The Maryland SPCA is looking for photogenic dogs (and other animals) to be in their 2009 calendar. There’s a $35 entry fee & you will receive a calendar. All qualified entries will appear in the calendar, and some will be featured prominently. From the pool of submitted pictures, the SPCA will select the most captivating photos to feature on the cover as Pet-of-the-Month.
As much as you love your dog, you can’t be in the picture 
You’d better hurry though, you have less than a month to submit your pooches picture. The deadline is June 2, 2008, Maryland residents only. For more details and an entry form, visit the SPCA’s calendar webpage or call Carrie Price at 410-235-8826, ext. 133.
A company has come out with “dog armour” to protect your dog from other dog’s attacks. It doesn’t look very comfortable & looks like it may’ve been designed primarily for fighting Pit Bulls, but it could come in handy for any dog.
Our girl Hopey was attacked by a much larger dog who ended up doing so much damage that Hopey had to have 45 stitches! She’s fine now but she sure could’ve used some dog armour.
Doggie social networking websites are nothing new. There are a few of them. They’re basically a MySpace for dogs & their owners. But a new site not only offers a meeting place, but it also offers the first ever Amber Alert for dogs.
If your dog comes up missing, there’s a free service at Dognamic.com to find your pup & hopefully reunite the two of you fairly quickly.
The site features a virtual flier for missing dogs. Users can create a personal profile page for their dogs, then drop it into the Missing Mode. Members within a designated distance from the missing animal’s ZIP code will be notified by the Web site’s ticker system, which is similar to the news scroll we see at the bottom of the television screen.
Their sister site at DogAmberAlert.com is scrolling Amber Alerts all the time for 6 different US cities. It looks like if you live within 50 miles of any of these cities, you can put out your own doggie Amber Alert. It’s a new site, so I’m sure that once more dog owners find out about it, more cities will be included.
I think it’s a great idea. Check it out & spread the word!
In Whitworth, UK, the local council is trying to get a £25 levy passed that would tax all dog owners in order to deal with the growing problem of irresponsible dog owners not picking up after their dogs.
It doesn’t seem fair that all dog owners should be taxed and there has been a mixed response, but Whitworth has been described as ‘the dog dirt capital of the North West.’ The city used to use money from dog licenses but now all dogs are microchipped. The extra revenue would be used to pay for more animal control officers to enforce responsibility.
Is it fair? What do you think?
