Every year on Christmas Eve nightWith ears perked up and eyes all brightShiny, black noses raise to the skyWaiting for a reindeer scent to go by.. No growls, snarls, or barks this eveHe comes with magic up his sleeve..Liver, bones, and treats galore,Every puppy has love in store... Black nose greets red in perfect delight,A canine greeting for Santa tonight....Every dog knows that this night of all, Means happiness for humans, and puppies all...... Here he comes the man in red...He knows the children will all be in bed....Calling to the dogs "Come out!" he'll sayHe pulls out a rubber ball "It's time to play!" Treats and liver are fine, and tasty too, But a dog really wants to just play with you....Santa Claus knows this and sees it done, Because playing with dogs is just too much fun! "Good heavens!" after a while he cries"Look at the clock; look at how time flies!I must be off, I have many things to do, But YOU will see me to play tomorrow too!" For the humans it seems to be once a year, That Santa comes with his little reindeer..., But the dogs, oh the dogs, get him every night?You know, that seems to be just about right! They all know the real truth you seeThe dogs know much more than you or me...They know how to love, and to bring good cheer And they know how to do it every night of the year. Please do not forget to donate a few dollar to save the dogs at Dogcents.
A dog was hailed as a hero on Sunday after it risked its life to save a litter of newborn kittens from a house fire, rescuers said.
In a case which gives the lie to the saying about 'fighting like cats and dogs', the terrier cross named Leo had to be revived with oxygen and heart massage after his ordeal. Fire broke out overnight at the house in Australia's southern city of Melbourne, where he was guarding the kittens.
Fire fighters who revived Leo said he refused to leave the building and was found by them alongside the litter of kittens, despite thick smoke.
"Leo wouldn't leave the kittens and it nearly cost him his life," fire service Commander Ken Brown told reporters.
The four kittens also survived the fire and Sunday Leo,
Bernann McKinney's late pit bull has been reborn as five cloned puppies -- the first successful commercial canine cloning, and no doubt the dawn of a new age.
The joyous American pet owner held the clones of her beloved terrier, Booger, at a press conference Tuesday in South Korea. She's the inaugural customer of RNL Bio, a company that teamed up with Seoul National University, which gave us the world's first cloned dog emerged in 2005.
"It's a miracle," McKinney told reporters. But might a world filled with duplicate dogs and copycats be more rightfully called a Sci-Fi nightmare?
For those of you who favor traditional parenthood (and animal husbandry), please note that the pups were nursed by two surrogate bitches, both mixed breed dogs.
Source: the Web
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A Polish woman who couldn't bear being separated from her ex's dog could face up to five years behind bars for trying to steal the animal.
Beata Wolotka, 36, of Olsztyn, had begged her former partner to let her take the golden retriever for walks every now and again when they decided to split up.
He agreed. But when she failed to bring the dog back after taking him out for a stroll, the owner reported her to the police.
A police spokesman said: "The lady told us that she had grown extremely fond of the dog during her relationship with her ex and was very happy when he agreed to let her walk it.
"But she said she could no longer bear to be apart from it. She is distraught when she is not with it.
"It is hard to tell whether in her previous relationship she was more fond of the dog or her male partner."Dog News on the web
We know our siblings and in-laws have personalities — sometimes to a fault. But science recently has revealed that such individual differences are widespread in the animal kingdom, even reaching to spiders, birds, mice, squid, rats and pigs.
Now a new mathematical model helps to explain how and why such animal temperaments develop over time.
The model explains a central question of both animal and human personality — why certain individuals are more rigid or flexible than others, and why some change their behavior in response to changes in their environment while others do not.
The field of animal-personality study is starting to gain some substance and credibility, said University of Texas psychologist Sam Gosling, who does research in this field.
"When I started doing this, like 10 years ago, things were really different. I remember people thought it was anthropomorphic [to use the term animal personality]," said Gosling, who was not involved in the recent study.
Prestigious scientific journals are publishing research articles explicitly on the topic of animal personality, he said.
"I think it does reflect a new sense of respect in the field and I think it's opening up all kinds of important opportunities and allowing us to test questions we simply couldn't test without animal studies," Gosling said.
Individuals coexist
The researchers also found animal personalities tend to persist. That's because, as the adage goes, practice makes perfect. Individuals who are responsive gain experience, so it behooves them to continue such behavior in the future.
"Individuals that have been responsive before have a slight advantage in collecting or interpreting environmental cues," Weissing told LiveScience. "This is a plausible assumption, since the performance of individuals generally improves with the experience they have."
Similar personality types also exist in humans. "Some humans behave rather routine, in a rigid way. And others behave in a rather flexible way," Weissing said. "The first type is rather traditional, conservative, always following the trodden path of the past, whereas the other type is more interested in change, interested in the environment, always sampling the environment."
While the model simulations didn't directly analyze human behavior, Weissing said there is a crossover between non-human animals and the rest of the animal kingdom.
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A dog believed to be the oldest in the world has died, aged 29 years.
Until Bella the record for the oldest dog was held by Butch, a 28-year-old from America who died in 2003 Photo: Page One
Bella, a Labrador cross, was bought by David Richardson from the RSPCA, 26 years ago when she was three years old.
She had lived with Mr Richardson, 76, and his partner Daisy, 81, since 1982 in Clay Cross, Derbyshire.
But she was put down on Saturday following a heart attack while on holiday with the couple.
Until Bella the record for the oldest dog was held by Butch, a 28-year-old from America who died in 2003, according to the Guinness World Records. Officially, the oldest ever dog was Bluey, a sheepdog from Australia, who lived to 29.
Although Mr Richardson, from Clay Cross, has no official documentation to prove Bella's age, he insists she was 29.
"We had just come up to Mablethorpe – we always go to the same place on holiday because we can take the dogs," said Mr Richardson.
"We had barely been here for an hour when Bella started panting and yelping and collapsed in front of the sofa.
"We took Bella to the vet but she was so ill she had to be put to sleep. It was very upsetting. We will miss her a lot.
"Lots of people came to see us and to wish Bella goodbye. Our friends and neighbours were very fond of her,
The RSPCA does not hold records stretching back to when Mr Richardson bought Bella and the Guinness World Records says Bella could not have been included because their was no documentation. Source:Guinness World Records
Thirteen golf balls were found inside Oscar.
A dog had to have 13 golf balls removed from its stomach after eating them on walks around a Fife course.
Owner Chris Morrison had been taking five-year-old black labrador Oscar round the Pitreavie golf course in Dunfermline for several months.
He took Oscar to the vet after noticing a rattling sound coming from his pet's stomach.
They then discovered that 13 balls - each weighing 45 grams - were lodged in his stomach.
Mr Morrison, a planning administrator, said one of the balls had been in his stomach so long that it had turned black and was decomposing.
He said: "He finds golf balls like truffles. We're not sure how long exactly this happened over, but it must have been a fair period - several months at least.
"I felt his stomach and heard them rattling around.
"He normally brings a few home, but I had no idea he had eaten so many.
He is a black lab so he is a fair size, but to swallow 13 is quite amazing
Chris Morrison
"The vet hadn't seen anything like it, it was bizarre.
"He is a black lab so he is a fair size, but to swallow 13 is quite amazing."
The balls were removed two weeks ago in a successful hour-long operation.
Bag full
Oscar is now on the road to making a full recovery on a special post-operation diet of watered-down food.
He also has to wear a muzzle while out and about.
Mr Morrison added: "He does get a bit frustrated now and again."
Bob Hesketh, 40, principal vet at Vetrica in Rosyth, said he had never seen anything like it.
He said: "It was like a magic trick. I opened him up and felt what I thought was two or three golf balls.
"But they just kept coming until we had a bag full.
"I think they must have been in there for several months, one was all black and the shell was swollen."
Source: BBC news
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A 12-week-old puppy which was being trained to become a police dog has been stolen from a back garden.
West Midlands Police said black German Shepherd Xamm was last seen at about 1900 BST on Wednesday at the house in Stourbridge.
She was being looked after by one of the force's puppy walkers and was wearing a collar with a West Midlands Police tag on it.
Police said they were concerned Xamm had not finished her course of jabs.
Insp Stuart Manley, head of the force dog unit, said: "All of us at the dog unit, and the family who were looking after Xamm, are upset by this incident.
"She is a lovely puppy who has just come into our training programme.
"We are primarily concerned about having the dog returned as she needs scheduled veterinary treatment, and appeal to anyone who knows of her whereabouts to get in contact."
He added that black German Shepherds were rare so hoped she would be easy to spot.
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