Pets

Mutt ’n’ Strut set for Saturday
May 9, 2008
The 13th annual Lawrence Humane Society Mutt ’n’ Strut will be Saturday. Mutt ’n’ Strut is a fundraising event for the animal shelter.
Safety tips benefit pets
May 4, 2008
We may be treating our pets more like people all the time, but we shouldn’t forget some basic safety tips for interacting with them, for our protection and theirs.
Tips help reduce carbon paw prints
The Washington Post
April 21, 2008
Earth Day (Tuesday) is a good time to think about ways you might reduce your pet’s carbon paw print.
Dog crosses desert, mountains to go home
April 20, 2008
A dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop apparently made her way nearly 80 miles across Nevada’s high desert and two mountain ranges to return home a week later.
Officer battles 12-foot python in pet store
April 20, 2008
A pet store owner is calling a police sergeant a hero for saving her from the coils of a 12-foot Burmese python doing its best to turn her into a meal.
Canines, owners strut for good cause in Humane Society fundraiser
By Sue Novak
April 20, 2008
Spring is here. The daffodils are up, and the Bradford pears have burst into bloom. My family is telling me all about it: Each time I open the door, the cats fly past me and stand defiantly in the back yard, daring me to catch them. The dogs, too, wake me up with great urgency at 2:30 in the morning, and then go out in the back just to smell the breeze while I complain bitterly about not getting any younger.
Quake’s bark worse than bite
By Mark Fagan
April 19, 2008
Lisa Englebrecht isn’t accustomed to her Labs yelping, whining and pawing so early in the morning, nor her red terrier jumping up and down on the bed like it was trampoline. But Sandy, Champ and Jessie knew something their owner didn’t: The earth was shaking.
Dog-breeding policy drawing criticism
April 16, 2008
A city ordinance requiring dog breeders to buy an annual license was so ambiguously written that it could be interpreted to apply to all owners whose dogs have puppies.
‘Lost’ baby animals usually should be left alone
By Linda Lombardi - For The Associated Press
April 6, 2008
It’s human nature — who can ignore a helpless baby? But if that baby is a wild animal sitting in your backyard, the best way to help it probably is to leave it alone, wildlife experts say.
States bar vets from using lethal-injection drugs in animals
By Mark Sherman - Associated Press Writer
April 5, 2008
Nearly all lethal injection executions have occurred in states where veterinarians are not allowed to use the same method to euthanize animals, according to a new study.
Paralyzed pooch gets around with help of wee wheelchair
By Nikki Patrick - The Morning Sun
March 31, 2008
There’s something a little different about Duke, a dachshund who resides with the Linville family. Maybe it’s the wheels strapped to his rear end.
Pet peeves
Live animals popular at Easter but live long after the holiday
By Sarah Henning
March 22, 2008
The real animals of spring — and Easter — are available to make for an critter-filled Easter egg hunt that children may relish for years. But after the memories are made, after the holiday candy is long gone, that Easter animal fling will still be there.
About 350 cats taken from sanctuary
March 19, 2008
As the 3-day-old gray kitten cried softly for food Tuesday, a volunteer swaddled him in a towel and fed him formula from a dropper.
Pet lovers fight to adopt seized dogs
March 18, 2008
A frenzy of tiny-dog lovers has descended on an animal shelter that rescued hundreds of small dogs from a filthy rural Arizona home, with some potential owners getting into shoving matches.
Take action to help animals in need throughout state
By Sue Novak
March 16, 2008
Working at the Lawrence Humane Society certainly has its perks. After all, the staff members have easy access to an endless supply of purrs and wagging tails.

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