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Veteran Hospitalized, Service Dog Gets Care From County

May 4, 2020

    The Department of Animal Services in Riverside County picked up a service dog for temporary county care on Thursday after her owner was diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized. The dog’s owner was admitted to a hospital in Ontario, but later transferred to Loma Linda University Medical Center. The service dog couldn’t join its […]

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Legal Rights When Living In A Condo With Your Emotional-Support Animal

May 4, 2020

In British Columbia, the Strata Property Act governs the relations between stratas and their owners/tenants. This law says very little about what a strata may or may not do in relation to pets. All it says is that if you live with a pet in a condominium at the time a pet prohibition/restriction is passed, you […]

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Pet Care Businesses

May 1, 2020

Before the pandemic, the pet-service industry had just come off a successful decade, doubling in size from 2007 to 2017. With adoptions high during stay-at-home order, Twin Cities pet businesses hope owners will resume their former habits as time goes on. Dog walkers are mostly sidelined by people doing their own dog walking. Pet day […]

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Service Dogs Adjust To Social Distancing

May 1, 2020

Wednesday is International Guide Dog Day, and the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind said the coronavirus pandemic has created some unexpected challenges. “It can’t really be put into words how life-changing (the dogs) are, but they really just help break down boundaries and living life with very few limits,” said Samantha Embrico-Custer. Embrico-Custer and […]

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Service Dogs Are Essential During This Pandemic

May 1, 2020

In the midst of this global pandemic, service dogs are more essential as many who utilize their services battle with Post-Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injury and/or Military Sexual Trauma. K9s For Warriors says social distancing and the economic stress caused by COVID-19 may trigger negative feelings or actions. Service dogs will assist in alleviating any […]

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Nation’s Most Popular Purebreds

May 1, 2020

America’s dogs are having their day as the coronavirus keeps many people at home more with their pets and spurs so much adoption and fostering that some shelters’ kennels have emptied. But while much is changing for people and pooches around the country, here’s something holding as steady as a dog with a favorite toy: […]

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Office K-9 Unit

May 1, 2020

While the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the temporary closure of Goodwill Manasota’s stores and offices, its Corporate Campus was instrumental in a recent law enforcement exercise. The facility played host to a group of officers and service dogs from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit to train the dogs to sniff out “drugs” […]

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CAN’T BAN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL

May 1, 2020

A 14-year-old girl with Type 1 diabetes and mental health disabilities will be able to keep her dog after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled her strata’s bylaw banning dogs discriminated against her human rights. In the decision April 29, B.C. Human Rights Tribunal member Devyn Cousineau said the girl needed her dog because of […]

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DOG TRAINING PROGRAM

May 1, 2020

In June 2019, the Joint Regional Correctional Facility began the Dog Handler CARES Program, which allows inmates to train young dogs in basic obedience skills before the dogs go on to more specialized training to become service dogs. Since then, not only have the very first program dogs labradoodle Jericho and yellow Labrador retriever Vizer […]

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DOG-ONLY CUSTOMER

May 1, 2020

ver a rousing game of table tennis, cheered on by a pack of four shelties, heads bobbing back and forth with the ball, Jason and Katie Ast reached a pivotal decision. They would open their new pet retail business as a just-for-dogs endeavor. The couple wanted to stand apart from the competition by providing a […]

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GLOBAL DOG TRAINING SERVICES

May 1, 2020

The research report on the global Dog Training Services market offers an in-depth and extensive analysis that includes a complete view of the global market comprise the recent trend as well as the future amplitude of the global market with respect to service & products. In addition, the Dog Training Services market report offers an […]

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NEW COMFORT K-9

May 1, 2020

Officials with the Williston Police Department announced the addition of a new comfort K-9 this week — Duke. After joining the department on May 3, he will be its only service dog and will be overseen by an officer. Duke was donated from Boonefield Labradors in New Hampshire. The puppy will have to undergo a […]

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PAWS FOR PETS

May 1, 2020

My husband and I have decided to write a few articles about some of our adventures we have had while trying to catch dogs. Over the next few months, we will write an article here and there about a rescue we have been a part of. Today, I want to tell you about Layla the […]

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PET ADOPTIONS IMPACTED BY COVID-19

May 1, 2020

People have shown an increased interest in fostering rescue animals since COVID-19 has prompted many to stay at home. Deann Shepherd is the director of marketing and communications at The Humane Society of Utah, a private nonprofit located in Murray. She said so many people have applied to take in an animal that the Humane […]

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Reward offered for information on dog, wildlife poisonings

April 30, 2020

Wildlife officials continue to ask for the public’s help in solving a series of dog deaths that may be connected to the poisoning deaths of other dogs and wildlife. DNR reports another dog poisoning, may be connected to other cases In this month alone, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said four dogs have died under […]

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There’s More To Muncie! PineAcre Kennels and Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies

April 30, 2020

Muncie, IN—There’s More to Muncie! We have all heard that phrase by now on the radio and the special #MoreToMuncie campaign. But what does that mean? To Hailey Perkins and Amber Corduan, it means there is more to this community than you might see. There is a whole community of pet people that make Muncie an interesting, well-known, and diverse […]

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Hawk Was Off To A Great Start—And Then Came Coronavirus

April 30, 2020

School Resource Officer Len Gosselin recently retired his narcotics/search-and-rescue dog Spyder after their 9 and a half years of collaboration. “I’ve worked 27 of my 28 years on the job as a canine officer,” Gosselin said. He was ready for something new and thought raising a puppy to first be a comfort dog in the […]

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Dogs with Wings Assistance Dog Society looking for volunteers to raise puppies

April 30, 2020

Dogs with Wings, an organization that trains and provides service and assistance dogs, is looking for volunteers to raise puppies in Grande Prairie. Dogs with Wings provides assistance dogs around Alberta, and is based out of Edmonton. They have satellite operations in Grande Prairie and Calgary. They have been operating in Grande Prairie for about […]

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Non-profit service dog foundation must pause services at a time when they are needed most

April 30, 2020

The Independence Service Dogs Foundation, an Orange County non-profit organization, helps facilitate service dog training. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they have paused many of their services at a time when they are needed most. Co-founders Justine Puliafico and Nikki Esser created the foundation in 2018 to supply well-screened and properly trained therapy dogs […]

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The shadow family violence pandemic – and the link to animal abuse

April 30, 2020

Analysis – Covid-19 presents additional risks to already-vulnerable people and to their pets, which may be the only source of trusted companionship and love in an abusive relationship. Evidence shows domestic violence increases during and after  economic crises and pandemics. There is increasing anecdotal evidence that while government-imposed lockdowns are helping to contain Covid-19, a “shadow […]

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