All posts tagged "Pets"

Kristi Noem’s new book, in which the South Dakota governor and Donald Trump vice presidential aspirant describes why she killed her 14-month-old dog, has sparked widespread outrage.

But to the California Republican Party, reading about how Noem shot Cricket — her family’s wirehair pointer — is a perk.

The book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, is included with every purchase of a ticket for a lunch banquet May 18 in Burlingame, Calif., during the California GOP Convention....

Dogs can make us happy, that's why many of us have one. But besides being a source of companionship and joy, they can also help to reduce our stress levels and improve our ability to concentrate and be creative, a new study by researchers at Seoul's Konkuk University suggests. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the researchers monitored the brain activity of 30 healthy adults while engaged in different activities with a dog, namely "meeting, playing, feeding, massaging, grooming, photographing, hugging, and walking." They found that different types of interactions had different effects on the......

A Cowboy cat? Hotdog dog? Dressing up your pet for Halloween might seem like a cute idea but if you care at all about your furry friend, please don't put them in a costume, animal rights experts say. "Costumes not only restrict the animals' freedom of movement, but also their ability to communicate," says Karina Omelyanowskaya from the German animal welfare organisation Four Paws. Dogs communicate mainly through their tails and ears, but if the costume covers these body parts, that no longer works properly, creating a distressing situation for the animal, according to the expert. Animal rights......

More than 5,300 employees of the U.S. Postal Service were attacked by dogs while delivering mail in 2022, the agency said. The number represented a slight drop from 2021 when more than 5,400, and 2020 when more than 5,800 were attacked. Dog bites remain one of the chief occupational hazards for letter carriers. Dog bites can lead to a number of other health effects, including dangerous infections. The figures were announced as part of the agency’s annual National Dog Bite Awareness Week public service campaign, which runs from June 4 to June 10. “When letter carriers deliver mail in our commun......

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 14-year-old beagle is searching for a new home after it was surrendered recently at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The dog, Baby Girl, was left at the airport because the crate she was in would not fit under her then-owner's seat on the plane, the former owner, who did not want to be identified, told WSOC. Since she didn’t have the money to pay cargo-transport fees, Baby Girl’s then-owner left her with FurBabies Animal Rescue, a Matthews nonprofit that works to find homes for abandoned, stray and neglected dogs. Many airlines do not allow larger pets to travel as ......

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The scene is always heartbreaking – a sobbing pet owner, cradling a beloved animal companion, comes into an animal shelter to surrender a pet. But it’s happening every day now at some shelters, where the number of surrendered dogs and cats has doubled. The numbers are even higher for rabbits. This isn’t the long-anticipated, never materialized COVID bounce that predicted the record number of pandemic-era adoptions would fall apart once people returned to the office or resumed regular life. Most surrenders, says Oakland Animal Shelter director Ann Dunn, stem more from the rap......