FARMINGTON — Papi and Mackenzie are the Pets of the Week at the Franklin County Animal Shelter. Dog of the Week Papi is a 3-year-old of unconfirmed breed who likes to give kisses and go on long walks. Papi is comfortable with some dogs, but would do best in a home without cats. Papi has […]
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Huge, homely mastiff named Martha wins world's ugliest dog
PETALUMA, Calif. — Martha is big, ugly, lazy and gassy. And a world champion. In a competition annually dominated by the old, the tiny, and the hairless, the 3-year-old, 125-pound Neapolitan Mastiff used her lollygagging youth to win the 29th annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest. She was a favorite of the Northern California crowd from […]
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Scruffy little dog named Gobi scores book, movie deals
NEW YORK — As dog stories go, this one about a scruffy little stray named Gobi has legs for miles. The sand-colored pooch with big, soulful eyes has a book out and movie deal after she happened on ultra-runner Dion Leonard last year during a 155-mile race across desert dunes, over mountains and through yurt […]
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GAHS event lets pet lovers name their own adoption fee
AUBURN — Those who have ever shared their life with a pet, they know: love changes everything. It changes mornings, routines, perspective, life — and it can change the world for animals. The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society will host the Be A Lifesaver adoption event this weekend. GAHS will have adoptable pets from 10 a.m. […]
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GAHS lists raffle winners
LEWISTON — The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society has announced the winner of the annual summer raffle. With more than $9,000 in tickets sales, the winners were Heidi Pelletier of Greene won $500 cash; Cindy Nesbit, Bowdoin, $300 cash, Phyllis Gamache, Lisbon Falls, $200 cash; Leary and Detroy, Auburn, $100 in cash; and Sonia Woodrum, Sabattus, won […]
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Communicating with pets to be explored at Lifetree Café
LEWISTON — How pets interact and communicate with humans will be explored at Lifetree Café at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 29. The program, titled “What’s Your Pet Trying to Tell You?” features a filmed interview with Alexa Boyes, a professional animal communicator. “For me, I try to be the voice of the animal and I […]
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Franklin County Animal Shelter: Pets of the Week are conversationalist, love bundle
FARMINGTON — Unk, Papi, Black Jack and Penny are recent Pets of the Week at the Franklin County Animal Shelter. Unk is a male cat, 4 to 6 years old, who is a little shy but has made a lot of progress in learning to be comfortable with people. Unk loves dogs and gets along […]
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A kitten nursery saves tiny lives in a city aiming to become ‘no kill’
LOS ANGELES — They are brought into shelters in crates, boxes and flower pots at this time of the year: Tiny, mewing kittens with eyes barely open, with pink, toothless mouths — and usually with no mother to nurse them. And here’s what it takes to keep them alive: people to hand-feed formula through a […]
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This vet wants to put your dog’s health record online. And get paid millions for it.
I was reading the Forbes list of the wealthiest, self-made women in the United States recently. One of them is Judy Faulkner, founder of a privately held software company, called Epic Systems, that keeps medical records on more than half of the American population. She is worth $2.5 billion, according to Forbes. Washington area veterinarian/entrepreneur […]