If you haven’t taken a flight in the past year, be sure to leave your pet peacock at home now. Yes, goodbye pigs, penguins, kangaroos and everything else in the wild kingdom that airline passengers have passed off as emotional support animals in recent years, which has at times made the friendly sky more like […]
Author Archives: Donna W. Boykin
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As her keepers approached her habitat recently at the Dallas Zoo, 3-month-old Sumini woke up from her nap, ready to show off to her visitors. The baby Sumatran tiger ran to greet them, jumping into piles of leaves and somersaults in the hay to make sure she was the center of attention. Her legs – […]
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Ben Coster is competing with Coopendale Lucy in the Carcoar Working Dog Challenge. A PROMISE of large sums of money attracted Australia’s top working dog trainers and breeders to the Central Tablelands Livestock Exchange’s first working dog challenge in Carcoar. The three-day challenge with a total prize of $ 20,000 – the highest in Australia […]
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Past, present and future service dogs for veterans with PTSD or mobility issues. Clockwise from back left: Moxie, Libby, Belle, Indy, Abigail, Ranger, Doug and Eleanor. Photo provided OXFORD – This year’s Christmas Parade is going to the dogs, and VFW 9787 Auxiliary Lorraine Hill couldn’t be happier. That’s because Christy Gardner of Oxford, a […]
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Melanie Garcia has been reunited with her dog, Otis, after surviving a car crash that killed her partner. Screenshot of segment KOB 4 A New Mexico woman found a silver lining during a dark time when she was reunited with her dog after her partner died in a car crash. Melanie Garcia and her longtime […]
Dog Breeding
How to Watch the 2021 National Dog Show on Thanksgiving: Time, TV Show, Live Stream, and Past Winners
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The 2021 National Dog Show returns this Thursday to continue a 20-year Thanksgiving tradition. The national dog show began in 1879 and has been held annually since 1933, including in 2020, when most events did not happen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s dog show is at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. […]
Puppy Mill
More than 300 Samoyeds were seized from an Iowa puppy mill in 2018. Where are they now? | Local News
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Izzy Now at his home in California, adopted by the Samoyed Rescue of Southern California. Izzy’s adopter was a volunteer for SRSC when she instantly bonded with a newly arrived puppy rescued from the White Fire Kennel in Iowa, one of a batch of Samoyeds sent to the California group to find homes magnets. “When […]
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DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO) – End of October more than 500 dogs and puppies have been taken from Iowa breeder due to horrible conditions. Since then, around 200 dogs have remained in the area in shelters and the remaining puppies have been transferred to other shelters in neighboring states. Animal Rescue League director of animal […]
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MILL STREAM – When 14-year-old Julia Mickle was diagnosed with epilepsy in November 2018, she and her parents began a journey of treatment options to control her seizures. Of all the drugs, it turns out that a dog named Zoe can be the best of all. Zoe, a 2 year old yellow Labrador, is a […]
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Hundreds of dogs and cats have made their home on San Cristobal Island, alongside the iconic blue-footed boobies and sea lions of the Galapagos Archipelago. But until Dr Tom Parker arrived in early November, there was no year-round veterinary clinic for pet owners in the community, which is nearly 800 miles from the capital of […]