Facebook groups among top dogs at finding missing pets

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One Barrie-area group boasts more than 14,000 followers and another has 6,400, so there’s plenty of eyes and ears out in the community It’s a pet owner’s worst nightmare. Calling out for your little loved one and getting no response. Finding a door taught when it shouldn’t be, or a sudden escape from a car. Panic sets in and you don’t know what to do next. Putting up posters in your neighborhood and hoping for the best has always been one way to try and recover a lost pet, but nowadays the internet is the go-to place for searching for…

Charlotte + Harper | South Haven MI Pet Photography | Kat Ku | Modern Dog and Cat Photos. Ann Arbor| Detroit | Chicago| NYC

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Today is a significant day for Charlotte and Harper’s humans. One year ago today, Charlotte was diagnosed with Large B Cell Lymphoma at 2.5 years old, which is crazy young. Upon diagnosis, Charlotte went through a series of chemo and radiation therapy, and has been in remission since the beginning of 2019. She is now being trained to be a therapy dog ​​to help children and adults fight back against cancer. Kristin and I met through the wonderful pet community on Instagram since her and her boyfriend, Ryan, both live in NYC. She had always wanted to do a session…

PAWsively Social teaches pet owners to train their dogs

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PAWsively Social Canine Adventures has seven instructors and offers a variety of different classes Tammy Williams started PAWsively Social Canine Adventures after years of training dogs as a hobby. Williams was mentoring under other instructors and volunteering at rescue shelters. She saw a lot of dogs being surrendered due to behavioral issues, which further inspired her to start her own facility to teach owners how to train their dogs. PAWsively Social works closely with owners and dogs to help them adapt to their surroundings and curb any behavioral issues. Williams highlights the importance of socializing puppies. Their puppy perks program…

Chewy, Petco tout health care as a path to profits

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Monty Rakusen | Culture | Getty Images If there’s one thing that’s clear from Chewy and Petco’s latest earnings reports, it’s that pet health care will be key to whether the companies can grow and make higher profits over the longer term. The retailers, which both released their quarterly earnings on Wednesday, began investing heavily into pet health when the pandemic-fueled pet boom saw 23 million American households welcome a new animal into their homes. The boom turned the overall US pet market into a $123.6 billion dollar powerhouse in 2021, and it’s expected to grow to $200 billion by…

ZooMiami’s search for plastic bottles includes crocodiles’ guts

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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – When a plastic bottle fell into the area where two endangered crocodiles, Leroy and Princess, live at ZooMiami, the fear of a potentially deadly digestive obstruction prompted veterinarians to act quickly. Award-winning photographer Ron Magill, a spokesman for the zoo, reported Wednesday that the Cuban crocodiles had to be sedated to undergo radiographs on Tuesday at the zoo’s animal hospital. “Over the years, everything from cell phones to sunglasses have been retrieved from the bellies of animals at the zoo, causing significant stress and in some cases, physical harm,” Magill wrote in a statement. In 2019,…

Facial recognition app can identify your pet’s face with 99% accuracy

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Many of us chip our pets these days to keep track of them if anything ever happens. Although, a new AI-driven pet ID app may be aiming to have us forget chips and use our phone’s camera to ID our pets’ faces. This technology eliminates the need for microchipping and provides a more convenient way to track our pets. The app allows pet owners to register their pets and store their facial features in a database. Then, if the pet ever goes missing, the app could be used to scan photos of pets found to identify if they match the…

Disc golf helps a grieving father find a new passion, purpose in life | News

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Three things become evident when you speak with Bart Altman: He deeply loves his daughter, was devastated by her death and disc golf saved his life. Altman, 60, was 27 years and 10 months old when Alexandria Anne was born. Alex loved animals. She had three dogs and worked at the pet day care area and clinic. She was kind and loving, her father said. “I remember taking her to New York for her 16th birthday,” he said. “She was very troubled because the homeless people didn’t have umbrellas, so she got some and handed them out.” The world…

Man ‘possessed by demons’ accused of killing family pets

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MESA, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) – An Arizona man is accused of killing three family pets while threatening his mother with a knife. KPHO reports that 20-year-old Jason Sperry was taken into custody on Monday after a woman called police saying she had just returned home and her son had threatened to kill her. Authorities said the woman told them that her son had killed all of their pets in the apartment and that he would kill her too “if she did not repent.” Sperry reportedly then chased her out of the apartment with a knife. When the police arrived, they…