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Goodbye, Lucy. You were never less than loved
I went to the park Friday to visit a just-departed friend. The sun shone high in the brittle winter sky. A few inches of snow lay underfoot. It was her kind of day. I called her Big Dog and Monkey ...
Dog gives hope to pet owners
MIRACLE dog Cain may now be living on borrowed time, but his courage and determination is giving new hope to owners and their pets. Five years ago the Rhodesian Ridgeback cross was diagnosed with bone cancer in a front paw ...
Promising Experimental Drug Treating Dogs With Cancer
When it comes to cancer research, dogs just might be the key to unlock vital clues needed to find a cure. Veterinarians in central Massachusetts are excited about some recent results and it’s also making for some extremely thankful pet ...
Paw Prints: A healthy new year for pets
January is underway, but it’s not too late to consider New Year’s resolutions. Whether your original vows have fallen by the wayside, or you’ve decided to add another, resolving to improve your life is a win-win for sure. And if ...
ASU awarded $6.4M grant to test preventive canine cancer vaccine for dogs
The Open Philanthropy Project awarded a multi-year grant of $6,421,402 to Stephen Albert Johnston at Arizona State University to support the largest interventional canine clinical trial ever conducted. The trial will assess the effectiveness of a unique vaccine in preventing ...
Canine Cancer Hemangiosarcoma: Everything You Must Know
Not something many pet owners know about, but if you’ve just heard about hemangiosarcoma in dogs, your dog may have been diagnosed with a type of skin cancer that’s extremely difficult to treat, and is often fatal to dogs. Here’s ...
Missing your past pets this Christmas? You are not alone
There are emotional flashpoints throughout the year when you’re grieving the passing of a loved one. The first birthday, the first anniversary, the first anything. And Christmas is of course a huge hurdle if it is your first without a familiar ...
The dog who flew high, but for too short a time
Sometimes, describing a life as “blue” isn’t a bad thing. It certainly wasn’t in JetBlue’s case. The Aussie, as I often referred to him, led quite a charmed life. My first dog to come from a breeder met us when ...
I still miss D.J. eleven years after saying good-bye
It’s another last Wednesday of the month. It’s another Blogapalooz hour. We get a topic and try to write and publish something in an hour. Tonight’s topic is to write about a time you had to say goodbye. Everyone has ...
Margaret’s Dog Mom Story
A “Dog Mom”. Some people might laugh or chuckle when they hear me refer to myself as that. They clearly are not dog people 🙂 I am very much a “dog mom”. I have always considered myself a dog person. I grew ...