Canine Issues
SIMPLE ACTS OF KINDNESS SAVE HUMAN AND ANIMAL LIVES
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/16/2012Hoarding is a phenomenon that most animal control agencies eventually encounter. It’s the situation where scores or even hundreds of neglected, sick and sometimes dying animals are found living in squalid conditions under the…
Court Sides with DDAL Interpretation of AWA USDA to Appeal
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012A Washington DC federal court ordered the US Department of Agriculture to begin licensing all dog and cat breeders in the US in a decision handed down in a lawsuit filed by the Doris Day Animal League.
Humane Societies Defeat Replacement Bill that Includes Standards for Shelters
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012The Minnesota Council of Dog Clubs and the American Dog Owners Association joined forces to fight the state’s cruelty to animals law as unconstitutionally ambiguous and vague, and Hennepin County District Court Judge Thomas…
Why Isn’t Bred By Exhibitor Considered More Important
By Pat Hastings | Published: 01/9/2012I think the reason Naomi Fox (aka Naomi Foltz) and I had such a great time when our club hosted the 1996 National Specialty was because we meshed in our combined efforts like soul mates. The idea discussed in this article is one…
MAR/APR 99: DOG AND CAT OWNERS OPPOSE SAME OLD OHIO CRUELTY BILL
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012In 1998, Ohio HB 437, an anti-cruelty bill supported by the Humane Society of the US, was referred to the House Agriculture Committee after a floor fight over provisions denying due process to animal owners, and there it died when…
WOLFDOGS: AGENCY SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENTS
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012Owners of wolfdogs received good news from the US Department of Agriculture: after reviewing evidence that rabies and other vaccines work in wolfdogs, USDA has decided to add these canines to its vaccination regulations.
WHAT’S IN A NAME? OR , THE WOLF AMONG US
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012Taxonomists are those scientists who spend their time assigning and then arguing about the appropriate scientific names for living organisms.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ... AND MORE
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012One of the most significant pearls of wisdom I was fortunate to receive over the years was in these words: A sound dog will age more gracefully, be less likely to break down from stress or injury, experience less fatigue and greater…
HERDING TRIALS PUT BORDER COLLIES TO THE TEST
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012The man walked slowly into the field, the dog a coiled spring by his side. The pair reached a marking post; the man gave an imperceptible signal, and the dog was off in a wide arc, galloping across the gently rolling sides of the…
PAT HASTINGS SOLVES THE PUPPY PUZZLE
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012Good breeders make breeding decisions based on a number of criteria: they consider what each dog has produced before, what strengths and weaknesses they bring to the breed and the breeding program, and how the potential puppies…
OVDO FIGHTS ANTI-DOCKING BILL
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012Ohio Valley Dog Owners Inc., an affiliate of NAIA, is working on two fronts to improve animal welfare in Ohio.
HOBBY BREEDERS CAN BREATHE EASY
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012Despite three years of pressure from animal rights groups, the US Department of Agriculture has decided to leave home-based dog and cat breeders alone and to regulate dealers of hunting, breeding, and security dogs under the federal…
AGILITY - AKC’S NEW FUN SPORT GROWS IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS
By Sharon Anderson | Published: 01/9/2012Running, climbing, jumping, zipping through tunnels, and twisting through a set of upright poles, dogs throughout the country are racing through agility courses having the time of their lives. If the dog’s idea of how to run…
SLED DOGS ARE PART OF HUMAN CULTURE AND HISTORY
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012Sled dogs have coexisted and cooperated in partnership with humans for many thousands of years in the northern regions of North America and Siberia. Archeological evidence puts the earliest date at more than 4000 years ago. Some…
CHARLIE AND HIS NEIGHBORS
By Robert H. McKowen | Published: 01/9/2012A long-time friend of mine now living in the Atlanta area has been a bachelor all of his life, not necessarily by choice, but that’s another story. His soul companion for the past decade has been a little dog who is blind.…
WOLFDOG OWNERS HEAR GOOD NEW, BAD NEWS
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012Owners of wolfdogs received good news from the US Department of Agriculture and bad news from animal rights activists in Michigan, all in a few short weeks at the end of summer.
LOS ANGELES DOG AND CAT BREEDERS BATTLE $300 FEES
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012The City of Los Angeles is holding hearings on a proposal that is intended to end the euthanasia of unwanted dogs and cats in shelters and the dumping of pets on the streets but actually targets the responsible breeding of healthy…
AKC’S CAR BRINGS DOGS HOME AGAIN
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012Dogs escape, lose their collars or tags, and often travel far from home on their own or with help, so owners often have no clue where to look.
SAVE OUR STRAYS: A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE DOG AND CAT POPULATION DILEMMAS
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/9/2012For the past decade and more, national and local animal organizations have blamed puppy producers for euthanasias in shelters and promoted sterilization as the only way to decrease shelter deaths. Slowly, over the past five or six…
WHY AKC?
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012Word has it that AKC may be in for yet another television bashing, this time on NBC Dateline during ratings week in February. For details, see www.akc.org and read Norma Bennett Woolf’s article, “NBC plows old ground,…
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