Friday, August 5th, 2011 at
9:53 am
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — While she didn’t exactly squeal with delight, Springfield resident Sarah Wood-Snapp was plenty pleased on a recent Monday night when the City Council approved an ordinance allowing her and other city residents to snuggle up to their favorite pot-bellied pig. “It feels pretty good,” Wood-Snapp said after the meeting. In a [...]
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 at
9:29 am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You don’t have to be Leona Helmsley to want the best for your pet after you die. She’d left her dog Trouble $12 million when she passed away in 2007. A judge cut the award to $2 million and awarded some of the money to her grandchildren, but the Maltese still [...]
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Monday, August 1st, 2011 at
11:37 am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hairballs are normal in cats, but they’re a nuisance for cat-owners to deal with. There are a few things you can do, though, to reduce hairballs and other feline dietary upsets. Cats ingest a lot of hair because their tongues have tiny tentacles (papillae) that act like brushes when they clean, [...]
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Friday, July 29th, 2011 at
9:48 am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Gabriela Dorame of Fullerton, Calif., got a German shepherd puppy named Bolto last year, she and her kids decided to have a microchip implanted in the dog with an identification number that makes it easy to reunite lost pets with owners. It paid off a day later when the rambunctious [...]
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at
11:45 am

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A blast from a suicide bomber on a motorcycle in Afghanistan gave Joshua Endicott injuries from his head to toes. Doctors and the medical staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington worked to heal most of those wounds. But 10 months after Endicott, 20, of Columbus, was hit and [...]
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