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With so many pet stories around the web each week it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• Not just for kisses and cuddles anymore, dogs are found to be of service to people with mental health disorders… (CNN)
• …and also for children with Autism.  Two todes pawesome stories straight out of the gate!  (Huffington Post)
• Charms, chains, chokers, chickens.  (Trendland)
• Finally,  now my cats and I can blatantly pretend to ignore each other because we’ve all our headphones in.  (Catsparella)
• My best guess is that the perp in question was small, fuzzy and looked just like a hamster running down the street with a cat.  (NPR)

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With so many pet stories around the web each week it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• This Olympian’s pup takes the gold, silver and bronze in the competitive sport of Naughtiness.  (Yahoo!)
• I’m totally doing this because I fully suspect that my cat Arthur – who loves to swim in the water and watch me shower – is part seal and part crazy.  (Wired)
• This New Mexico’s town dog Blue is breaking their laws…but legally.  (Fox News)
• Seriously, Kia should just start building cars in the shape of hamsters and then they would fly off the show room floor.  (AdAge)
• Dude looks like a dog lover.  (TIME)

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A couple of weekends ago, my friends and I were driving through Pescadero on the way home from camping in Butano State Park and we drove by this magical miniature horse named Tesla. Of course, we had to stop the car and say hello.

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With so many pet stories around the web each week it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• She’s not just another pretty face, she’s Kate Beckinsale: Pet Detective  (People Pets)
• Stubbs the cat has been the Mayor of an Alaska town for 15 years running. I both love this and cheers this state’s (rumored) lenient marijuana smoking policies.  (Jezebel)
• The sun will come out, tomorrow so you gotta hang on ’cause you could be a dog in a shelter one day and living in NYC and tap dancing your cares away on stage the next!  (New York Daily News)
• I would give it all to see a successful experimental turtle surgery episode on House next season.  (Associated Press)
• Nope, your pets can’t vote. But they sure can help you to.  (Huffington Post)

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