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Pet Airways Now Flys Pets to Ten U.S. Cities

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Lori Thomas Dickert
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Orlando, FL - Pet Airways is calling all traveling cats, dogs, and other family pets to fly "first class" in safety and comfort to Orlando, Fl this summer, as the airline is expanding!  Orlando will be the airlines tenth city in the United States.  Launched in 2009, Pet Airways is a pet-only airline where your pets travel in the main cabin, not the cargo hold.  The new Orlando facility will feature a new style of pet lounge, and will offer enhanced services, including ground transportation and grooming. In addition to the overall pampering your pet will receive, the main cabin has been specifically tailored to accommodate their needs, including in-flight pet attendants keeping the climate controlled.  Pet Airways makes it easy for your pets to travel with services including convenient check-in, potty breaks, personal boarding of each pet by a pet-attendant, and constant attention during the entire flight. Pet Airways ensures that your pets are in the good hands of ...

Pets Get Their Own Exclusive Food Pantry

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Darrell Simmons
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White Plains, NY - In this tough economy, some pet owners are abandoning their pets because they can no longer afford to feed them. This is the reason that in 2009, Susan Katz of White Plains, New York decided to retire from her job as the office manager of the White Plains Traffic Department  and opened the first ever Pet Food Pantry exclusively for pets in the country.  You see, Susan Katz loves all kinds of pets from dogs to hamsters. "I was watching a story on the news about how the bad economy was putting a strain on pet owners and how so many pets were being abandoned or dropped off at shelters because people could no longer afford to keep them," she said. "That really stuck with me. I started doing some research and found out that there was no pet food pantry in Westchester. Some humane societies and ...

Former Vick Property Could Become Dog Sanctuary

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Kurt Overlock
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Surry County, VA - NFL player, Michael Vick, stands to watch his former home in Surry County become the Good Newz Rehab Center for chained and penned dogs, as announced on February 4th.  A Pennsylvania-based animal rights group, Dogs Deserve Better, is attempting to raise a minimum of $600,000 by March 20 to purchase the property to create a animal sanctuary. If the purchase of the property is successful, Dogs Deserve Better will acquire the 4600 square foot home resting on 15 acres of land that was once known as the Bad Newz Kennels dog-fighting operation.  In addition, the property comes complete with kennels and shelters, which will be updated during the project. Dogs Deserve Better is a national non-profit agency focused on taking care of abused and abandoned dogs, and freeing them from chains and penned environments.  "There are 15 acres where we will build a state-of-the-art dog caretaking facility and train these neglected, unsocialized dogs to live inside as part of ...

Zebrafish Hold Key To Fighting Heart Disease

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Emilia Prestidge
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Great Britain - A popular tropical fish normally found pet aquariums may hold the key to the future of preventing heart disease. Medical researchers in the U.K. have discovered that the zebrafish possesses a unique ability to regenerate damaged heart muscles, recovering as much as twenty percent within a week of a cardiac injury. A protein molecule called thymosine beta-4, which is found in zebrafish, could become the basis of a new heart-repair drug. "The protein seems to control the growth of the epicardium membrane, which surrounds the heart, so that it triggers the formation of new cardiac tissue and blood vessels, " said Professor Paul Riley of the Institute of Child Health, University College London. "We hope to find similar molecules or drug-like compounds that might be able to stimulate these cells further. We'd really like to translate this to humans. It's an example to resident stem-cell repair," Professor Riley ...

Large Dog Pet Owners Reap Benefits of $5000 Grant

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Lilia Hillsman
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Merriam, KS - If you live close to Kansas City, get your calendars out and make an appointment to get your large dog spayed or neutered...for FREE, at No More Homeless Pets KC.  This rare opportunity was made possible by a $5000 grant given to the animal welfare organization.  It's a dream come true for the non-profit agency, who's goal is to end pet over-population through cooperative spay and neuter, humane education, and adoption programs.  The two catches to the grant are that it has to be spent by February 18, 2011, and the dogs must be owned and 40 pounds or more. No More Homeless Pets KC’s executive vice president, Courtney Thomas, said, "There are times when even low-cost services are not financially feasible for some families.  We are thrilled to have the opportunity to offer free spay and neuter services to families who want to do what is best for their ...

Stray Cat Barely Alive when Rescued From the Cold

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Lori Thomas Dickert
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Duluth, MN - It was a grim and lonely few weeks outside in the cold, snow, and ice for stray cat, later named Aslan, before a local couple realized the need to take action.  After seeing the cat outside a few times, it was apparent that the cat was desperately in need of a warm and loving environment.  Duluth Animal Shelter became that safe haven for Aslan, where he was nurtured back to good health. As a general rule of thumb, if it's too cold for you to go outside without a jacket, it's too cold to leave your pets outside, especially cats, who are prone to frostbite.  Animal control officer, Carrie Lane, described the cat upon arrival to the animal shelter as "...emaciated, its paws were frostbitten, and its ears were chewed by ear mites.  One of its ear tips had fallen off from the frostbite, and rigor mortis was beginning to set in," ...

Organic Pet Food Sales Growth Outpacing Other Pet Foods

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Bruce Eppinger
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Venice, LA - Organic foods are no longer just for humans. Many pet owners are now switching from traditional pet foods to gluten-free, raw and organic varieties. One of the more popular varieties is Sojos dehydrated dog food. It contains a mix of sweet potatoes, turkey, apples, flax meal and other ingredients and sells for $21.99 for a two pound bag which when water is added makes ten pounds of dog food. Nationwide retail sales have increased for organic and natural pet foods and are expected to grow three times as fast other pet foods through 2015 according to an industry report that came out this week from the Packaged Facts market research company. Industry analyst David Lummis, who wrote the report, estimated that natural and organics would grow 12% a year on average, hitting $2.8 billion in 2015. By comparison, he expects an average 4% annual growth rate for the ...

New Federal Law Infuriates Pet Snake Owners

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Louisa Vandermeulen
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Vero Beach, FL - After a study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey suggested that the Burmese python and eight other species of constrictor snakes as injurious wildlife under the Lacey Act, the Fish and Wildlife Service has taken steps to ban the importation as well as distribution of these snakes across states lines. Violators would be subject to penalties of six months in prison and $5,000 fine. At risk is the region in South Florida, including the Everglades, where it is believed that thousands of Burmese pythons and the other constrictors are putting already-imperiled species at greater risk. There are no distinct predators for these snakes, and they have easily adapted to the environment where food is plentiful and the climate is perfect. From the U.S.G.S assessment - "The nine include the world’s four largest snake species (Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus; Indian or Burmese Python, Python molurus; Northern African ...

Mini Pigs Are Hugely Popular

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Emilia Prestidge
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Framingham, MA - The Franceskin family of Framingham, Massachusetts fell in love with love with little pigs or "teacup pigs," as they are known in the profession, when they appeared on “The Late Show with Jay Leno”. The miniature kind of swine may be new to the MetroWest area and the state, but breeder Tammy Carlson, who runs a pig farm outside San Diego, said the cute companion animal is becoming an increasingly popular American house pet. "There's a huge demand," said Carlson, who runs PixiePigs.com. "I have a hard time even keeping up with my e-mails. I get so many inquiries about them, and we have a lot of visitors come out and see the pigs." The Franceskins are her first customers in Massachusetts. However, local Animal Control officer Katherine MacKenzie wasn’t convinced that the Franceskins could handle a pig. "This is a novelty pet," MacKenzie said. "This is something that ...

Puppy Bowl Returns to Rival Super Bowl!

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Lori Thomas Dickert
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All across the country fans and supporters gather to celebrate the largest football game of the year, the Super Bowl.  Well attention pet owners and pet lovers across America, the Puppy Bowl is the biggest game played on all fours!  After seven consecutive years, the Puppy Bowl is returning to Animal Planet, a television show watched by pet lovers all over.  It begins today, February 6, 2011 at 3:00 pm Eastern time, and runs until 3:00 am.  The Puppy Bowl, the most watched alternative to the Super Bowl, will feature 47 rescue dogs of all breeds from around the country scurrying to carry their squeaker toy across the endzone. The Puppy Bowl works like this.  Out of the 47 dogs present and accounted for, only 10 may be on the field at one time, competing to be the first to cross the endzone with the "ball".  There are fluffy toys, squeaker toys, and toys shaped like ...

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