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Designer Dogs
On the bright side, it's the best example of Darwin at work that we have. The only difference is that we're the ones making the decisions instead of the ambient environment random chance. Over generations we have selectively bred the characteristics we dislike out of dogs and promoted the ones we do like. Natural selection does the same thing ...
Posted to Human Nature by Ashman on March 4, 2009
What's your solution?
I know this article is old, but nobody commented, so here goes.Does your state not have leash laws? Assuming it does, the old woman possibly broke them. The Pekingese was not properly restrained and probably could have benefited from a harness instead of a collar. I'll admit that I'm the owner of a rescued pit bull (currently undergoing ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by lizakk on December 2, 2008
Thank You!
I'm sitting here contemplating whether to put my 17 year old American Eskimo Malone down. He has endured a number of significant events in his long life, Parvo as a pup where we fed him 7up out of an eye dropper; a recent rattlesnake bite that he miraculously survived; and old dog disease that when another dog would come around on our walks, he ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by fitch on November 16, 2008
Good for Izzy
If I were dying, I'd like nothing better than a friendly cat or dog to visit me.
Posted to Heavy Petting by btraven on September 27, 2008
Hospice Dog
Not only can they comfort the dying, they can also call someone back who has lost the will to live. This I know from experiences in my own life and family. My nephew's cocker spaniel called him back from death's door when my nephew wanted to go on. he was comatose until I took the cocker spaniel to the nursing home and put him in bed with my ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by Wolf~Walker on September 24, 2008
Eating Dogs?
One society's meat is another society's poison. European-descended cultures regard dogs as domesticated companion animals, hunting partners, herders of flocks, and protection animals. We wouldn't eat them any more than we would eat our best friend. Yet in Oriental societies, eating dogs is commonplace since they aren't considered as domesticated ...
Posted to Human Nature by Vienna54 on April 17, 2008
bashing of veterinarians
I was quite surprised to read the comments and descriptions some wrote concerning their veterinarians. I thank God for the veterinarian I have (and have had for about 18 years now) because in comparison to what some have written, my veterinarian must be a Saint. In case readers are wondering, I do not work for a veterinarian and never have ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by iluvtotrndgs on October 29, 2007
You bought the ticket.....
Having read a lot of posts about many clients feeling that they are put through, or fear, or had a ''guilt trip'' laid on them I have to respond that nobody can make you feel a certain way: you have to buy the ticket for the guilt trip that you take. Of course when friend A's thoughts after bringing the dog to the veterinarian are: ''How ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by Piddlejumper on October 26, 2007
Just Put My Dog to Rest
My husband and I just put our 14-year-old female mutt to rest two weeks ago. We had had her since she was 8 weeks old (estimated by the SPCA where we adopted her), and we mourn her loss. This article struck a nerve because our grief is still fresh and because it casts the pet-vet-owner relationship in purely financial (thus adversarial) ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by strive on October 26, 2007
My story about Sammy and the rattlesnake bite.
A year and a half ago I lost my beloved Weimereiner Sammy to a rattlesnake bite. Here is my story of a shady vet at a 24 hour hospital. We were on one of our hikes in the hills near our home in Orange County, California, Sammy and I. Sammy was likely digging in a hole and unearthed a rattlesnake fresh out of hibernation. Hungry and full of ...
Posted to Heavy Petting by Bob N on October 26, 2007

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