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Happy Tails Publishing Searching for Submissions

Posted January 19, 2010 By aschae and has no comments yet.

Happy Tails Books publishes compilations of stories from people who have adopted dogs. Their breed-specific “Lost Souls: Found!” series showcases the love and joy these adopted dogs bring to their new homes in an effort to raise awareness of, and funding for dog rescue organizations.

Happy Tails Books is currently working on books about Chihuahuas, German Shepherds, Pugs, Boxers and mixes thereof, and they’ve asked me to share their information in case you’d like to submit a story about your adopted dog(s). Guidelines and a submission form are located at http://happytailsbooks.com/submit.htm. You can send in a complete story about your dog (600-1200 words), a paragraph about something sweet or funny he/she did, a training/health challenge and how it was solved, a poem, or a recipe. They are also looking for high resolution, professional-quality photos for the front and back covers. Be sure to list the rescue you are associated with in the submission form (if applicable – dog don’t need to be from a rescue, they just can’t be purchased from a pet store or breeder), as rescues earn points from each story submitted or book purchased, and then the points turn into a donation at the end of the year.

Contact Info: Kyla Duffy, Happy Tails Books, Editor In Chief. 303-807-0412, kyla@happytailsbooks.com Boulder, CO

Categories: Adoptable Dogs, Children & Dogs, Funny Dog Stories, General Training, Health, Herding Dogs, Human/Canine Bond, Products Worth Sharing, Puppy Mills, Recent News, Recommended Reading, Rescue, adoption

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Dog Spends $62 While Owners Sleep

Posted November 2, 2009 By aschae and has no comments yet.

Source: TheHuffingtonPost.com, October 20, 2009

A chewed remote control, a dog, and $62.50 less in the bank account.

For Greg Stroke, this could only mean one thing: his dog had purchased 5,000 Xbox points — worth $62 — while he and his girlfriend were asleep.

Stroke saved his credit card information on his remote control to make it easier to buy video games using Microsoft Xbox points — so easy, in fact, that a dog could do it.

When the dog chewed the remote, the points were bought. “i just wish they’d make it a little harder to purchase points,” Stroke lamented.

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Florida dog mothers 6 piglets along with her own pups

Posted July 28, 2009 By aschae and has 2 comments.

Source: Fort Myers News, July 24, 2009

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The cage opens and six newborn pigs file out and sprint to their mother.

Without a bark or a grunt, a black Rottweiler/pit bull named Tequila lies on her side. The piglets then suckle the dog’s milk for 20 minutes.
The pigs are so eager for Tequila’s milk that they push, bump and jump over each other to get it.
“I’ve been farming for a while and I’ve never ever ever seen anything like this,” said James Favreau, who owns the pigs and dog on his Buckingham farm. “It’s amazing. Two weeks ago, this dog was hunting wild pigs with me.”
Now, Tequila is busy nursing six piglets and eight puppies. The 2-year-old Tequila gave birth to the puppies Monday, the same day Favreau’s 3-year-old Yorkshire produced the piglets.
Favreau, 45, said Tequila started nursing the pigs Monday morning shortly after the pigs were born during a rainstorm. Favreau said he rescued one of the pigs from drowning and brought all of them into his home.

“I was going to put them back in the yard but then I turned around and Tequila was feeding them,” Favreau said.
Dogs nursing pigs are relatively rare, according to an Internet search Wednesday.
Only one previous example was found and it occurred in June in southern Thailand.
One of Favreau’s friends was so stunned by the development that he forwarded the nursing pictures to NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.’’
Even if she doesn’t make the late-night television show, Tequila is still a hit locally. Favreau’s nephew, Ryan Rivera, and friend, Angel Roman, came over to view the nursing Wednesday.
“This is one of a kind,” Roman said. “It’s a good example that animals can get along.”
Favreau said Tequila has grown so close to the piglets she even cleans them when they get dirty. The piglets — who are named Junior, Snowball, Mud, Freckles, Wilbur and Spot — follow Tequila around Favreau’s home.
“They’re like one big happy family,” he said.
Favreau said he tried putting the pigs back with their natural parents — 500-pound Yorkshires named Funny Face and Alexander the Great — but the piglets grunted and acted strange.
That doesn’t happen when the pigs are around Tequila. Nevertheless, Favreau plans to wean the pigs away from Tequila.
He started giving the pigs milk in a bowl Wednesday. Favreau hopes Tequila will stop nursing the pigs in a week.
“I’m slowly weaning them off but they need (natural) milk so that when they get older they can have a strong immune system,” Favreau said.
“If any of the pigs were going to die from (the dog milk) they would be already dead. This is day three and look, they’re as spunky as they can be.”

Categories: Feeding, Funny Dog Stories, Health, Recent News

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Car impounded after dog drives away from car wash, OK

Posted November 7, 2008 By aschae and has no comments yet.

Source: Pryor Daily Times, Nov 7, 2008

PRYOR, Okla. (AP) — A dog waiting in a car while at a car wash
slipped the vehicle into gear and drove in a loop before the car came
to a stop. Pryor police officer Brent Crittenden said the dog’s owner
was washing the vehicle when the 70-pound pit bull jumped on the dash
and somehow shifted the car into reverse.

The car backed out of
the car wash bay, continued onto a highway and then looped around
before coming to a stop at an automated car wash lane.

Crittenden said the vehicle was impounded because its owner was unable to provide proof of insurance.

Because the dog was registered with the city, Crittenden said the owner was allowed to walk the pooch home.

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8 flights at Logan delayed as poodle toys with freedom, MA

Posted October 27, 2008 By aschae and has no comments yet.

Source: The Boston Globe, By Sarah M. Gantz, Globe Correspondent / October 27, 2008

Cramped after a Saturday night flight from Detroit, Choochy the poodle broke free after her plane landed at Logan and for the next 17 hours, the tiny white fugitive managed to elude nearly a dozen Massport employees and State Police, holding up runway traffic as she cavorted on the tarmac.

Gideon Lester, a passenger on a delayed US Airways flight to LaGuardia in New York, saw the event unfold. “I’m sitting on a plane at Logan waiting to take off. The runway had been closed because a stray dog, looks like a poodle, is running around the tarmac. Several MassPort officials are trying to catch him.”

Her romp ended yesterday afternoon when she was finally coaxed into custody, but not before she managed to delay at least eight flights for about 20 minutes each, according to Phil Orlandella, a Massport spokesman, who said the pup “did create a little havoc.”

Gideon Lester, who was headed to New York, watched from his window aboard his 11 a.m. US Airways flight, which sat on the runway for 25 minutes as five Massport vans drove in circles trying to corral Choochy.

The poodle “seemed to be having a good time,” said Lester, artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre. “They looked like they were running cattle.”

His fellow passengers were mostly amused rather than annoyed by the runaway, he said, but were “a little incredulous that it would take so many men so many hours to catch this little dog.”

Lester’s flight took off after the crew managed to chase Choochy off the runway, into the grass.

The State Police dog unit assisted Massport’s fire and rescue staff and operations personnel in corralling Choochy at about 12:40 p.m., enticing her with dog food.

The dog had eluded officials Saturday night when she made her break, Orlandella said, because employees could not find her in the dark.

Orlandella said Choochy must have escaped from her kennel while the plane was being unloaded after landing at 7:15 p.m. Saturday.

“Obviously, she’s hungry and she’s afraid,” Orlandella said earlier in the day as employees chased Choochy around the runways. A safe but tired Choochy was reunited with her family, who live in Revere. Orlandella would not release the name of her family.