On this page the following entries were made in the “July, 2011” time-frame.
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Pill-Popping Pets
July 13, 2008 Pill-Popping Pets By JAMES VLAHOS Max retrieves Frisbees. He gobbles jelly beans. He chases deer. He is — and this should be remembered when discussions of cases like his blunder into the thickets of cognitive ethology, normative psychology and intraspecies solipsism — a good dog. A 3-year-old German shepherd, [...]
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declawing.. Rip out your nails and amputate the tips of your fingers
Am I sounding like a bleeding heart “humaniac”.. ? If you MUST have a de-clawed cat, get one that has been dumped at he pound.. maybe dumped because many de-claws poop on soft surfaces. Why? When the weather changes or it’s cold, the amputated area can hurt.. like when you have broken a bone and [...]
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