Come join us on a summer day for some fun and fundraising in support of the SC-SPCA. Festival Details include a variety of vendors, animal demonstrations featuring dog agility, reptile show and horses, food, music provided by Idette and the Sunrunners and lastly games and activities for all ages. www.MapleskiRidge.com

A fair for adults, kids, and their pets too!
Games, bouncy-bounce, music, animal rescues, vendors, horses, reptile show, pet costume contest, Purrrfect Pet Tricks contest, Dazzle Dogs, agility demos, food and more!

Saturday, July 10, 2010
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Maple Ski Ridge, Rotterdam, NY (click here for directions)

FREE ADMISSION – RAIN OR SHINE – PETS ARE WELCOME

If you have any questions please contact Becky Smith at bsmith@schenectadyspca.org

More info here: http://www.schenectadyspca.org/index.php/community/wags-and-whiskers

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An employee of DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal in St. Louis says he recently found $58 packed in dog poop, then returned the cash to the pooch’s owner.

But Steve Wilson says he sanitized the bills first.

Wilson says he wasn’t sure what to do when he first noticed money sticking out from the doggie doo. But after pulling out the cash and cleaning it, he placed it in a plastic zip-locked bag and gave it back to the customer.

The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists says Wilson is the first person in his profession to find and report money in dog poop.

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What happened to a Chattanooga police officer’s car was certainly under the radar. A city police spokeswoman said Sunday that Officer Clayton Holmes had been checking traffic speeds with radar and stopped to fill out a report when he felt his car shaking. He found a bulldog chewing on the tires. After the dog attacked two passing cars and a second police car, officers used pepper spray and a Taser on it, but the animal wasn’t deterred.

By the time McCamey Animal Center staffers captured that dog and two others, it had chewed two tires and the entire front bumper off Holmes’ patrol car.

Officer Rebecca Royval said the dogs got out of a fence at a nearby welding shop. The owner was cited and the dogs were removed.

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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

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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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