This should teach us all that its not about size, its about talent. Go Tank!!!

Thanks to the Sacramento Bee for this article.

Tiny dog leads police to suspect in hiding

By Art Campos

Chris and Wendy Anderson have a crime fighter in their north Auburn home, and he’s no bigger than 10 inches tall and 3 1/2 pounds.

Tank, a Chihuahua-Pomeranian mix, is credited by sheriff’s deputies with flushing out a fleeing suspect who had been in a stolen minivan and was hiding under a motor home nearby.

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Dogsters are still celebrating Christmas in parts of the world. Here’s beautiful tearjerker for them.

Thanks to Buddy for barking this in!

Martha’s Christmas Miracle

Martha was sitting in her living room watching television this Christmas Eve, alone as she had been for the last five years. All of her children had married and moved to the four corners of the nation, her youngest, a surgery resident at the Vet School across the state had planned on coming home, but had been assigned to work the emergency clinic and couldn’t find a replacement. Martha told herself that having Sally working to help the sick and injured animals this Christmas Eve was worth being alone, besides, Sally would be driving over for Christmas dinner the next afternoon.

All the animals had been fed and now were safely in either the kennel building or lazily laying around the house. Martha had to stop to think how many dogs she had at her house this Christmas; she sighed when she realized there were 16. She did rescue and the number of dogs was always changing with some dogs being adopted, and new abandoned dogs coming in. Feeling overwhelmed by the number of dogs she had and all the dogs still left in shelters to die because there was no room for them in rescue, Martha seriously wondered if she should stop working rescue. If she didn’t have all these dogs, she could have flown to any of her other children’s homes for the holidays to be with family. Besides, the heartbreak of seeing each dog in such need was beginning to really weigh on her.

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Happy New Year!!!!

While I’m always glad to celebrate a new year (heck, I’d celebrate two or three a year given the chance) the one thing I HATE is a fireworks display. I’m not even too keen on a professional display. They’re dangerous and loud. And if they bother me, what do they do to our furfriends who don’t know what’s going on?

Dogs and other animals around the world are terrorized by fireworks. Here’s an excellent article from the Trinidad and Tobago Express about the damage these expensive noisemakers cause our furfriends.

Fireworks 101
What to do to protect your dogs

Ian Prescott

Thursday, August 30th 2007

Firework displays and celebrations bring confusion, anxiety and fear into the lives of animals, causing many to run away from their homes in an effort to escape the frightening detonations.

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Thanks to the Sunbear Squad for this tip!

Watch and listen for Christmas kittens and puppies that are kept outdoors in bad weather, under porches or tied to trees. Call the authorities.

What a lovely surprize! Not to be negative, but it sounds like Julie was stolen and finally got away.

Thanks to the HeraldSun.com.au for this article.

Lost dog found 320km from home, four years later
December 31, 2007

A LITTLE dog lost from Glen Iris has been found 320km from home more than four years after she disappeared.

The unexpected return of maltese terrier Jule makes it the second time in her life she has been a Christmas surprise for owner Rose Flanagan.

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The holiday season is still with us and here’s a wonderful piece from Kathy Pippig Harris, furmom to the ever-loving Tawny, Clementine, Dunkin Clyde, and others.

BTW, keep an eye on this writer, Kathy promises to have some real staying power and I expect we’ll be hearing much more from her in the future!

Through Tear Washed Eyes

It was the weekend after Thanksgiving and Louise walked her black-and-tan Cocker mix through the hilly woods of her property out back. It was a cool morning with wispy fog trailing over the grass and threading through the trees.

Before they left the house, Louise put a yellow jacket on her furry companion. Her fur girl’s name was Daisy and she didn’t take well to the cold. Louise liked the bright color because it made spotting Daisy easier if she chased a ball into the nearby brush and trees.

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Thanks to the StarTribune.com for this article.

Dog bucks the stereotype

Ruby takes her love to senior homes and has taken a turn on the stage, all part of her owners’ campaign to try to convince people that pit bulls aren’t innately bad.

By PAT PHEIFER, Star Tribune

It took a few minutes for Herb Isakson, 81, to smile as he sat in the hobby room at Croixdale with about a dozen other senior citizens last week. But his face split into a huge grin when Ruby crawled into his lap and snuggled in.

Ruby is a pit bull. She also is a certified therapy dog.

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A marvelous young man! I wish I could have met him. My sympathies to his family, including the furbabies.

All you Rainbow Bridge Dogsters and Catsters, please look for Ashley and welcome him!

Thanks to the nzherald.co.nz for this article.

The boy who gave his life for a dog
December 30, 2007
By Robyn Langwell

Ashley Atofu Patai-Vaisigano was a good boy who was never afraid to do the right thing. In the end it cost him his life.

The handsome, 15-year-old Hawke’s Bay junior rep basketballer was spending a rare week away from his Napier family, working in Taupo with a friend, when he drowned in the Waikato River while trying to save a dog he thought was in distress.

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Now here’s a DNA test that looks very useful. Do you want to know if your furbaby harbors some kind of genetic timebomb? You can use Pawsitive I.D. to find out for sure.

If you’ve used this product, please bark in to tell us all how well it works.

Thanks to PetGadget for this product.

Pawsitive I.D.™ is a DNA testing kit for dogs & cats. We provide a fast, easy, do-it-at-home DNA test kit that enables you to test for dozens of inherent, genetic diseases and obtain your pet’s unique DNA fingerprint.

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Thanks to Sify News for this article.

Putin wants to buy GPS device for his dog
Thursday, 27 December , 2007

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his desire to buy for his pet dog a device linked to the Russian navigation satellite device Glonass.

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