How to Control Ticks and Fleas

Fleas and ticks can harm your pet and make your dog uncomfortable. Well these pest can silently invite themselves onto your dog and then into your house. It irritates your dogs and may carry Lyme disease.

Companys like  Frontline, K9 Advantix and many other companies offer monthly medications given to dogs orally. Some through the application of droplets for their fur. These products protects your dog from fleas for thirty days and will kill all of the fleas within 12 hours of application.

Scooter the world smallest dog

Scooter, the tiny wonder that could fit into a tea-cup, is claim to be the world smallest dog at six months old has died.

He broke his leg jumping out of the hands of a minder earlier this week. His tiny leg was put in a cast but the medication he was given for it caused stomach ulcers and he did not survive.

Scooter slept and spent most of his life in the shoebox. He is 8cm tall, 20cm long and weight about 400 grams when fully clothed.

World's Tallest Dog Loses Leg

This is Gibson a 7 year-old Harlequin Great Dane, a 5 year Guinness World Record holder for tallest dog in which he stands 7-feet tall on his hind legs. Gibson was diagnosed earlier this year with bone cancer and had his front right leg amputated due to complications.

A dog named Bo, a gift for Obama's family

This is currently much talk about dog named Bo, a six-month-old Portuguese water dog , given to the Obama girls as a gift by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. There are mixed respond to the choice of dog for the Obama's family.

Dog shelter said it's a disapointment as Obama should have gotten a dog from the rescue. And it is interesting to read comments posted. Why not pure breed? Some would say. Does it mean that they would care less for the rescue dogs? What do you think?

As it is a gift for the Obama girls, and the girls are happy with the water dog, does it matter it is a pure breed or rescue dog ?

Service Dogs

What are service assistance dogs? They can be the hand and legs for the disabled person. Disabled person normally have dificulties in doing simple chores. They are specially trained dogs, trained to assist the dsiabled person to open and close the doors, switched on/off the lights, taking off the socks and even sweaters. To think off how much these amazing dogs can do to lighten the burden of the disabled person.


Assistance dog can even take out clothes from the washing machine and pulled the basket to the clothes hanging area, pulling the wheel chair, picking up handphone that is drop on the floor. They can open the drawers and take out the things that is required of them.

They are trully amazing dogs, aren't they!

Hearing Dogs

It is amazing how hearing dogs give assistance to these people who have hearing impaired. They alert the deaf owners of sounds like doorbell, telephone ringing, smoke alarms and all other household sounds.

With hearing dogs around the house, life has change for the deaf owners. Alerting them of dangers like smoke from the iron or gas stove and giving day to day assistances like microwave oven dings, doorbells rings.

Like this 7 years old Evie Crook, Gem the golden labrador hearing dog has transformed her life alltogether. full story .....


7yr old Evie Crook with her guide dog Gem the youngest
person to have a guide dog to help with her deafness
Photo: ROSS PARRY SYNDICATION

Life-Changing Hearing Dog of the Year

Eddie - a three-year-old hearing dog that acts as the ears for his severely deaf owner has been named Life-Changing Hearing Dog of the Year by the charity that trained him. For full story ....

Toddler killed by dogs

"A three-year-old girl has died and another child has been seriously mauled in a dog attack at a south-western NSW home." quoted from a recent news report.

The attack had devastated the small town and everyone is in a state of shock. It is terrible.

Yeah, dogs are suppose to be friendly and lovable. Such horrible things are not suppose to happen. It did happened.

What will happen to these dogs? It seems that the dogs were seized from the property and authorities were seeking to destroy them.