Animal Housetag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog/1842008-08-29T21:21:11ZDenise Flaim's award-winning blog gives news and advice on all things furry, feathered and scaled. Movable Type 3.36Save-a-Pet benefit on Sept. 9tag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1242152008-08-29T21:16:44Z2008-08-29T21:21:11ZEarlier this month, Dori Scofield, founder of Save-a-Pet, returned home with her family to find her house burned down and her companion animals -- four cats and five dogs, rescues all -- dead To ensure that no animal in her...Denise Flaim
Danfords Hotel & Marina. Donations is $50.
Visit www.saveapetli.org.
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Vivi -- nottag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1229442008-08-25T17:16:43Z2008-09-04T18:16:26ZBonnie Folz provides this explanation on the hoped-for Vivi sighting at JFK: It has been confirmed that the dog seen being loaded into the cargo van at Terminal 8 on Tuesday was not Vivi, but a greyhound owned by one...Denise Flaim
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Vivi sighting at JFK?tag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1225732008-08-23T03:34:35Z2008-08-23T03:36:19ZTo good to be true? Vivi search coordinator Bonnie Folz sends this email: I got an unconfirmed sighting call on Tuesday night. A cab driver who works the airport claims he watched a man walk Vivi out of Terminal 8,...Denise Flaim
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Vivi Redux - Help Find Jeddahtag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1216792008-08-19T18:32:32Z2008-08-19T18:42:44Z The many dog lovers who came together and bonded over a little lost show dog named Vivi are always on the lookout for similar stories. If Westminster's famously wayward whippet did not have a happy ending (at least as...Denise Flaim
The many dog lovers who came together and bonded over a little lost show dog named Vivi are always on the lookout for similar stories. If Westminster's famously wayward whippet did not have a happy ending (at least as far as we know), then perhaps someone else's dog can.
The most recent lost dog, Jeddah, has a story eerily similar to Vivi's. She was lost at Washington's Dulles Airport on July 10. The 4-year-old dog, who looks similar to a Pharaoh or Ibizan hound, was being flown to Saudi Arabia to accompany her soldier-owner on his year-long Middle East assignment. She never made it on to the United Airlines flight.
Like Vivi, Jeddah's story has occasioned much media coverage. Sightings are being called in every day. And her owners have not given up hope.
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Pennsylvania puppymiller shoots 80 dogstag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1216522008-08-19T16:50:21Z2008-09-04T18:11:34ZMissouri gets all the press for being the nation's main puppymilling state, but Pennsylvania has its share, too. The ugly reality of what happens when dogs are treated as livestock and not family companions hit the news recently when a...Denise Flaim
Missouri gets all the press for being the nation's main puppymilling state, but Pennsylvania has its share, too.
The ugly reality of what happens when dogs are treated as livestock and not family companions hit the news recently when a Berks County commercial breeder decided to shoot 80 of his dogs rather than have them examined and treated by a veterinarian.
A vigil was held last week outside the property, and the governor has called for legislation making it illegal for anyone than a veterinarian to perform euthanasia.
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Happy 100, Doberman Pinscher!tag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1216422008-08-19T16:23:22Z2008-08-19T16:32:39Z The Doberman Pinscher Club of America is celebrating the centennial of the breed in the United States this year. If you aren't going to be caravaning to Topeka Kansas to attend the club's 83rd Specialty Show or its Centenntial...Denise Flaim
The Doberman Pinscher Club of America is celebrating the centennial of the breed in the United States this year.
If you aren't going to be caravaning to Topeka Kansas to attend the club's 83rd Specialty Show or its Centenntial Event in October, you can meander on the club web site, www.dpca.org. There, you'll find a tribute to the Doberman's role as a trusted military and search and rescue dog.
"While the breed has been much maligned over the years, its 100-year history and heritage of helping people in need flies under the radar. We would like to change that," says the DPCA in a press release.
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A sad week for local rescuerstag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1190732008-08-07T18:20:46Z2008-08-07T18:35:28ZIt hasn't been a good week for Long Island rescuers. On Tuesday, Dori Scofield, founder of Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue in Port Jefferson, lost 11 of her personal animals -- seven dogs and four cats -- to a house fire. Dori,...Denise Flaim
Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue in Port Jefferson, lost 11 of her personal animals -- seven dogs and four cats -- to a house fire. Dori, her husband and their four children were not home at the time.
And Lab rescuers across the country are mourning over the news that Sandee Nastasi, founder of Long Island Labrador Retriever Rescue, lost her battle with cancer recently. ]]>
Verizon turns tail on pit-bull adstag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1177742008-08-01T15:14:49Z2008-08-02T17:07:08ZVerizon heard them now. A week after saying it would continue to run a television ad depicting two chained pit bulls lunging at the owner of a LG Dare phone, Verizon Wireless has yanked the offending ads. A piece in...Denise Flaim
a television ad depicting two chained pit bulls lunging at the owner of a LG Dare phone, Verizon Wireless has yanked the offending ads.
A piece in Ad Age points to the influence of special-interest groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in effecting the turnaround.
But irate pit-bull owners were also a grass-roots force in the opposition, complaining that -- yet again -- their human-friendly breed was being depicted as a savage junkyard dog. ]]>
Rescued Afghan hounds on Long Islandtag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1175352008-07-31T16:56:13Z2008-08-02T17:08:56ZJoanne Anderson of Babylon has been following up on the seven Afghan-hound rescues that were brought to Long Island after being seized with 60 others from a New Mexico hoarder. Scroll down for some photos of them receiving much-needed veterinary...Denise Flaim
Joanne reports that the "groomathon" began the next night, headed up by local fancier and groomer Anna Stromberg.
"We discovered that Velveeta served as a pacifier for stressed out sweeties," she writes in an e-mail. "The girls, Jane and Charlotte, were most matted ... and most traumatized by the ordeal .... Frost, Mr. Congeniality, really did not like having his ears shaved....acted like the bucking bronco. Anna always has Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, etc..."
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Rachael Ray finds four-legged markettag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1167602008-07-28T18:19:36Z2008-08-02T17:10:50ZHow do dogs say “delish”? Inspired by the home-cooked meals she makes for her pit bull Isaboo, ubiquitous celeb chef Rachael Ray is launching a Nutrish for Pets line of dog food. (A kitty version is in the works.) All...Denise Flaim
Nutrish for Pets line of dog food. (A kitty version is in the works.)
All proceeds of the sales are slated for her Rachael’s Rescue group. Among the slated recipients: Spirit, a terrier-mix who made the news recently when he was brutally beaten at the U.S.-Mexico border. Her Web site, rachaelsrescue.org also features recipes that can be shared with your pooch, including Pumpkin Barley with Turkey and Oatmeal with 'Nanas and PB.
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Thumbs down for verizontag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1155312008-07-22T18:29:39Z2008-08-02T17:11:46Z Can you hear me now? Hopefully, Verizon is heeding the tsunami of complaints generated by its unfortunate commercials depicting two raging pit bulls lunging at a man trying to retrieve his LG Dare phone. The Humane Society of the...Denise Flaim
Can you hear me now?
Hopefully, Verizon is heeding the tsunami of complaints generated by its unfortunate commercials depicting two raging pit bulls lunging at a man trying to retrieve his LG Dare phone.
The Humane Society of the United States has also stepped in to ask the phone company to pull the 30-second spots -- so far, to no avail.]]>
Thumbs Up For Gintag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1155282008-07-22T18:18:55Z2008-07-22T18:28:29ZNow here's a way to channel that prodigious border-collie energy: Gin, one of those relentless herders, performs with her human Kate on the second season of "Britain's Got Talent." Who says Simon Cowell is congenitally cantankerous?...Denise Flaim
border-collie energy: Gin, one of those relentless herders, performs with her human Kate on the second season of "Britain's Got Talent." Who says Simon Cowell is congenitally cantankerous?]]>
Afghan hound rescuetag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1153292008-07-21T20:34:07Z2008-07-21T20:48:06Z Read it . And watch it. And weep. Last week, authorities in San Miguel, New Mexico, removed 67 Afghan hounds from a hoarder's home. The Afghan Hound Club of America pitched in with a countrywide rescue effort to find...Denise Flaim
Read it . And watch it. And weep.
Last week, authorities in San Miguel, New Mexico, removed 67 Afghan hounds from a hoarder's home. The Afghan Hound Club of America pitched in with a countrywide rescue effort to find a home for the dozens of dogs, which were living in years' worth of filth and decay.
Unfortunately, 10 of the dogs have already died, some of parvovirus. Three of the female dogs are also reportedly pregnant.
Seven of these exotic Middle Eastern hounds have found their way to Long Island, where they await foster homes. Rescuers have named the traumatized and matted dogs after literary figures: Whitman, Frost, Edgar Afghan Poe, Cyrano, Dante, Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre.
Donations and additional foster homes are urgently needed.
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Christian the Liontag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1145632008-07-17T15:37:37Z2008-09-04T18:13:42ZIt's been bonking around the Internet for a while, but if you haven't caught the 30-something-year-old video of Christian the lion, bought by two Australian guys from a cage in, of all places, Harrod's, click here. It shows the footage...Denise Flaim
here. It shows the footage of their reunion with him in the wild, and a better case for anthropomorphism you will never find.
Beware, however, the snarky YouTube version that intersperses video of a lion attack with the Christian footage. Some people.]]>
Papal cat out of the bagtag:blogs.trb.com,2008:/news/local/flaim/blog//184.1143252008-07-16T16:04:55Z2008-07-16T17:01:43ZYou've heard of Catholic guilt, but this is stretching things some ... Apparently, pets are a no-no in the Vatican, a tradition that no one has really explained adequately. Now come press reports that Pope Benedict XVI -- an avowed...Denise Flaim
an avowed cat lover who fed strays before he was elevated to pontiff -- was loaned a gray kitty on his current Australian trip to help pass the time in the bush.
The pope's spokespeople have refused to confirm the story, and in the past have taken pains to point out that the only cats in the pontiff's Vatican apartment are made of ceramic. But some press reports express curiosity about whether he has spirited some cats therein.
The pope was the subject of a kitty tell-all, "Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI As Told By A Cat," an authorized biography of the Pope for young people approved by the Vatican.
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Joanne reports that the "groomathon" began the next night, headed up by local fancier and groomer Anna Stromberg.
"We discovered that Velveeta served as a pacifier for stressed out sweeties," she writes in an e-mail. "The girls, Jane and Charlotte, were most matted ... and most traumatized by the ordeal .... Frost, Mr. Congeniality, really did not like having his ears shaved....acted like the bucking bronco. Anna always has Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, etc..."
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