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For some years, the Cape Town City Council has been in the process of reviewing the its animal by-laws and after much discussion and many complaints from the public, they are now ready to be accepted by Council. However, in response to accusations that the DA led Council has been indifferent to people’s concerns, a [...]

News24.com/SouthAfrica/News
4/20/2010 10:37:00 PM
Pretoria – Sniffing out bombs and landmines in war-torn countries is the last thing 11 dogs, belonging to Minetech outside Pretoria, want to do.
They just want to play.
These dogs and four of their “colleagues” are ready for retirement after all the hard work over the course of their long careers. And that’s why [...]

From: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/637980.html
Medical advances making it possible for dogs like Cassidy to romp on all four legs
By Maryann Mott
HealthDay Reporter
An injury prevented Juniper from walking normally. Frostbite damaged the hind legs of Meadow. And Andre gnawed off his paws to escape from a wolf trap.
Until a few years ago, there wasn’t much hope [...]

Since the airing of National Geographic’s Dog Whisperer featuring Cesar Millan, I’ve had a few calls about what I think of the program. I’ve been debating if I should write about it, because when trainers disagree, it seems to be put down to ‘professional jealousy’, lack of confidence and pettiness. On request of a client [...]

With winter on our doorstep we start to live more indoors due to unpleasant weather and daylight becoming shorter. We don’t go out as much and we seem to get under everybody’s feet. Not having enough space around and routine summer activities coming to a halt seem to be creating frustration in our dogs. During winter [...]

Follow the story in Die Burger of Max, the 6 year old Yorkie, that was swooped up by an eagle. Don’t dispair, it has a happy ending! Please note that if you are in an area that has eagles and falcons, don’t allow your toy and small breed dogs and even large breed puppies to [...]

Close to where we live, there are not many beaches that allow dogs, which means that the one beach that do allow dogs, is always full of people walking their dogs, letting them swim or throwing retrieve toys for them in the waves. I love seeing people out with their dogs and seeing how the [...]

The eagle has landed… I’m connected again with the outside world and I am up and running. I cannot believe how disconnected one feels without those things that we are use to, such as the internet, email and DSTV for the news.
We have arrived in our new (rented) house, sort of settled in, and trying [...]

Hi fellow PetPup’pers’ and PetDog’gers’…

I’m now officially ‘clocking out’ for a while as we are moving tomorrow. I will be without email, internet and land line communications for a while, so if you do need to get hold of me you can do so on my cell phone. Hopefully I will get a land line [...]

Rico is a Border collie that knows the names of 200 objects. His owners started training him to learn the names of toys when he was sick at 10-months old and could not leave the house. When asked to go and retrieve a particular toy i.e. the ‘yellow pokemon’, he will correctly pick out the [...]

The world record for the highest jump cleared by a dog is 172.7 cm (68 ins), achieved by Cinderella May a Holly Grey, owned by Kate Long and Kathleen Conroy (both USA) of Miami, Florida, USA, at the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge National Finals, Gray Summit, Missouri, USA on 7 October 2006.

172.2 cm is [...]

The world record for the most tennis balls held in the mouth by a dog at one time is FIVE. Augie, a golden retriever owned by the Miller family in Dallas, Texas, USA, successfully gathered and held all five regulation-sized tennis balls on July 6, 2003.

A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet cuddle up as if they were family after the baby runt was dismissed by its own mother.

Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, took on motherly duties for grunter Paulinchen – a tiny pot-bellied pig – and seems to be taking the adoption [...]

I have just heard from one of my clients that her dog had an operation to remove KELP from her stomach. This is actually the THIRD dog in just a few months that I have heard of  getting an op for the same thing. One of these dogs did unfortunately not make it and [...]

For updates, photos, slide shows and news on their training, deployment, bios on S&R dogs and handlers and their success stories visit the Search Dog Foundation website.

I have seen this YouTube video in the past and it seems to be doing the cyber space rounds again. I think  it is a good video (as they provide slow motion) to see and explained what happend. I also thought it would be a good exercise to test yourself. Look at the questions and then watch [...]