Pet Show podcast – “Mission: Orange”
Listen to the Pet Show podcast! Our guest was Catherine English, superintendent of the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare Division. She spoke with us about Mission Orange. We also had a special guest host: Jeanne Neugebauer, the training coordinator for The Oklahoman. Our regular co-host, Dawn Marks, is on vacation in Hawaii. So the rest of us hate her.
Here are links to our news stories:
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A husky finds her way home through a desert and over two mountain ranges in Nevada.
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A cop saves a woman who was bitten by her own python in Oregon.
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The cat show is coming to Oklahoma City.
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The bear in the movie “Semi-Pro” killed his trainer. Here’s a photo of the bear, Rocky:
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
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What the heck is a Patagonia Cavy?
Well, it’s a sort of an antelope-deer-rabbitt-guinea pig looking thing from South America, and it so happens that some teens from Milwuakie happened to find one wandering the street near their home recently. Needless to say, it didn’t walk that far north. Turns out it was a pet, and the owner was reunited with his cavy, named Spock, after seeing news reports about it. I would love to have one of these as a companion for my dog, but I have yet to see one in a pet store.
Here is a picture of the cavy in question
Bear hug … from a lion
A friend of mine sent me this incredible YouTube video.
The woman shown here rescued this lion, which was found abandoned and malnourished. She helped nurse him back to health and then turned him over to an animal sanctuary. This video shows the first time the lion has seen her since he was a cub.
Who says animals don’t have feelings?
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
The gift of life
I had no clue dogs could donate blood. I imagine my dogs trying to do that. I’m sure those sweethearts would be willing to help out – if the vet techs could finish the whole procedure in less than 4 seconds.
Apparently this kind of donation is not only possible, it’s common for some owners. Check out this story about animal blood banks. Interesting.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Animal testing comes to the front
This week is World Week for Animals in Laboratories, an awareness campaign sponsored by In Defense of Animals. IDA gives some pretty startling statistics about animal testing. The most surprising: more than 20 million animals are used for testing each year.
And we’re not just talking about white mice.
All kinds of animals are used for testing, including primates. Three colleges – New York Medical College, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and the Medical College of Wisconsin – use dogs. The good news is that only 12 medical schools still use animals at all.
Plenty of companies use animal testing to create their products, including plenty of personal health care products. To poke around and learn more, check out the PETA-sponsored site StopAnimalTests.com.
Events are scheduled throughout the country for World Week for Animals in Laboratories, but nothing’s happening in Oklahoma. Do you know of any? Let us know! Leave a comment below.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Leapin’ Lizards
A friend of mine forwarded this YouTube video of a newscast in Texas.
I don’t own any reptiles, and I think that might be best for me. I’d lose it just like this guy did.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Happy Friday!
Every Friday I share my favorite LOLCATS with my friends. For those of you who aren’t familiar, LOLCATS are the product of icanhascheezburger.com, the best waste of time ever invented. This is my favorite one from this week:
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Gator madness
It seems like lately there’s been a bizarre wave of gator hijinks. First, police pulled over a Texas man with a 6-foot alligator in his back seat. Imagine driving down the highway and noticing this:
Then, five kids were arrested for trying to steal a gator. I’m not a reptile owner, but I’m guessing that taking an alligator anywhere it doesn’t want to go is a bad idea. Everyone’s mad – the police and the reptile.
Long story short, let sleeping gators lie.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
