PET lover Emily Tan was at the veterinary clinic with her four-year-old beagle, Rocky, when she met a dog owner she’ll never forget. Tan, 30, recalls that Rocky, a friendly and inquisitive dog, had tried to give the young, well-dressed woman a sniff when she recoiled in fear and backed against the wall…
Rearing them right: de Run with his white German Shepherd puppies. He says that every dog needs to be trained but it’s a matter of what level of training…
Knobel with his German shepherds Aik (right) and Kimba (left). He says it’s not the breed but the handler that determines whether a dog ends up being dangerous. An owner and trainer of four service dogs two German shepherds, a dobermann and a Shetland sheepdog Anthony firmly believes in responsible ownership…
De Run, who has long worked with working dogs (such as German shepherds, Belgian shepherds and rottweilers), adds that knowing a dog’s history is also important. “If you buy an adult dog, you have to know its history and background the environment he grew up in, who his previous owners are, what they are like. One way to easily do that is to make sure dogs are microchipped, so that their history can be easily tracked.”…
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UDHAGAMANDALAM: A stage for pet dogs has always been set at Ooty during the second week of May every year. The ‘Dog Show’ has been conducted as part of the ‘Ooty Summer Festival’ by the South of India Kennel Club (SIKC).
The 84th annual dog show was inaugurated at the Government Arts College in Ooty on Friday. This is the first time the show is being conducted for three days. “The first day consists of a ‘German Shepherd dog show’ and ‘Golden Retriever specialty show’, a special programme this year”, said Nagina Reddy, Secretary, SIKC.
Out of the 130 entries for German Shepherd dogs, 123 dogs turned up, as did 55 out of 64 special breeds, according to Nagina. The show on Friday also included the 84th ‘Obedience Test Show’.
Claiming his luxurious kennel in Bangalore is testimony to his passion towards dogs, K E Ramesh, a chartered accountant, said “I have 30 dogs, all German Shepherds. I want to specialize in a particular breed.” Ramesh works in South Africa. “The dogs recognize me, though I am…
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LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, Bear was a 100-pound Shiloh German shepherd nobody wanted at a Texas shelter.
Debbie Zeisler came to his rescue. She has lost count of the times since then that he has come to hers. On Monday, Bear was honored with the 30th National Hero Dog award by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles. Last May, Zeisler had a seizure, fell down some steps, hit her head and lost consciousness in her front yard. Bear scratched on every front door in their Millsap neighborhood but nobody answered. A Parker County animal control officer saw the frantic dog and went to help. Bear led the officer to Zeisler.
As a by-then conscious Zeisler was being loaded into an ambulance, Bear did not hesitate to jump in with her and accompany her to the hospital. The dog recognizes the signs of imminent seizures and will lean on Zeisler’s legs so she can sit down before they happen, explained the society’s Ana Bustilloz.
Bear never had any training, but three days after Zeisler took him home he started alerting her to possible problems. “He figured it out on his own,” Bustilloz said. The sometimes daily seizures started after a horse riding accident 18 years ago.
Zeisler said she initially went to the Weatherford Animal Shelter to get a German shepherd for her mother. When she asked about shepherds, she was told they only had one, but he was in the back because nobody wanted him…
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AS A POPULAR ADAGE SAYS, “A dog is man’s best friend.” And this is truer if you’re running for President of the United States because Americans are fond of having pet dogs. Study shows that one in every three Americans own dogs. Since dog owners tend to identify with one another, it is not surprising that a lot of American Presidents owned dogs, too. Twenty-five of the 42 Presidents including Barack Obama owned dogs…
George Washington owned 10 Hounds named Mopsey, Taster, Cloe, Tipler, Forester, Captain, Lady Rover, Vulcan, Sweetlips and Searcher. Abraham Lincoln owned at least two dogs called Fido and Jip. Like his master, Fido suffered a violent death. A drunk who became angry when the dog jumped on him with muddy paws knifed Fido to death in the street.
Theodore Roosevelt owned five dogs: a Pit Bull Terrier (Pete), a Chesapeake Retriever (Sailor Boy), a Terrier (Jack), a mongrel (Skip), and a Spaniel (Manchu). Pete almost caused an international scandal when he ripped off the French ambassador’s pants during a White House function…
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Case, an 18-month-old german shepherd, takes a short cut with handler Constable Dean Rutherfurd close behind as they track a mock offender during an exercise through abandoned properties in a red-zoned area of Burwood yesterday.
Abandoned red-zoned neighbourhoods are serving as empty playgrounds for police dogs in training.
Sergeant Alastair Sim, of the Canterbury police dog section, said the city’s earthquake-hit eastern suburbs were the “most realistic training environment in the country”. “For us, it’s ideal. There are plenty of fences to jump, backyards to run through and empty homes to search.
“International police departments would spend millions of dollars setting this kind of thing up. “Some police colleges overseas have made little villages to try to create realistic scenarios just like this.” Not only did the nearly empty suburbs provide realistic training exercises for dogs, but the police presence also comforted the remaining residents, Sim said.
“The people living here are broken, concerned and anxious, and having us around is a deterrence factor to stop people stealing property. “A few people have even thanked us for being here…
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VALLEJO, CA — A Bay Area family witnessed the unthinkable happening to a puppy on the freeway and jumped to the rescue. The family from Pinole saved a dog being dragged by a pickup truck. The dog, nicknamed “Freeway,” is doing phenomenally well. He is recuperating from his horrific ordeal at a veterinary hospital in Vallejo. Remarkably, the German Shepherd puppy is navigating rather nimbly on just three legs after his rear leg was amputated Tuesday.
A woman and her son were driving on Interstate 780 last week when they saw the dog dangling from the side of a pick-up truck with a rope around its neck. “I noticed something kind of flapping in the wind behind this black truck. Got a little closer, noticed it was the dog,” Angie Porter said. “Panic mode. We started screaming. I’m laying on my horn, trying to catch up to the person. He was going pretty fast. And, he was just being drug and strangulated at the same time, kind of flopping around.”
The rope eventually snapped and the dog rolled into a freeway wall. Porter stopped to help and called 9-1-1. The driver of the pickup sped away. It has been touch and go all week since the dog arrived at the hospital trembling and in shock, but the vet says he is looking much better and will make it through the ordeal. He was reunited with the woman who saved him and her son Wednesday afternoon. She says she may just adopt him. At the least, she will think about it…
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Iris, an eight-month-old German Shepherd puppy, is our rescue pet of the week. Iris is currently staying with a foster until she finds a permanent home. Lesley Brog, owner of Wags and Walks, a local rescue organization, writes this about Iris:
My friend found her outside of his workplace and she kept kissing him! He brought her home and she is great with his dogs and 1 year old child. They agreed to keep her safe until the most loving home is found. If you’re interested in adopting Iris or know someone who might be, To see other dogs available for adoption…
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The Washington State based organization’s mission statement reads,”To find loving homes for surrendered, abandoned or neglected dogs and puppies. Washington GSD Rescue hopes to ease the problem of the population overflow occuring in many of our shelters today. We educate the individual on the importance of sterilizing the pet and providing superior care.”
“They do their best to find homes for German Shepherd dogs,” said Nolan,” and puppies are very rare but evidently they had a breeder that got sick and couldn’t take care of her dogs. She had one last set of puppies before she closed down her business.” At seven months Gunnar weighs 60 lbs. so, “he’s going to be a big boy,” Nolan said.
“It was time to bring in some new blood,” Nolan explained because the the older dogs, at 13 and 9 are, “getting up there in age.” German Shepherds typically live around 15 years maximum. “My wife watched him grow up on the website and we kept saying to ourselves, ‘we just can’t do a puppy,’ and finally after five months he was still there. It turns out that the organization is very particular about the type of families they put them in and they had put him in a home and pulled him out because they didn’t like the way the people were raising him. They make you sign a contract. So he was back with the foster mom and I got to meet him. We said we’d foster him for a weekend. He got along pretty good with the older dogs though it was little crazy around here. So we decided to bring him in and now we’re back to three.” Nolan described Gunnar as, “One of the calmest, sweetest German Shepherds I’ve seen. He’s very self as…
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THE location of the dogs which allegedly mauled a four-year-old boy a year ago is unknown to the police. This was the testimony of Cpl Lenus Samaroo yesterday as he gave evidence against Vidya Emrith, the alleged owner of the dogs. The charge against Emrith, which was laid by Samaroo, is that on April 12 last year she allowed her dangerous dogs to be at large without being properly muzzled. It is alleged Emrith’s mixed Akita and German Shepherd dogs attacked Ezekiel Cambridge-Renne at Chrissie Street, Palmiste, on that day. In giving evidence yesterday, Samaroo said he went to Emrith’s home two days after the alleged incident.
“She stated that she will make a jail for her dogs. To date the dogs have not been photographed and the whereabouts of the dogs is unknown,” Samaroo said. The officer however said that photographs were taken at the scene of the alleged attack and also of Emrith’s home. After calling five witnesses, including the boy’s grandmother and Aldwyn Crosby who testified that the dogs bit Ezekiel on his head, arms and abdomen, the prosecution yesterday closed its case…
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Doreen Longo has been to Woodbridge Municipal Court several times in the last few months, as she follows the legal wranglings of the pet store owner whom she says sold her and others sick and dying puppies.
This time, though, the legal woes are hers. Longo is being sued by Rocco Garruto, the owner of Fancy Pups in Avenel, for attempted assault charges. In a summons she received, Longo is being accused of trying to physically harm Garruto while they were in a waiting room outside Woodbridge Municipal Court earlier this year. Longo, a Toms River resident, said she was speechless when she received the summons, which was filed on March 29 and requires her to be in court today.
“[Garruto] is simply unbelievable,” she said. The summons accuses Longo of “lunging [at Garruto]” during a January 26 meeting in Woodbridge Municipal Court. The Fancy Pups owner was in court that day after being sued by the Middlesex County Department of Consumer Affairs for numerous violations of the state’s “Puppy Lemon Law.” He was accused of selling sick and dying puppies to pet owners who didn’t receive compensation for the veterinarian bills of the sick dogs, or not getting their money back after the puppies died. Garruto pleaded guilty in court to fraud charges…
Garruto is countersuing Longo, saying her efforts to publicize the death of her German Shepherd puppy since it died of parvovirus in December has cost business at his Avenel store to drop by 60 percent…
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