I love you Daddy!
I like cats as much as the next person but, WOW! is all I can say about this cat! I don't know the story behind this picture, I ran into it on Stumbleupon, which by the way is a really cool app if you havn't tried it yet.
Cats have always been a favorite of mine, I just love that they don't seem to give a darn. Where do you suppose they keep his litter box?
You heard right, monkey's best friend, not man's. At least in this particular case anyway, a case of love at first sight in the animal kingdom, and the incredible true story of a dog's bond with a orangutan.
This is one of the most heart-warming animal relationship stories I have seen. A hungry stray dog discovers the true meaning of friendship with a playful little orangutan. Any pet owner will find it fascinating, but it appeals especially to dog lovers, just like me!
I can just imagine my dog Duke, an 80 lb chocolate lab all snuggled up in the soft, hairy arms of an orangutan, would he prefer the monkey to man? What about your dog?
A southpaw is what they used to call a left-handed pitcher in baseball and believe it or not, just like us humans where some of us are born right-handed and others left-handed, a dog can be either left pawed or right pawed. I always thought that was a funny way to describe a left-hander because when I hear "paw" I think of a dog, but baseball is a weird game anyway.
It has been well documented that some dogs will twirl when they get excited, especially the smaller ones like Yorkies or Pomeranian's. Which direction they twirl in, we suspect, has to do with the "handedness" of a dog. A right pawed dog would twirl in a clockwise direction and a left pawed dog would twirl in a counterclockwise spin. I got this bit of dog lore from Clay Thompson's column in the Arizona Republic although he does say he is only guessing when he responds to a reader with a question about twirling dogs. I think it's a reasonable explanation as to why some dogs twirl in a certain direction and others go the opposite way.
Of course once you think you have figured it out along comes a dog that spins in both directions, sort of ambigdogerous, which in baseball, means a switch hitter.
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I didn't know this about high-energy dogs, the fact that they are the ones most dumped because they are just too much work but I guess it makes sense, not that they are abandoned, but why. They just demand too much from owners that don't, won't or can't do what's necessary with a dog that requires more than just a lap to lay in.
Thousands of shelter dogs are deemed unadoptable and are put down because they are too high-energy for their owners. Fortunately there are programs out there that teach shelters and rescuers how to identify dogs that are candidates for service work and these dogs are proving that even with questionable parentage and unknown history that they are well-suited for a life as a service dog.
It's hard to believe that someone could give up a dog for this reason because my high-energy dog keeps me healthy and active. He knows how to nudge my hand away from the computer when it's time to go chase a frisbee, so I smile, hit the save button, and off we go. (more…)
Is the title of a brilliant new video by Wendy Francisco that is taking the world by storm on YouTube, and rightly so.
I get a lot of things sent to me about pets; emails, comments, videos, etc but never has one touched me as deeply as this.
While I watched her video the dog I adopted from a shelter lay sleeping by me and he is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Wendy is so right when she sings about human frailty never quite being able to keep up with unconditional love from a dog.
Thank you Wendy and may you enjoy continued success!
