Zippy — and snippy. Is it just me, or are they singing “spaded”? Plus an extra song, encouraging volunteerism. Both are brought to you by Animal Friends of Pittsburgh, who got themselves an awesome domain name: ThinkOutsideTheCage.org. So did these make you smile — or at least hum? Then click here and vote for me…
News You Can’t Use: Toe-Eating Terriers & Tortured Kittens
The Toe-Eating Terrier Sometimes my email inbox seems booby-trapped. A couple of weeks ago, I got a press release with this subject line: Cautionary Tale for People with Diabetes: Dog Consumed Part of a Sleeping Patient’s Toe, Leading to Amputation Among the details that followed: In a case study that illustrates the need for people…
The First National Dog Party Day
Many of you probably know that today is Take Your Dog to Work Day, introduced in 1999 by Pet Sitters International. It’s not observed in our household, since Frankie gets to supervise my work flow year round. But as I discovered when I tried to make plans to get together in San Diego with my…
Found Animals: Megabucks – and a Mission
What would you do if you had a LOT of money and wanted to do good? If you’re reading this blog, odds are it has something to do with helping animals…maybe something grand like preventing the senseless killing of healthy animals by stemming pet overpopulation. All over the world. That’s what a billionaire surgeon, Dr.…
Vet School Helps Pet Paralyzed in Joplin Tornado
No question, we need feel good stories. And fast. I just got one, via press release, about a wonderful thing the University of Missouri Veterinary Teaching Hospital did. So I’ll share it, post haste,* without spending hours trying to blog about it. MU Veterinary Team Helps Dog Paralyzed in Tornado Walk Again from MU News…
Austin Humane’s Awesome Ad Campaign
As regulars to this blog know, I run two series of pet-related public service announcements, one called Spay & Neuter with a Smile, the other Pet Adoption Videos That Don’t Make Me Want to Kill Myself. Both are inspired by my feeling that serious messages are often best conveyed with humor. Not everyone agrees and…
Spay & Neuter with a Smile, #7
Today I’m excited to present two special entries in my ongoing series of upbeat videos with a spay and neuter message, both featuring video star Dexter of Dexter’s Ruff Life. Earlier this year, Dexter and Steve of Gangs of New Yorkie duked it out on this blog in the Great Yorkie Bark-Off. Although they were…
Spay & Neuter with a Smile #6
Who knew PETA had a sense of humor — or one that I could relate to? Credit where it’s due.
Pet Adoption Videos That Don’t Make Me Want to Kill Myself, #8
I wasn’t sure how I felt about these two videos, both from the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They didn’t make me want to kill myself, but they did kind of weird me out with their notion of dogs as substitute humans. I also thought the first was vaguely homophobic…
Spay & Neuter with a Smile, #5
A surprising number of people, even educated ones, think that neutering changes the personality of a pet. The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals confronts this stereotype with their trademark sense of humor in this PSA. I just love the sex kitten cameos.