Category: Pets
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What Friends Do
We got Darwin, the pure bred, championship-quality Pembroke Welsh Corgi, as a freebie from our vet. Why? Darwin was born with an incurable heart problem that was supposed to kill him within his first few months. With a new medication, and great care from the vet, Darwin’s made it to six years old – far…
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What went into this mutt?
We’ve been having a lot of fun with Tegan, the new puppy. We play with her constantly. And between ourselves, we try to guess what breeds of dogs her parents were. She is long and low. The gene for short-leggedness in dogs is their version of dwarfism. It is found in only a few breeds,…
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Puppy Play
We got a new puppy in November, and it has been a pleasure to watch her as she grows. We named her Tegan, which is a Welsh term of endearment that means “number one girl”, “sweetie”, “honeybunch”. She is a Mutt. Based on what she looks like and how she acts, her ancestry probably includes…
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Dogs and Raccoons Battle to 1-1 Draw
My dogs got me up at 3:00 this morning to tell me that the raccoon we have visiting the backyard was back. I stumbled downstairs in a waking-up-from-deep-sleep daze to let them out. I always turn the light on before I let them out, to give the raccoon fair warning that it is time to…
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Dog as God’s Messenger
When we got our golden retriever-chow mix from the Denver Dumb Friends League, we thought she looked like a fox. In honor of this, we named her Kurama Kitsune, “mountain fox” in Japanese. My daughter came up with the name after watching a Japanese anime cartoon that had a half fox-half human character named Kurama…
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How to Shoot Your Dog…With a Camera
It is that time of year again. Lyn is looking for photos of your dog for the Pet Therapy Calendar. Having had less than total success with professional photographers lately, many of you are considering taking the pictures yourselves. And yet, you hesitate. How can you take a shot that will make it to the…
Amy Law, Science Geek 