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Posted on December 28, 2017December 28, 2017
Posted in Bloggers, Pet Studies, Tracie Hotchner

Crowd-Sourced Canine Behavior Study

Join a Historic Study of Canine Behavior before January 15, 2018! How does this sound: answer a few questions about your own dog(s) behavior and in doing so, contribute to helping save the lives of other pooches in shelters? At the same time, you might get an insight into some of the issues dogs can

Posted on December 26, 2017
Posted in Bethany Meissner, Bloggers, Pet Stories

Alaska Dog Saves Owner Suffering from Seizures

It’s not common to see a dog loping by himself through the halls of a hospital. However, that very thing happened this summer at Sitka Community Hospital in Sitka, Alaska. A large Labrador Retriever ran down a hall because he knew his owner needed help. According to the Anchorage Daily News, Eric Skousen has cerebral

Posted on December 23, 2017
Posted in #HaloFeeditForward, Belkis Cardona-RIvera, Bloggers, Donations

Whole Lot of Difference: Lake Charles Pit Bull Rescue

According to their website, Lake Charles Pit Bull Rescue (LCPBR) is a breed specific rescue organization that is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of pitbulls and pit mixes. LCPBR is also an educational based organization. LCPBR educates through breed specific historically correct facts, dog training, specifically bully breed training classes and individual training

Posted on December 21, 2017December 9, 2021
Posted in Bloggers, Pet Health, Pet Nutrition, Tracie Hotchner

Holiday Dog Tips: The Do’s & Don’ts of Table Scraps

At holiday times there are often enticing and bountiful meals, with lots of leftovers. Can your dog share in more than the delicious aromas? That depends—but certainly whatever you share should be about the experience they’ll have of getting a few tasty licks, never in a quantity of food that would add calories or strain

Posted on December 19, 2017December 19, 2017
Posted in Pet Stories

Five-Year-Old Superhero Saves Philadelphia Stray Cats

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s “Superman Shon” – a five-year-old boy who loves cats so much that another one of his nicknames is “Catman.” According to People, Catman’s alias is Shon Griffin, a kindergartener in northeast Philadelphia. His two aunts run Kolony Kats, a foster and rescue group that also does trap, neuter,