Working pet ‘parents’ seek places that will watch pooches

Lansing State Journal - Not a day goes by without Sarah Seguin considering her two dogs, a pug and black Labrador retriever. She can spend nine to 10 hours away from the pooches because she has to commute from her Shiawassee County home to her job at the Michigan Supreme
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dogs displaced by California fires come to Loveland
Coloradoan - Many of the dogs, like Layla, the year-old boxer who lived in Pasadena with her owner and a pug, were given up not by choice but by necessity. When Layla’s owner lost her house and could only afford a studio apartment where big dogs were not allowed
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Hazel Ann helps heal stroke victim
Union - The group “rescues” hundreds of dogs from the county animal shelter each year and finds foster and permanent homes for the animals. “My little pug was found wandering, abandoned. Nobody claimed her,” June Palmer said. Not every word John Palmer says
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Coddle your critters: Think outside the box when it comes to gifts for
Las Cruces Sun-News - Smart” toys to entertain the intellectual dogs and other bright critters on your list. Stylish sweaters for your ferret or a Joey were thinking outside the traditional gift box as they shopped in the cat section at PetSmart with their tiny new pug
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Orphan pets crowd shelter, need homes
Syracuse Post-Standard - Wanderers Rest has taken in a higher number of purebred dogs in recent months, due to the increasing popularity of designer dogs like cockapoos, puggles (beagle and pug mix) and others. But unlike other shelters in the region, Wanderers Rest allows
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Pet smarts

Muscatine Journal - WEST LIBERTY, Iowa The dogs were trying to take their owners for a walk Thursday at the Muscatine County Fair 4-H Pet Show Sarah Myers, 11, a member of the Homegrown Helpers 4-H club, cuddled with her pug puppy, Captain Jack. Myers said the Continued

Newark Star-Ledger - Miami, a 3-year-old pug, sits in front of a small bar, her big saucer eyes showing just a touch of performance anxiety. The students, all teenagers with a diagnosis on the autism spectrum, are learning how to control their dogs, in turn getting Continued

Coloradoan - Many of the dogs, like Layla, the year-old boxer who lived in Pasadena with her owner and a pug, were given up not by choice but by necessity. When Layla’s owner lost her house and could only afford a studio apartment where big dogs were not allowed Continued

Pet calendar

Detroit Free Press - dogs and puppies for adoption, 12:30-5 p.m. Saturdays. Pet Supplies Plus, 41660 W. 10 Mile, Novi. 248-380-0007. Great Dane Pug Rescue Network: Group, which offers adoptions, needs donations. Mail to P.O. Box 1204, Walled Lake 48390. Many volunteer
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Rescued dogs find refuge at Rockville shelter

Gazette - of rescue operations for the Humane Society, brought the dogs to the shelter from Virginia late Thursday night, including a Lhaso Apso, a pair of Jack Russell terriers and even the new fad designer breed “puggle” half pug, half beagle. The dogs
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Seeley family loses home to fire
Sawyer County Record - Firefighters pulled a safe and gun safe out of the house and rescued five of the Olsons dogs, which survived the fire two American bulldogs, an English springer spaniel, a female pug and a male Shih Tzu. Several dogs perished in the fire
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Perils of animal attraction

Denver Post - is brought by his owner, Aaron Helman, for acupuncture treatments at Canine Rehabilitation & Conditioning Group. The pug Act in 1995, which mandates inspection and licensing of everything from pet stores to boarding kennels to dog breeders and
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Pet adoption drive keeps growing
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Of California’s 214 participating organizations, local ones include Abyssinian Breeders’ International in Whittier, the City of Animal Services, Little Angels Pug Rescue in Pasadena and the West End shelter For Animals in Ontario. Actress Diane
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Friday Best Bets
Post-Star - Breeders’ Cup Countdown 4 p.m., National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs. Program includes video highlights Halloween Pug Party & Parade noon, Dynamite Hill, Chestertown. Pugs in costume on parade. Registration at 11 a.m. Free
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Pick breed that fits home environment
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Many breeders of these dogs, from Rottweilers to Ridgebacks, do not place puppies or adolescents in homes with children younger Some toy breeds are sturdier than others a pug or shih-tzu, for example, might be a better choice than a papillon or
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Mixing it up: Popular hybrid dogs are marking their turf
Asheville Citizen-Times - Don t like a pug s mug? Cross it with a beagle and get a puggle. This new trend in canine tampering has a name Hence one of the most popular new breeds is a Labradoodle, most of which cost about $1,000 or more, according to breeders
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State Needs to Keep Tighter Leash on puppy Mills
Lynchburg News and Advance - The society s report said that the vast majority of puppies sold in Virginia come from mills run by unlicensed breeders whose Thank God for the Humane Society.I never heard of a puppy mill until I adopted a pug puppy from a pet store 20 years ago
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