Brian Teta reveals his favorite pet tricks 

He also revealed he is teaching his own dog, a chocolate Lab named Cocoa, how to open a water bottle and drink from it herself, the Post said.
Source: www.earthtimes.org

Hospital’s popular dog therapy program ready for expansion 
Naperville resident Bob Jaynes will never forget the first animal-assisted therapy visit he received a few years ago when he was in Edward Hospital with heart problems.
Source: www.dailyherald.com

Pet Calendar 
SATURDAY ADOPTIONS 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: TVAR; Pleasanton Farmers Market, First and West Angela, Pleasanton; dogs/cats. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: VHS; Pet Extreme, 4500 Arroyo Vista Drive, Livermore; cats/dogs.
Source: www.contracostatimes.com

Pet finders unleashed It’s one cagey business for detectives who search for missing loved ones 

NADIA BOROWSKI SCOTT / Union-Tribune Landa Coldiron used her bloodhound Ellie Mae to help track down a missing Jack Russell terrier in Oceanside. Coldiron, who lives near Los Angeles, took the case through her pet detective agency. Pet finders unleashed Continued…

SATURDAY ADOPTIONS 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: TVAR; Pleasanton Farmers Market, First and West Angela, Pleasanton; dogs/cats. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: VHS; Pet Extreme, 4500 Arroyo Vista Drive, Livermore; cats/dogs. Continued…

THIS WEEK Continued…

Pet owners and pooches paraded the Jacksonville Fairgrounds this weekend in celebration of pampered pets everywhere. Continued…

By Justin Rudd 

Labradors are tops in Long Beach. The AKC recently released the top breeds according to their registration statistics for 2006. Find Out More…

Not long after surviving the shootout at the O.K. Corral, gunslinger Wyatt Earp moved from Tombstone, Arizona, to San Diego’s Stingaree district, which in the 1880s was full of saloons and brothels. A century later, the downtown neighborhood — redubbed the Gaslamp Quarter — had become a different sort of Wild West, notorious for topless bars, boarded-up buildings, and high crime levels. Find Out More…

Submit your organization’s meeting for immediate publication online at savannahnow.com/do/add_event or e-mail your meeting at least two weeks in advance to calendar@savannahnow.com or fax to 525-0796. Contact number must be listed. Community Meetings is printed Monday-Wednesday in the Accent section as space allows. For information, call 652-0310. To see more upcoming community meetings, visit … Find Out More…

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (UPI) — The producer of “Stupid Pet Tricks” on David Letterman’s New York show, Brian Teta, has tallied his favorite segments from the past 2 1/2 years. Find Out More…

Designed and dumped 

Amy Weldele was thrilled to find herself the owner of a genuine designer dog, list price $1,250, for a mere $117. “Friends tell me, Wow, you must have spent a lot of money, ” Weldele, of the Northwest Side, said of her Labradoodle. More…

As celebrities lead trend for crossbreeds there are too few pups to maintain traditional dogs. More…

THE Cardigan Welsh Corgi is one of Britain’s oldest and most faithful dogs but its survival is being threatened by a celebrity-led trend for new cross-breeds. More…

I was exhausted and on my way home from Phoenix, where I participated in a protest against Focus on the Familys ex-gay Love Won Out Conference. One of the few remaining joys of flying these days is reading without all of the earthly distractions, such as cell phones and e-mail. More…

Dog and horse shows under threat from EU

Daily Telegraph - dog breeders, people who exhibit pets at shows and even competing horse riders could fall foul of EU rules governing the Mr Baldry, whose pug Torres was the 2005 winner of the Westminster dog of the Year, an annual contest run by the dogs Continued

Dog and horse shows under threat from EU

Daily Telegraph - Mr Baldry, whose pug Torres was the 2005 winner of the Westminster dog of the Year, an annual contest run by the dogs Trust We are seeking assurances from the department that the term ‘professional breeder’ does not apply to responsible dog breeders
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The Modern Kennel Conundrum
New York Times - Many traditionalists see mixing breeds as somehow irresponsible in and of itself. As one pug breeder with a two-time, No. 1 show bitch to her credit told me: There was only one really perfect thing on the face of this earth, and he was crucified
Source: www.nytimes.com

Troubled animals find way to her home

Myrtle Beach Online - He had Beagle puppies and gave me one.” She experienced a wonderful reality then - some people had pets to spare, and the spares Gracie, an extra pudgy Chinese pug who jiggles like a manatee when she walks, gets along fine with Vito, an adopted Continued

PRWeb - gala in honor of City Critters, a nonprofit rescue and welfare organization, and in memory of Malcolm, a well loved pug We’re kicking off the “General Store” with Champion Labrador Retriever Christmas puppies from HuntersCreek Retrievers; perfect Continued

Bellingham Herald - puppies teethe and like to chew, so give them positive things to chew on, such as Nylabones, Kongs and compressed rawhide. Designer dogs, such as poodle mixes and the beagle-pug mix the puggle are increasing in popularity, but if your Continued

Salon - There was only one really perfect thing on the face of this earth, and he was crucified. To us, the pug is pure.” — An anonymous pug breeder, quoted in the NYT Magazine’s piece on the new designer puppies. Continued

Daily Telegraph - Mr Baldry, whose pug Torres was the 2005 winner of the Westminster dog of the Year, an annual contest run by the dogs Trust professional breeder’ does not apply to responsible dog breeders but to those intensive volume breeders who transport puppies Continued

Defamer - We don’t know how Friedman neglected to mention the cardboard box full of abandoned puppies by the club’s entrance, from which two that night, then left a check for $6 million made out to the ASPCA pinned to the collar of the poor, adorable pug she Continued