P&A News @ January 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When it comes to pet training, dogs traditionally have had a paw up on their feline counterparts. Programs to increase a cat’s socialization and training aren’t considered by most pet owners and didn’t exist until recently. But school is becoming the “in” thing for kittens, with the advent of kitten kindergarten.
Kitten kindergarten is the [...]
P&A News @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It’s not every day you see a chicken walk the line. Or a groundhog zipping past in a red sports car, or a cat strumming a pink guitar.
Starring in the Amazing Acro-Cats show are cats that ride skateboards, roll barrels, walk the high wire and jump through hoops. But the show also features rats, a [...]
P&A News @ January 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Max and Holly were the most popular names for dogs in Scotland over the past 10 years, a new study claims.
Charlie and Molly were the favourite choices for cats, according vets at the University of Glasgow.
They compiled the lists from faculty records and found traditional names have remained popular - with Ben, Sam, Lucy [...]
P&A News @ December 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Some people are very organized when it comes to messing up their lives, an old friend told me years ago. The first thing they do is make a list of the 10 best ways to ruin everything. At the top of every list, he added, is this:
Danielle Burbick, 12, strokes the foot of Fidel, a [...]
admin @ December 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Brutis the cat is back home with his owner after going through a bit of a pickle. He had been stuck in a neighbor’s tree for nine days, according to the owner.
And the cat’s owner says a police officer was partly to blame.
The cat got away from his owner, Michael, last Sunday at a home near 12th Street [...]
P&A News @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In Germany, if you use a TV, radio or the internet, you better have a license.
That goes for your pets too.
GEZ is the acronym for the enforcement agency responsible for fee collection for the licenses.
Recently, a pair of letters were sent to Winni G demanding to know whether Winni owned a television or a radio.
Winni [...]
P&A News @ December 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Julie Bishop caught the thief with his stash. She just doesn’t know exactly whom he stole from.
Over the past year, Ms. Bishop has witnessed her cat Frankie appear at her home with Teddy Bears, socks, two green witches heads, a squeaky hamburger and about 15 identical toy leopards.
Of course, what self-respecting tomcat would [...]
P&A News @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
First a dog joins a Chinese swimming club (
Swim Team Includes Sheepdogs) - that’s unusual. When a cat, stereotypically afraid of water, joins a club - that’s remarkable.
Yet, a six-month-old black cat covers 50 meters a day with the Changjiang River Winter Swimming Club in Chongqing, China.
After each dip, the cat licks itself dry and [...]
P&A News @ November 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Peter Hochberger of Ruprechtshofen, Austria knew his Mercedes had horsepower. That fact could not explain the meowing he heard from under the hood.
When Peter lifted the hood to check the engine, he was amazed to see his neighbor’s cat, Luna, wedged on top of the engine block.
In fact, in order to remove Luna, a mechanic [...]
P&A News @ November 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
What a way to wake-up.
John Griffin of Dunedin, FL was rudely awakened when his cat, Charley, happened to be on Griffin’s face meowing and his dog, Blondie, was nudging him.
The duo persisted until Griffin was out of bed, and for good reason.
Their one-story wood-frame home was on fire and burning fast.
Griffin, Charlie and the Bull [...]
P&A News @ November 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In times of war, soldier’s allies can come from unusual places. For the Canadian forces in Afghanistan, the locals have provided valuable assistance. However, these locals aren’t people.
At the Canadian provincial reconstruction base in Kandahar City, the troops needed help with the mouse population. The mice themselves weren’t the problem, but the predators they drew [...]
P&A News @ November 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For animal-lovers, the above picture is hard to look at.
However, the newborn kitten is showing signs that it is healthy despite the fact it has two heads.
Louisa Burgess, the nurse who helped deliver the kitten said, “it has a full tummy and it survived the night so that is a good sign. It seems content, [...]
P&A News @ November 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A mother dog’s loss is a litter of kitten’s gain.
A female dog in Jiangmen, China recently gave birth, but lost her pups when another dog took them away.
The mother dog’s void was soon to be filled.
The dog’s owner, a man named Cai, also had a cat that had given birth to four kittens.
The mother cat [...]
P&A News @ November 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Reports of zoos seeing bonds between odd couples seem to be increasing.
The Nanhai Zoo in Zhumadian City, China is the latest to witness such a pairing.
One of the zookeepers is of the habit of bringing her 6-month-old puppy to work with her.
Over time she noticed that the dog would approach a monkey’s cage on a [...]
P&A News @ November 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The 2008 Rabbit Hash, KY mayoral race was one for the ages. Whenever 200% or more of your registered voters cast a ballot, you know you are going to have a memorable election.
In addition, the candidates crossed multi-species lines.
The only cat in the race, Travis, held a steady lead throughout the day. However, with ten [...]
P&A News @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Humane Society of Harrisburg Area in Pennsylvania can add some of their residents to the list of unusual animal adoptions.
A three-day-old chocolate Labrador retriever had been abandoned by its mother. The puppy was brought to the animal shelter and staff worked to keep him alive - bottle feeding and using a heating pad for [...]