them.

 Tallim  keeps the cubs, Olymp, Dar, and Talli happy, clean and well fed.

 One of the cubs doesn’t seem to be very grateful, however...

City officials are trying to take a pet pig away from a child with Down’s syndrome

This sounds like yet another story about inflexible local officials pushing people around and creating a public relations nightmare for their city when the story is picked up by the media and scrutinized by the public with common sense and compassion.

You know the type of officials, they were hall monitors when we were in school and loved to get us all in trouble for any imagined infraction of rules.

And, yes, I infracted a lot.

Florida mother Heather Ray bought a baby piglet, Twinkie, for her 8-year-old son, Kason, as a therapy pet.

"It's important for people with special needs to be accepted," she explained. "Animals don't look at you like you're different. They love you no matter what. It's important for us to have him accepted.”

Kason’s father suffers from severe allergies, so hairless Twinkie seemed like an ideal match for the family.

However city officials say the Rays are breaking the law.

“Coral Springs [Florida] code does not allow pigs as pets, because livestock is not allowed,” city spokesman Bob Goehrig explained.

Livestock?

She was told she could either pay $1600 to try to change the ordinance or appeal to city commissioners. Although she has a prescription for a therapy pet for Kason, she must prove that Twinkie is needed as a therapy pet and faces fines of up to $500 a day.

The problem is that animals cannot be certified until they are a year old and tiny Twinkie is only six weeks old. The story

 

And speaking of brain dead city officials...

New York firefighters  set up a tent in Breezy Point, Queens to feed victims and first responders following the deadly storm. They were visited by city health department officials. Instead of pitching in and helping out, an official issued a notice of violation for not maintaining restaurant standards.

Seems the tent didn’t have an HVAC system and fire extinguisher and the volunteers weren’t wearing hair nets.

According to volunteer Bobby Eustace, an 11-year veteran with the city's fire department:

It’s just a little ridiculous. The inspector came up and asked if we were wearing hair nets. I told him, ‘We have helmets. This is a disaster area,’. Then he asked if we had gloves and thermometers [for food]. I said, ‘Yeah, we have rectal and oral. Which one do you want?’ He wasn’t amused. The story

With prosthetic legs and bright green Crocs, Spencer the Bulldog learns to walk

Dogs are so amazing.

They don't realize they have a disability.

They just want to be dogs.

Spencer's legs were paralyzed by a spinal injury.

Special prosthetic legs were molded for him.

No one knew if the experiment would work.

But all Spencer wanted was a chance
to go for walks with his brother,
a blind pig.

Story and video here 

   

Our traditional Thanksgiving greeting

From the Poodles, the dogs, the cat and Jan

Remember: Dogs have different digestive and nervous systems from people. Show your dogs how much you love them by keeping them safe from food that can be bad for dogs.

These Include

1. Bones  2. Raw, fatty, or undercooked turkey  3. Turkey skin 
4. Dough and cake batter  5. Beer  6. Macadamia nuts  7. Mushrooms 
8. Onions and garlic  9. Sage  10. Nutmeg  11. Chocolate
12. Any chicken jerky treat imported from China

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 (And you might have to remind people that you love your dogs
more than you care about their feelings.)

Max the Poodle channels Lady Gaga for 2013 calendar spread

 

Inspired by some of the wacky outfits of Lady Gaga, Lara Jo Regan, 47, a Los Angeles filmmaker, has produced a calendar starring Max the Poodle. Regan wanted to show off the 'beauty and potential' of stray animals through artwork.

Seven-year-old Max was rescued as a stray in 2008. Regan said:

'I tried to imagine what Lady Gaga might fashion herself if she were reincarnated as an aging, lethargic poodle with not much of a wardrobe budget.'

Yeah, we all were wondering about that.

This whole idea probably wouldn't have worked if Max had been
a rescued German Shepherd or Labrador.

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