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She was bloodied and broken when she was brought into the 24-hour animal hospital located in Manchester, NH, about an hour north of Boston. Her name was Molly, a 3-year-old Australian Collie who had just suffered four broken legs after being hit by a plow. Her owner came to the Read More

Mama Star has used up several of her nine lives but she keeps fighting and it looks like the worst of her problems may finally be over. Unfortunately for the kind Good Samaritan who took her in from a New York alley and has funded all of her care, the bills have mounted to a sum Read More

Pulling fingernails off with a pair of tweezers is something we imagine happens in some torture chamber during wartime, in order for someone to gain important information. But according to many people, that’s exactly what we do when we declaw our cats (and heck, they never tell Read More

  Both ear cropping and tail docking, along with removal of dew claws, began as a practice to protect the dog while he was doing his job. In gun dog the tail was docked to prevent injury when out hunting in heavy brush. In breeds whose main function was as a guard dog, Read More

A 13 year old Jack Russell Terrier, named Jack, gave his owner, Tim Kelleher, a scare recently. When trying to reach a bag of bagels, he managed to knock over both bagels and a bag of change. While licking up the crumbs he also managed to ingest $1.11 in pennies. The zinc in Read More