Pet Care Professional Convicted of Animal Cruelty
Today is a sad day in the pet care world – this week Abe Taylor, the former owner of Unleashed SF Doggy Daycare of San Francisco, was found guilty of animal cruelty and sentenced to 60 days in jail, 3 years probation and fined $880. At Pet Camp we can’t even begin to get our heads around…
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Support Pets Unlimited and Paws
Event Date: October 18, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO, CA – This fall Pets Unlimited will celebrate its 65th anniversary and PAWS will celebrate its 25th! Come celebrate the human-animal bond! Bring your pup to an anniversary party for PAWS and the shelter animals of Pets Unlimited at a joint fundraiser on Thursday, October 18 at El Rio from 5-9PM – your $10 admission…
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Why pets end up in shelters?
I was reading Tuft’s University “Your Dog” newsletter and was intrigued by a short article with the same title as this blog. For years I have repeated the standard mantra that poor behavior resulted in dogs being abandoned. Well it turns out that this “fact” was based on research performed by the National Council on…
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CPR Classes for Dog and Cats – Are They Worth It?
There are a plethora of classes being offered to teach pet care professionals (non-veterinarians) CPR and almost an equal number of pet care professionals tout themselves as being CPR certified. That’s great – more education is always better than less. But is CPR where pet professionals should be spending their finite time and training resources?…
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World Rabies Day – September 28
At Pet Camp, we are extremely concerned with pets’ health & safety issues, while in the United States we almost never hear of a person dying from rabies every year some 55,000 people die from the rabies virus. In Europe and the Americas the rare rabies deaths we do see are almost always caused by bat bites. In…
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Dogs and Politics Day – September 23rd
Yes, it’s true there is a Dog in Politics Day. Now many think this simply confirms that most politicians are dogs – but we know that you can’t go around insulting dogs that way! Turns out that this holiday stems from the famous 1952 “Checkers” speech when then candidate for Vice President Richard Nixon introduced…
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