Let’s help get Dogster Matthew to his new home.

Joy

Is there a way you could help us out by writing this up the the Dogster Blog?

We need as much coverage and possible to get sweet Matthew home.

Thanks!

Wendy Lutge and Bowie

Here’s what it says in the Forums:

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Thanks to Kemmy, Bella Bean’s furmom, for barking in about this great holiday challenge to us all! While Poncho initially issued this challenge in the Plus threads I think its good enough for all of us to take it on! In fact, if you’re not a Pluser and want to post an activity you’ve done in response to this challenge, please feel free to post it in the Dog Blog Bark Out Group Forum.

Kemmy wrote:
My pal Poncho Has started a thread Challange that I think deserves as much spotlight as it possibly can get… Im taking the challange and you can to! Get the word out and do something that will bring a little happiness to a homeless animal.

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Its for the furry Dogsters amongst us! Really!

Thanks to the fun folks at Bowzer.biz, the world’s first doggy ezine, for this product!

BTW, if you love entertaining doggy doings (and I don’t mean the odiferous kind) then check out Bowzer.biz. Once you subscribe, they send you one cute article a day!

Oh My Dog!

Now we’ve heard everything.

Smelly dogs can be really smelly with a few spritzes of dog perfume by Oh My Dog!

It doesn’t smell like dog. No. This is perfume for dogs to wear. Oh la la.

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Between sniffing out cancer, keeping away burglers and saving families from house fires, dogs are often better than home alarms! It looks like the best thing you can do to protect yourself and your family to is have a great relationship with at least one dog!

Dog Who Smelled Cancer

FOX6 Family Health BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC-TV)— A Bernese Mountain dog is credited with saving the life of 59 year-old Claire Edwards.

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Ken Foster, author of a number of books including The Dogs Who Found Me, is teaming up with Pit Bull Rescue Center. They will be selling signed copies of The Dogs Who Found Me on their website with 50% of the proceeds going to their work with pit bull rescue groups across the country. Orders must be placed by 12/10 to assure holiday delivery.

What a great gift for that dog lover on your list!

BTW, Brando (shown here), one of Ken’s pack, is also a Dogster! Didn’t I tell you the best people of all breeds are Dogsters?

Follow this link to order a copy from PBRC.

Imagine someone actually keeping a record on bad owners? What will they think of next?

This article ran on IOL.

Bad dogs face rap on paws

Misbehaving dogs in Belgium could find themselves with a “criminal record” under a new parliamentary proposal, with offenders facing anything from a rap on the paws to the death penalty, according to a newspaper report on Sunday.

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Thanks to LATimes.com for this news! This event sounds like a definite to-do for any fun-loving Los Angeles area Dogsters!

Showbiz 7’s: Why celebs love dogs
An animal rescue pro gives his reasons.
By Deborah Netburn, Times Staff Writer

Marc Rosen is one of those seasoned Hollywood professionals. He’s currently an executive producer at Heyday Films, a division of Warner Brothers, where he worked on “Harry Potter” and “Threshold.” Before that he ran Landscape Films and Lynda Obst Productions where he worked on “How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days” and “The Siege.” He is also a seasoned animal rescuer having fostered over 200 animals in the last several years. On December 1st he is sponsoring Operation Doggy Drop, a benefit for the animals that made it through Katrina. Several B-list celebrities have already RSVPd including Jessica Biel, Christina Applegate, Peter Dinklage and Sinbad, which led us to pose the question: Why do celebrities love dogs?

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Isn’t it interesting that the insurance firms say they should be able to charge homeowners more for having dogs yet it is now proven that 1) dogs are one of the best security alarms and protections that anyone can have and 2) having dogs prolongs healthy life! So if insurance companies can charge us more for having dogs then they should also have to charge doglovers less on health and life insurance.

Bottom line — it looks like the insurance companies are just looking for ways to make up on their horrendous losses from Katrina and bad investing!

This article comes from the StarTribune.com.

Dog’s breed may drive up insurance cost

Insurers say they’re looking out for liability in dog attacks; owners say it’s discrimination.
Thomas Lee, Star Tribune

Benefits and risks for ‘off-shifting’ families
Rita is known by her foster owners as a “velcro dog,” a pet that needs to be near people 24/7. She loves children, plays tug of war, and lounges on the couch all day.

Beth DeLaForest, a director for A Rotta Love Plus rescue group in Minneapolis, says Rita would make a perfect apartment dog. But she can’t find an owner for Rita, who has been with the group for a year now.

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I’ll be checking this out! And good luck to all the Dogsters competing in this Championship!

AKC/Eukanuba National Championship wrote:
The AKC/Eukanuba National Championship is the largest, most respected annual dog show in the United States and this year it will take place in Long Beach,California at the Long Beach Convention Center on Saturday, December 2nd and Sunday, December 3rd, 2006. The show will air live on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel on both the 2nd and 3rd from 8-11 PM ET/PT.

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It seems that Tennessee (or at least parts of the state) may be years behind other states in handling stray dog issues. This article ran on The Tennesseean.com.

As counties grow, so does stray-dog problem
Wilson, Sumner animal-control services limited

By NATALIA MIELCZAREK
Staff Writer

Of an estimated 38,000 households in Wilson County last year, close to 14,000 owned a dog.

The number has been steadily climbing as more people move in, bringing their pets. Scores of pups end up on streets, lost or abandoned. If they get picked up by a county animal-control officer and have a known owner, they have five days to be brought home. If they are not known to have an owner, they get three days.

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