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D.I.Y. Craft: Make Your Dog a Scarf!Category: Dog Life
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Visit your local yarn store and find a bulky weight (weight category 5) yarn that catches your eye. For a warmer cowl, choose a yarn with a high wool content. Also have in mind how long you’d like your cowl to be and how many times you’ll want to wrap it around yours or your dog’s neck.
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Want To Teach Your Dog To Talk? Speech-language Pathologist Christina Hunger Shows You HowCategory: Inspire
Imagine being able to talk with your dogs. What a game-changer it would be for them to be able to give voice to requests and feelings. Well, we’re here to tell you it’s possible. Speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger taught her dog Stella to “talk” using a system she developed employing pre-recorded buttons that can be pushed to say words. Stella now knows over 45 words and can create phrases up to five words long. Variations on “outside” are by far her favourite, surprising exactly zero dog people. more |
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Nuts for PeanutsCategory: NewsBite
Charles Schulz, creator of the beloved Peanuts strip, had his first drawing published at just 13. It was of Spike, his childhood dog that would come to serve as his inspiration for Snoopy. Schulz self-submitted the drawing of his hound/pointer cross to Ripley’s Believe it or Not, who published the image in February of 1937. The public’s love for Snoopy endures—Twentieth Century Fox's all new The Peanuts Movie will be in theaters November 6th.
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A Bond Like No OtherCategory: Inspire
It is 3 a.m. Deborah Groenheyde sleeps fitfully, missing her dogs, Moka and Java. She and her husband adopted the adorable mutts, both tan-coloured with a splash of white, when they were just seven-and-a-half weeks old. A lovable brother and sister pair, Deborah is temporarily separated from them, and their absence weighs heavily upon her heart. more |
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What To Do If Your Dog is Bitten by a SnakeCategory: Health
According to the ASPCA, there may be more than 100,000 venomous snakebites that occur in dogs and cats every year. more |