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  • World's Ugliest Dog Loses Battle With Cancer

    Way back in June of this year I was just starting out as the new writer for Scribbles N’s Bits and I remember doing a story on the winner of the Annual Sonoma-Marin Fair’s Ugliest Dog Contest. While it may sound like a small time contest, the prize for the honor of being crowned Ugliest Dog was $500 in cash and a spot on CBS This Morning as well ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by blogmaster on November 19, 2008

  • Viagra.....does good for one dog's heart

    I read this on the BBC News website this am.  ''Talisker, a border collie, was living on borrowed time after vets found his heart had become dangerously enlarged. The dog, three, from Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, passes out when he gets excited because his blood cannot pump quickly enough around his body. But, since taking ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by bloglady on March 24, 2008

  • What can your dog wear?

    Well according to the Chinanews website the China Textile Association recently published some rules to set industrial standards on dog clothes.    ''The rules clearly specify the outer look quality standards that pet dog clothes should meet and some of the criteria that pet clothes should meet in their physical and chemical makings. ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by lorrainehug on October 24, 2007

  • Oh those wonderful noses......

    I just read an article on the Newsday.com website about 2 labrador retrievers that are trained not to sniff out drugs or harmful gas but to sniff out DVD's.  These 2 dogs, Lucky and Flo, have helped to break up a pirated Dvd ring in Malaysia and lately in Queen's, New York. ''Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and his ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by lorrainehug on September 4, 2007

  • Disaster Strikes......Would you leave your pet?

    As a result of the masses of animals abandoned during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Arlington County has purchased a 20 foot trailer that is stocked with food, pet supplies, and it cost $20,000, Fairfax County has purchased an incident response center for its animal response staff.   Montgomery County and Alexandria are looking into ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by lorrainehug on February 27, 2007