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Lee Richardson Zoo has met the fundraising goal for Cat Canyon. Do you think the new exhibit will bring visitors from other towns to our local zoo?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just over half of American pet owners will buy gifts for their pets this holiday season, and they’ll spend an average of $46 on their animals, with toys and treats topping the list, according to a new AP-Petside.com poll. Sixty-eight percent of pets getting gifts can look forward to a toy, [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You are spending Thanksgiving with Aunt Nellie in Kansas. Your dog will be staying in a hotel suite called Neiman Barcus with a flat-screen TV. There might be surf lessons, catered meals, a massage, pawdicure, spa bath and photo shoot. Boarding your pet has changed a lot over the past decade. [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A major Pennsylvania health insurer has started offering pet insurance and that’s no tall tail. Officials at Harrisburg-based Capital Blue Cross tell The Philadelphia Inquirer they believe the company is the first Blue Cross company to offer pet insurance. The program is managed by Philadelphia-based PetPlan. Capital Blue Cross strategic development [...]
GLASCO, Kan. (AP) — Joy Cunningham enjoys work days around students at Cloud County Community College in Concordia, but life is different before and after hours when the focus is on some four-legged dependents. “They’re people in a horse suit,” Cunningham said of the 16 miniature horses that she and her husband, Bill, maintain on [...]
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Deer in some parts of Kansas are dying this summer from a disease spread by tiny insects that proliferated because of an extended drought, state wildlife officials said. The deer are being felled by epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD, which is spread by midges, tiny insects that pass infected blood from [...]
