We Need The Dog and Cat Fur Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007

Protect consumers and animals by stopping the sale of fur from raccoon dogs—a member of the dog family sometimes skinned alive in China—and requiring all fur garments to be labeled. Recent HSUS tests showed that animal fur is frequently mislabeled or marked as faux fur.

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By Stephanie Garcia Krenrich
The Albuquerque Tribune
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Before Susan Erika Argeres gets her needles ready for her next patient, she puts her stool on top of the examining table.

“Tucker likes to mark his territory,” she says.

That’s pretty typical on a visit to the vet for dogs like Tucker, a 3-year-old Welsh terrier. What comes next might not be.

Argeres is a doctor of veterinary medicine. But she’s also a certified veterinary acupuncturist and part of what she says is a growing trend in Albuquerque.

She plies her needles at various clinics in Albuquerque and makes several house calls a day. In 2003, Argeres opened Argeres Animal Alternatives, where she does massage and acupuncture.

In all, she estimates there are about 25 holistic vets in Albuquerque, 15 of whom do acupuncture. Click to read more of this article on dog acupuncture www.abqtrib.com

Jeanie Marie Kraft, Lic.Ac. is keeping tails wagging on the North Shore of MA with K9 acupuncture house-calls. Jeanie is also treating dogs with acupuncture at the DoggieDay Play Center in Boston.Visit FourPawsAcupuncture.com for more information.

CAMP, Oregon (AP) — Thanks to a high-tech gadget and a warm dog, three climbers who were rescued from Mount Hood are expected to be fine.

They were found at about the 7,400-foot level on Monday and hiked down the mountain with their rescuers.

“I’m really glad they were there for us,” Matty Bryant, one of the three climbers, said of the rescue teams. “They did an incredible job. They were amazing.” (Watch the dog and rescued climbers after coming down the mountain )

Searchers credited the group’s rescue to two things — Velvet, a black Labrador mix dog who provided warmth as the three climbers huddled under sleeping bags and a tarp, and the activation of an emergency radio beacon the size of a sunglasses case that guided them to the group. click here to read more from CNN

Good girl Velvet!

Jeanie Marie Kraft, Lic.Ac. is keeping tails wagging on the North Shore of MA with K9 acupuncture house-calls. Jeanie is also treating dogs with acupuncture at the DoggieDay Play Center in Boston.Visit FourPawsAcupuncture.com for more information.

Jeanie Marie Kraft, Lic.Ac. is keeping tails wagging on the North Shore of MA with K9 acupuncture
house-calls. Now treating Boston dogs at the DoggieDay Playcenter in the South End.
Visit FourPawsAcupuncture.com for more information.

BY ELLIOTT MINOR Associated Press
click here to read this story from www.suburbanchicagonews.com

THOMASVILLE, Ga. — A south Georgia woman bloodied in a car wreck says she owes her life to a German shepherd who — thankfully — just wouldn’t stay in his yard.

Shannon Lorio says that after her car careened down an embankment, the wayward dog found her bruised and battered on the vehicle’s trunk, pulled her by her shirt collar, dragged her about 50 yards through briars to a highway and let her lean against him so she could flag a passing motorist.

His new name: Hero.

”That dog is always going to have a special place in my heart,” Lorio said Friday. ”He’s my hero.”

Hero’s previous owners have signed him over to the Thomasville-Thomas County Humane Society since the Jan. 26 accident because he kept wandering off.

He won’t be in the shelter long: Not only have at least 50 people offered to adopt him, a dog trainer has agreed to see if he has the right stuff for search and rescue work.

Lorio’s car tumbled backward down an embankment in a remote, heavily wooded area. She said she lost control on a curve and was thrown onto the trunk.

”I was bleeding from my face and my nose,” she said. ”All of a sudden, I felt a presence — a really huge presence. He was straddling me. I have watched too many horror movies about werewolves and vampires. I thought he was going to eat me.”

Instead, the dog licked her face, she said.

The 2-year-old dog, weighing 70 pounds, dragged the 136-pound Lorio to the highway, then stood by to help her summon help before she collapsed, she said.

Lorio, 36, of Pavo, said she can’t adopt Hero because she already has six dogs, but she’s showered him with gifts including a huge bone and a stuffed animal.

”If he ever needs anything, I’ll be there,” she said.

Dog trainer Heidy Drawdy, of Thomasville, will take Hero next week to see if he’s cut out to be a search and rescue dog.

First item on the agenda for the wandering canine: obedience training.