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on this post - (2) Posts Kobe Bryant’s popularity extends even to the animal kingdom. From a database of more than 465,000 pet insured animals including dogs, cats, birds, and exotic domesticated animals, 359 are named “Kobe,” making it the 189th most popular name of 65,536 pet names across the nation. (more…)
For Halloween one needs a creative tool to dress up Fluffy and Buddy. Here it is! Dressup games. My cute pet dressup.
“Even our dogs and cats have learned that elections matter.” vice president Al Gore Click on a dog to buy a vote for Bark Obama or McCanine. (more…)
CHICAGO — More than 1,000 phony registrations were submitted, Lake County official says. (more…)
Court Reverses Bush Decision to Strip Protection From Wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. (more…)
Send Comments to Secretary Kempthorne. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced devastating changes to the Endangered Species Act, signaling the end of protection for thousands of imperiled species. (more…)
TOKYO — Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a low-fat diet after developing potbellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances. (more…)
SLAMORADA, Fla. — A dog is recovering after a Florida Keys carpenter dove in to save his pet from a shark. (more…)
MEXICO — A five-ton elephant was killed by a bus after it escaped from a circus in Mexico, and wandered onto a busy highway. (more…)
Kobe Bryant’s popularity extends even to the animal kingdom. From a database of more than 465,000 pet insured animals including dogs, cats, birds, and exotic domesticated animals, 359 are named “Kobe,” making it the 189th most popular name of 65,536 pet names across the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
PM has not had pet products posted for quite a while.
For the chicken-lovin golfer in your family — or the golfer who won’t drive it across the water hazzard, the perfect gift(s)
inspiration from speedcat hollydale and rennyBA
Off topic: I am killing time, waiting for a client to give me the go-ahead. Idle mind, idle fingers. This is what it gets you…
via speedcat hollydale four-legged chickens and a starwars-like attack of the clones group photograph.
note: PM did demonstrate one-upsmanship via bigger is better And, if you do indeed fetish chickens you might check these links…
are you calling me chicken?
chicken bones are evil
artist draws baby chickens progress daily
you don’t deserve chicken
we are currently looking for the training video.
note: squirrel(s) did not get hurt—looks like same guy to us.
A few posts ago PM presented incredible polar bear photos. The images by themselves are remarkable. But the polar bear is more than the largest predator on this planet. They have become a global warming symbol. It’s an easy analogy. The bears live on ice. The ices is melting. Easy picture here. Here is another polar bear story, and another global warming hot-spot.
The bears may have more problems…
Today Salon.com. comes to the forefront highlighting yet another polar bear worry. Part of their story is in this post with a link to the full story…
If your idea of a good time is paying $25,000 to journey to the frozen north in Canada to shoot a polar bear—making you one of the more than 50 American “sportsmen” who do so every year—you’re not happy about the lawsuits and recriminations over whether the Bush administration should grant new protections to polar bears. After all, those darn regulations could interfere with your bringing home a furry white rug for your living room floor.
In the reams of press about the increasing deaths of polar bears, the role of trophy hunters and the Inuit who help them is often missing. In the Canadian territories where the polar bear lives, the government sets quotas for the number of bears that can be hunted each year. The Canadian Inuit, who are paid by hunters to help them stalk the bears, and American hunting associations have become vocal adversaries to environmentalists and Congress members who in recent months have battled the Department of Interior, with its Bush-Cheney oil connections, to safeguard the polar bear.
Today, there are between 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears worldwide, according to the World Conservation Union Species Survival Commission’s Polar Bear Specialist Group, which lists the species as “vulnerable.” Between 700 and 900 polar bears are shot every year, the majority of those taken in Canada, according to Andrew Derocher, a biologist at the University of Alberta, who chairs the Polar Bear Specialist Group. Of the approximately 600 polar bears shot in Canada, about 15 percent of those are killed by sports hunters, many of them American, who pay between $20,000 to $35,000 for the chance to do so. Read the rest of this entry »
Uno being the first beagle to win the Westminister Kennel Club Show in 132 events got PM thinking. What is, if any, is the significance of this win, for a beagle? For the “beagle” to win “Best of Show” what are the odds? The following are “unofficial” statistics quickly taken from the WKC site:
a.k.a. uno with the muckity mucks
you have to walk the talk. hooooowwwwllllll! photo AP/peter kramer
The breeds by group (31 judges )
26 hound (best of show winner)
28 terrier
18 non-sporting
21 herding
28 sporting breeds
25 working breeds
22 toy breeds
140 total breeds (140 dogs we assume?) Read the rest of this entry »
And the envelope please…
Best in show! first beagle in 132 dog shows!
uno
How it works…
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is among the world’s most prestigious ”conformation” shows, meaning dogs are judged by how closely they conform to breed standards of build and appearance.
To qualify, dogs must have won an American Kennel Club title.
To do that, they compete in dozens of local, regional and national AKC-sanctioned shows a year, earning points.
Dogs compete in seven groups—herding, working, sporting, non-sporting, toy, hound and terrier—all of which encompass many breeds.
That’s the first level of competition.
Best of Breed winners then compete against each other for Best of Group. The seven Best of Group winners go on to compete for the coveted Best in Show title.
Best of Opposite Sex is awarded only at the Best of Breed level, and that dog does not advance. For example, if the best Labrador Retriever is a male, the most outstanding Labrador female would win Best of Opposite Sex.
Judges are also free to give Awards of Merit to worthy dogs at the Best of Breed level.
Winner information
Ch K-Run’s Park Me In First (aka “Uno”)
Breed: Beagle, 15 In.
Sex: Dog
AKC: HP 16966001
Date of Birth: May 05, 2005
Breeder: Kathy Weichert & Leah Bertagnolli
Sire: Ch Windkist A Walk In The Park
Dam: Ch Legacy’s Lil Secret At K-Run
Owner: Caroline Dowell & Eddie Dziuk & Jon Woodring & Kathy Weichert
Photos: Breed judging / Group judging Read the rest of this entry »
Just when one is ready to despair there won’t be a submission for Friday Ark this comes in. Photographer Dana Neibert just posted a few images from his latest adventure in Thailand…
Dana Neibert
Dana Neibert
Dana Neibert
A little curiosity goes further: several associations and his and her offerings in elephant polo accessories: puffers, scarfs, T-shirts.
This from Elepolo: Elepolo is the official clothing range for the World Elephant Polo Association, it has been developed and sold in connection with the yearly WEPA tournaments at Tiger Tops in Chitwan, Nepal.
At the heart of Elephant Polo and the Elepolo clothing range lies the love of the elephants to ensure that they are well-looked after and cared for.
5% of the sales of the Elepolo items are donated to the International Trust for Nature and Conservation supporting the protection and coservation of endangered species in Nepal, Thailand and India (itnc.org).
Elepolo through their cooperation with Joules clothing also supports the Esther Benjamin Trust in Nepal, which among other things are working with former prison children, former street children and children rescued from circuses (ebtrust.org.uk).
Pick me ups:
Sugar cane or rice balls packed with vitamins (molasses and rock salt) shall be given to the elephants at the end of the match; and a cold beer, or soft drinks for the drivers, but not vice versa.
Additional links World Elephant Polo Association Elephant Polo Accessories
Holiday shopping. Here come the animal products!
Your dog doesn’t want to just play…he wants to play with you!!
Catch & fetch star
Hover craft dog toy
Seen at Ruff Wear
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