Friday, August 13th, 2010 at
10:46 am

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Linda and Glynn Sumrall care about pets. So much that they opened A Pet’s Memory, a pet funeral home and crematory in Gulfport, so that owners would have such a facility after the loss of a pet.
“They can sit down and talk to someone where their loss isn’t trivialized,” Linda Sumrall [...]
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at
8:40 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Georgia’s bulldog mascot, Uga, gets a special medical procedure to help him fly safely. But many other short-snouted dogs do not fare as well when put on airplanes, new data shows.
Dogs with pushed-back faces such as English bulldogs and pugs accounted for roughly half the purebred dog deaths on [...]
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Monday, August 9th, 2010 at
8:58 am

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military, conducting door-to-door searches and witnessing all sorts of noisy explosions.
She returned home to Colorado cowering and fearful. When her handlers tried to take her into a building, [...]
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Friday, August 6th, 2010 at
8:37 am
Cool as a cucumber … but what if you are a horse! Summer heat and humidity can be a dangerous combination for active horses.
“Heat and humidity affect the horse, and with intense exercising, the excess heat has difficulty dissipating,” notes Dr. Glennon Mays, clinical associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & [...]
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at
8:53 am
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The cats and dogs of “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” have all kinds of super-spy gadgetry and training at their disposal: jet-packs, tricked-out collars, the works. But they come from a long and lovable tradition of live-action animal movies — ones that were simpler [...]
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