TOPSHAM — Midcoast Humane is teaming up with Petco for “All for Holiday Homes,” a large-scale adoption weekend on Dec. 1 and 2 at the Petco store in the Topsham Fair Mall. Dozens of puppies, kittens, adult dogs and cats will be up for adoption and awaiting their forever homes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday […]
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Wash. Rinse. Blow-dry. Bark!
HERSHEY, Pennsylvania — On a stage in a conference hall in central Pennsylvania, at least 14,000 years after humans domesticated wolves into dogs, Milena Kon was turning a dog into a gazelle. And an elephant. And a lion. And a giraffe. This evolution, taking place during one of the nation’s highest-profile dog grooming competitions, involved […]
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Millennials plan to spend big this holiday season — on their pets
Millennials love their pets, and that love’s showing up on their holiday credit-card bills. The much-discussed generation of shoppers, known for their industry-disrupting tastes, will spend heavily on their pets this holiday season — more than double what consumers overall are expected to pony up, according to a report from PwC. Millennial households earning $70,000 […]
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More home appliances for pets hitting store shelves in Japan
An increasing number of home appliances for pets are hitting the shelves in Japan, such as cameras that allow owners to watch the adorable actions of their dogs and cats from outside their home. Home appliance makers are beefing up efforts to develop high-quality products, pinning their hopes on an increasing trend of pet owners […]
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Famous actors like Liam Neeson enjoy reminiscing about the quality time spent with their horse co-stars
If you met Liam Neeson, would you ever forget him? No? Neither did this horse. While at the New York Film Festival recently, Neeson marveled at how the animal who pulls his character’s wagon in the upcoming Coen brothers Western “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” remembered the actor from a previous project. The horse pawed […]
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USDA's enforcement of animal welfare laws plummeted in 2018, agency figures show
Two years ago, the Agriculture Department issued 192 written warnings to breeders, exhibitors and research labs that allegedly violated animal welfare laws, and the agency filed official complaints against 23, according to agency data. This year, those figures plummeted: The department had issued just 39 warnings in the first three-quarters of fiscal 2018, and it […]
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Training and taming pet birds
Interacting with a companion animal is one of the joys of pet ownership. While certain pets seem more naturally inclined toward interaction than others, such as cats and dogs, many pets can be made more social with the right training. Many people love having tame and trained birds as pets. Opinions vary as to which […]
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Secrets of the royal ravenmaster at the Tower of London
LONDON — There are some weird gigs associated with the British royal household. There’s a keeper of the queen’s stamps. Who knew? There’s a piper to the sovereign and a grand carver and a royal clock winder. And then there’s the ravenmaster, Christopher Skaife, charged with caring for the seven corvids that reside at the […]
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Answering the calls of injured wildlife
QUINCY, Fla. — As the city of Tallahassee woke up relieved last week that it had been spared from Hurricane Michael’s most brutal gusts, Teresa Stevenson woke up nervous in a den of screeching animals 20 miles away. She was cut off from the world in a trailer in a 36-acre forest, a quarter-mile down […]
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Drunk birds are causing havoc in a Minnesota town
Police in Gilbert, Minnesota, are warning residents about a group of youthful residents unable to handle their alcohol. They’ve been drifting around town looking disoriented, narrowly avoiding getting hit by cars. But these aren’t teenagers getting drunk. Instead, it’s the local bird population. “The Gilbert Police Department has received several reports of birds that appear […]