Archive for May, 2010

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With so many pet stories posted around the web every week, it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news from around the internayz.

• SF wants to ban the sale of small pets (hamsters, rats, chinchillas, etc.) in pet stores. We vote yes! (SFist)

• Funny or sad? Yellow Lab dances the merengue. (Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog)

• Ducks make better kitten sitters than insurance brokers. (L.A. Unleashed)

• Hamsteak Alimony III‘s roommate raps about baby sloths. (Rapping Memes)

• The 9-year-old behind Blankets Fur
  Beasties delivers 439 throws, pet toys, and treats to Greater Cleveland shelters. What have you done for animals today? (Cleveland.com)

Image: Hey Christine

I love all dogs, but I admit that mutts have an especially strong hold over my heart. How can you not love an underdog? So, I was pleased as punch to read about Otis and Diesel, two mixed breed dogs who competed at an American Kennel Club sponsored dog
show at the Mattaponi Kennel Club in Virginia. The dogs were the only two out of 40 dogs in the show that were mutts, and it’s the first time in 125 years that non-pure bred dogs, or “All American” dogs as they AKC is calling them, were allowed to participate!

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Pops was in the wine store stocking up on vino while this furball kept watch from the Jeep.