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✦ To provide helpful, vital and fun information to pet owners.
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✦ To celebrate the bond between us and our pets.
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✦ To recognize the many gifts we receive from our pets in turn.
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✦ And to raise awareness of spaying and neutering programs as a means to decrease the number of pets euthanized at shelters each year.
Kids get
close-up view of reptiles.
Pet news
Will your pet be safe this Halloween?
H1N1 and your pets.
Ad campaign hopes to dispel myths about shelter animals.
Pets on Twitter raise money for good causes.
Zhu Zhu hamster toys may be big this holiday season.
Pets can help keep the doctor away.
Hospice helps
pets, too.
Michael Vick speaks out against dog-fighting.
Dog flu very contagious for canines.
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Panhandle Equine Rescue holds first adoption.
Horse adoption
Miss Dixie works at store..
Working dogs
Gabby, almost a year old, weighs 117 pounds.
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Billboards, like this one, are now on display around Pensacola, courtesy of Ashley Paige's Ruff Houzen Animal Rescue.
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Cats taking over
the bedroom
To send a question to Daisy & Sweet Pea, just e-mail MyPet Gazette.com and label “Daisy & Sweet Pea.”
Dear Daisy & Sweet Pea:
I don't know if you know much about
cats, but I need help. I know it's common
for cats to sleep on their owners' beds -- mine
have for years. But it may be getting out of hand.
Storm shelter
Escambia County gets a pet-friendly emergency shelter.
"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
Unknown
When we decide to turn in for the night, our cats are there already, settled in in their favorite spots, and they don't like to move. What should I do?
Signed,
Sleepless in Seattle
From Daisy: It's perfectly logical that your cats want to sleep on your bed -- it's where you are, it smells like you, and they feel safe there. You like them there because they make you happy, so you've just got to find a way to make it work. I suggest maybe shutting the door to your bedroom hours before you turn in. That way, the cats will enter the room when you do so they won't have time to get settled. If that doesn't work, just pick them up and move them when you need to -- they won't mind as long as you let them stay.
From Sweet Pea: I prefer to sleep in my own bed -- my people snore.
Read more about:
Escambia County considers efforts to pass anti-tethering ordinance
From the expert:
Animal Planet's Victoria Stilwell speaks out against chaining
Help end fox pens in Florida! Read more about the issue here
or visit www.EndTheHunt.com
The panel
The Escambia County Advisory Committee for Animal Services will meet monthly and welcome public comment for the first 30 minutes of each meeting.
Meeting Nov. 17
What: Advisory Committee for Animal Services meeting.
When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Where: Miller Recreation Center, 2819 N. Miller Street, Pensacola.
Details
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✦ Read the resolution establishing the committee.
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✦ Read about first meeting in August.
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✦ Read about September meeting.
On next Animal Advisory Meeting Agenda: Anti-tethering ordinance
Has there ever been a more beautiful Tinkerbelle than Sally Joe? Dressed to impressed by mom Sherrie Dawes, who designed her costume, Sally Joe placed second place in the morning costume contest. (Photos by Laura Catterton)
Goodbye, Nimitz
Submitted by Lynne Kueck, lkueck@hotmail.com
Oct. 10, 2009
he greatest dog that ever lived passed away today.
She lived for over 12 years. Adopted at age 4 months solely to be a pet and companion she became her human’s self appointed guardian.
She had a very affable nature, going along with whatever indignities her owner put upon her with grace and dignity including wearing sunglasses, goggles and feathered boas.
Though gentle she could be and was fiercely protective, which she made clear on many occasions to people that approached her human more closely than she approved. She was judicious with her protectiveness though and never bit anyone choosing instead to give ample warnings which fortunately were always heeded. Her bite most certainly would have been worse than her bark.
Nimitz Kueck
March 1, 1997- October 10, 2009
She was extremely smart and she knew it. She was gorgeous too and had a regal and superior posture at times which was well deserved. In Okinawa, she was referred to as “Sagoi” literally thousands of times during her four years of walks through the park. Sagoi means “magnificent.”
She wanted nothing more than to be by her human’s side to keep an eye on her and make sure she was safe wherever she was, wherever she went, whatever time of day or season. Her devotion to her human was extraordinary and unwaning. She extended her devotions to her Aunt Peggy whom she became equally devoted to. The worst six months of her life was when her human went to Iraq. Ever vigilant, she spotted her owner upon her return in the airport parking lot from 40 yards away. It was the happiest day of her life.
She loved car rides and romps in the woods. She especially loved the beach, trips to Baja and visiting her Uncle Don in the Mojave Desert where she chased kangeroo rats and rabbits until exhaustion. She was also a well-traveled dog and got to swim in the East China Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Sea of Cortez, and both sides of the Pacific Ocean. She also loved and appreciated attention.
While she enjoyed chasing a cat or two (and squirrels and rabbits) she once rescued two abandoned kittens; softly picking one up in her mouth and delivering it to her human. She looked over both of them with motherly devotion until they were adopted.
Weakened by diabetes for the past two years she remained dedicated and devoted. She continued her role as the alpha dog of the pack and remained dedicated to looking out for the well being of her human.
She became sick last night and was taken to the vet this morning. From there she was referred to the emergency vet where X-rays revealed she had a greatly enlarged spleen. She was diagnosed with a spleenic tumor and surgery was scheduled immediately. Her equally devoted human and her Aunt Peggy spent a few hours with her while she was stabilized for surgery. Her heart stopped in surgery but she was successfully resuscitated. The tumor proved, however, to be too much, her heart stopped again during surgery and she passed this evening.
Her owner is distraught as expected. A dog of this caliber does not leave this world unmourned.
The greatest dog that ever lived, passed away today.
T
Have I got a pet for you!!
More pets lookin' for love
Left: Flower -- a loveable mixed breed
Above: Blue, a 10-week-old Tabby with blue eyes.
Newt, an 8-month-old Lab-chow mix.
Sibling kitties Sam and Misty
Break the chain... Break the chain...Break the chain...Break the chain...Break the chain...Break the chain...
Break the chain... Break the chain...Break the chain...Break the chain...Break the chain...Break the chain...
How do you feel about dogs that live their lives at the end of a chain?
Yeah, I hate it, too.
So join me at the Escambia County Advisory Committee for Animal Services
at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17,
at Miller Recreation Center, 2917 N. Miller Street, Pensacola.
On the agenda ...... an anti-chaining ordinance.
Gunther, a 7-month-old Rottweiler, enjoyed entertaining customers at Petsmart on Saturday during the Junior Humane Society pet adoption.
New families met each other on Saturday. Read more about them
Say hello to Gunther. Gunther is a 7-month-old Rottweiler who is as layed back, mellow and calm as any dog you've ever met. In fact, he was a one-dog conversation piece at Petsmart on Saturday near the checkout. Why? He was lying on his back, paws in the air, just about all afternoon. His 2-year-old Rottie mom, Sergie, also looking for a new home, just watched from the crowd. "That's my boy," her smile seemed to say.
