Dog News – June 2009
Posted on June 01, 2009 by Nancy Houser
As an avid reader of all news about dogs, our Monthly Dog News comes out on the first of every month. Listed on the Navigator as the Monthly Dog News, it is also listed as a monthly post where you can look at the present month in addition to linking to previous months.
Russian girl discovered ‘behaving like dog’
Russia (The Raw Story): Russian child protection officers have taken into care a five-year-old girl who barks and laps up food like a dog having had more contact with canines than humans, police said on Wednesday.
Bob Hope’s aging widow and her dog
Los Angeles (baltimoresun.com): Dolores Hope, the widow of comedian Bob Hope, is joined by her dog Toro as she celebrates her 100th birthday in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Artist Sculpts Dog From Chewing Gum (And Hair)
Britain (About-Weird News): Most dogs shed on their owners carpet. This little critter is made from the owner (and sculptor’s) own clippings from his head.
Soup Kitchen Opens for Dogs
Berlin (Reuters): A soup kitchen exclusively for dogs has opened its doors in Berlin providing pets of the homeless and unemployed with a free meal, the director of the establishment said on Friday.
City Uses DNA to Fight Dog Poop
Israel (Reuters): An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners.
A Face Lift for a Dog?
Brazil (Seattlepi.com): Go see Edgado Brito, who is advancing the practice of pet plastic surgery in a land with a worldwide reputation for making people beautiful by any means.
Creator of Unique Dog Adoption Program Awarded
Walnut Creek, CA (Dog Channel.com): Dr. Emily Weiss, creator and developer of the ASPCA’s Meet Your Match adoption program, will receive the Tony La Russa Animal Rescue Foundation’s Evie Award at the Stars to the Rescue Gala in Walnut Creek, Calif., on January 5, 2008. The Evie Award, named for the cat who inspired the ARF’s founding, recognizes individuals for their excellence in compassionate care of companion animals.
Little dog lost, then found using unique tactic
Santa Monica Mountains (The Malibu Times): Tony Alti and son Michael had lost their little dog, but then Michael, following the advice of an animal rescue agency, used a unique tactic to find the toy poodle, which survived three days in the mountains.
Elkhart County service dog displays a unique talent
Michigan (WSBT.com): A dog left in a drop box at the Elkhart County Humane Society is making the most of a second chance at life – the ability to sense seizures in other dogs before they happen.
The VGL Dog Genetics Group
Davis CA (Davis Veterinary Gentics Laboratory): “Applying genetics & genomics to understand the fascinating biology of the dog”. The VGL laboratory uses genetics and genomics to investigate three broad areas of dog biology.
Shelter Sterilization Bills Being Considered
(AKC ): AKC’s Government Relations Department would like to provide clarification on shelter sterilization bills currently under consideration in two states.
How to see all kinds of dogs all the time..and FAST!
(News10Now): Now, when you want to see “dogs” on Google images, you can use Cool Iris to see them displayed, gallery style, and simply zoom through them, rather than clicking “next, next, next” to get the full panorama. It’s fun, it’s fast, and it’s informative.
Robot Dogs Evolve Unique Personalities
(AIBITS.com): A Phsyorg story details research at the KAIST Robot Intelligence Lab in which scientists use evolutionary processes to develop unique personalities for simulated robots. Their first robot dog, known as Rity, has 14 chromosomes with a total of 1,746 genes that affect the dog’s personality and interactions with its environment. The evolutionary processes can go through 3,000 generations every 12 hours, narrowing in on a personality which best fits one of two desired behaviors described as either agreeable or antagonistic.
Could Your Dog Be a Blood Donor?
(Bella Online): When a prospective volunteer donor dog and owner go to a donation center or blood drive location for the first time, someone will interview the owner to find out if he or she is seriously willing to comply with the program requirements. Because of the costs involved in the health screening and blood testing, they’re looking for people who are willing to bring their dogs to donate blood on a regularly scheduled basis.
Research: Top Dog: Can a robot ease loneliness as well as a furry friend?
(todaysseniorsnetwork): Saint Louis University geriatricians are researching what helps nursing home residents feel less lonely – a robotic dog or a real pooch.
“Some people believe nursing home residents can get attached to this mechanic animal, and wouldn’t it be wonderful not to have the fuss and muss of a living dog,” says William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatric medicine at Saint Louis University.
Discovery Could Eliminate Harmful Gene Mutation in Dogs
(Forbes.com): A genetic mutation that causes a neurological disorder called sensory ataxic neuropathy (SAN) in Golden Retriever dogs has been identified by Swedish scientists.
Abused dog’s nightmare turns to dream
(the daily.com.au): The tragedy of a sickeningly treated dog that was saved on the Sunshine Coast has turned into a fairytale.
Nellie, a rottweiler or rottweiler cross, was starved, brutalised and sexually abused before being dumped at Woodford in September 2007.’
Pets mourn deceased ‘buddies’
(SouthCoastoday.com): Do animals grieve when their owner or another member of the herd dies? Last fall, when my cat Sugar suddenly disappeared, my other feline, Daisy, shrieked incessantly for days until I discovered the Sugar’s lifeless body hidden under a bush in a remote section of my backyard.
UF makes gene therapy advance in severe genetic disorder
(Science News): A dog born with a deadly disease that prevents the body from using stored sugar has survived 20 months and is still healthy after receiving gene therapy at the University of Florida — putting scientists a step closer to finding a cure for the disorder in children.
Ask a dog for the diagnosis: some people smell like cancer
(examiner.com): There is a medical tool so powerful that it is able to find melanomas before they break through the skin, prostate tumors before they start to grow, and lung cancer that doesn’t appear on any x-ray or lab test. It is a tool so complex that no other medical device can match it, not digital dermatoscopy or biomedical laboratory processes or magnetic resonance imaging machines.
It’s not a new tool; it’s an ancient one. In fact, sixty-five million of us have access to it in our own homes. It’s a dog.
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