Breeds

A year ago in Kansas,  a small zoo  was struggling to survive declining visitors and hard times.  And a Bendal tiger they had gave birth to 3 cubs and then abandoned them.  Isabella, a Golden Retriever, was in the process of weaning her own  two pups and the Harveys, owners of the zoo, tried Isabella […]

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Margaret on June 25th, 2009

The official White House photographer, Chuck Kennedy, took the above pix. of Bo for the Baseball card. It’s a tradition that the “first dog” gets his picture on a basecard card and Bo’s is already out with some fun things:  Like his goal is to “make friends with foreign dognitaries, favourite foods: tomatoes and/or toys”, […]

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Margaret on June 24th, 2009

Millie, a Springer Spaniel,  owned by Barbara Bush was regarded as the most famous of the White House Dogs and Millie is credited as the author of the bestseller  “Millie’s Book, as Dictated to Barbara Bush”. Bo will be staring in his own comic book written for children. “Puppy Power, Bo Obama” is written by […]

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Margaret on June 23rd, 2009

It is coming on to the trials for the CD title.  I have not been to any classes for the past 6 months and only managed to get to the “Mock Trials” last Wednesday as the training classes clashed with something else I was doing. Most children love dogs and these two children, one is […]

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Margaret on May 29th, 2009

US newspapers and television yesterday reported the rescue of  close to 400 American Toy Eskimo dogs from a “puppy mill” in Benton Country. ” barks rang out from across more than two acres on Stewart’s property. There were puppies in shopping carts, tiny pens, hot cages. Some of the animals were just days old, many […]

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I read in today’s “Nation” newspaper that an Akita was brutally killed after it bit a one and a half year old child.  Apparently the child “was calling the dog’s name, Shawn, over and over and hitting him. Then the dog pushed his head through the gallery and clamped on to the boy’s hand,” The […]

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Margaret on May 22nd, 2009

These beanie baby look like Bo toys were introduced in stores in the USA two days after Bo, the Portuguese Water Dog puppy was unveiled by the Obama family.  Priced at $4.99 they sold out in a few hours with fresh “litters” then being produced to meet the demand. Of course, you can also imagine […]

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Margaret on May 21st, 2009

I saw in a recent post of DogWorld that a man recently kicked to death his fiancee’s Yorkshire Terrier.  A Yorkshire Terrier is a toy breed, according to the standard, with a weight not exceeding 7 lbs. There were some of this breed in Barbados years ago with pedigrees and I believe there are still […]

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Margaret on May 7th, 2009

The famous designer loves Pugs and has six of them.  He recently had a competition which 450 Pugs entered and the object was to select the 20 “most fashionable”.  The above is known as Pugger Doodle and was only a runner up but with its incognito appearance, it certainly would have attracted a lot of […]

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Margaret on May 3rd, 2009

Agility restarted a few weeks ago, and Rita (Rap’s litter sister out of Netherlands import Ch. Rick Lois From the Dogsfarm at Calliope and the UK import Ch. Farleycross So Far So Good of Calliope) whom I had booked for the agility class and was working with in agility now for a while, went into […]

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