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05/17/2008

Picking the kit that fits
It happens to all of us. You fall in love with someone’s looks ... but then he’s not quite what you expected. Even, sometimes, if he’s a cat.

05/18/2008

A dog’s best friend
Steve McGarva went to the beach to kite surf, not to crusade.

Photographer documents plight
Photographer documents plight

05/16/2008

As the months pass by, Snaggle pines for new place to call home
My name is Snaggle. Go ahead, take a wild guess as to how I got that name.

05/11/2008

Canine calisthenics
It’s not easy doing a standing-up rowing maneuver with a stretchy band while holding on to two leashed dogs, each doing its seeming best to yank your arms from their sockets. But this is what you get on a Bow Wow Workout — and no one in our group seems to be complaining.

05/09/2008

Pet of the Week
Once upon a time there was a great big old dog who needed a home. Now I know you folks reading this are asking yourselves, “What’s new about that?”

05/06/2008

Animal shelter advocates gear up for fundraising classic-car show
WARWICK — A nonprofit group that supports the city’s animal shelter is expanding its fundraising repertoire with a classic-car show next month.

05/04/2008

Cry ‘wolf,’ but this breed is all dog
A new breed of dog, the Tamaskan, offers the ultimate homage to the dog’s wild ancestor: It aims to look like a wolf, without benefit of even a drop of wild blood.

05/01/2008

Gentle giants in town
WARWICK — Long before Peter Pan swooped through their nursery window, the Darling children had a faithful friend in Nana, the patient and protective Newfoundland dog cast as a nursemaid in M.M. Barrie’s classic tale.

Fashionable dogs on parade
The dog day of spring has come. The third annual Tea and “Ulti-mutt” Dog Fashion Show, a benefit hosted by the Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode Island, is Saturday in the Kingston Congregational Church, 2610 Kingstown Rd., Kingston. Among the participating celebrity models is Rufus, a six-year-old colored bull terrier who in 2006 won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club competition.

04/20/2008

Find a way for dogs and plants to coexist
Those who love both their dogs and their gardens often seek ways to protect their plants from the stress of daily dog traffic.

04/17/2008

Painting has gone to the dogs
This weekend at an exhibit opening not only can you meet the featured artist, but pat him: Marvin, a black Labrador retriever. He’ll be at Sunday’s reception for the “Paw” Traits exhibit at the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Animals in East Providence.

04/06/2008

Toys that teach; Cowesett coupons; Daffodil Days in Wickford
A new educational toy store has opened in Warwick called Learn All About It. The Cowesett Corners store offers educational toys, games, puzzles, arts and crafts, and creative play items such as dress-up clothes (for that child who wants to look like, say, a chef).

Pet acupuncture does have its points
When my dog Otto was a puppy he behaved like an idiot, even for a Labrador retriever.

Trust funds can make sure pets are cared for after you’re gone
NEW YORK — When Marian Hailey-Moss was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer, the first thing she did was set a date for her mastectomy. Then she called a lawyer to create a trust fund for her 14-year-old dog and her three birds.

04/02/2008

Animal Magnetism at its Finest
SOUTH KINGSTOWN Francis Pitcher, who will be 92 in November, liked the hermit crabs best. They had beady eyes at the end of antennae and live in shells painted to look like baseballs.

04/01/2008

Pet of the Week
I looked in the mirror again this morning and there I was, still a pit-bull puppy.

03/28/2008

Helping Fido go grrrrreen
You reduce. You recycle. You reuse. Shouldn’t Fido and Felix do the same? With a burgeoning pet product industry, here are ways your pets can go green, too.

03/27/2008

Our English bull terrier is really a pussycat
“Is it a pit bull?”

03/16/2008

Two tests track what’s in your mutt
The doggie euphemism “All-American” was coined as a polite way to say “mutt.”

03/11/2008

Pet of the Week

03/09/2008

Under One Woof
They didn’t realize how bad things were until Christi McDowell found herself in the emergency room with a bloody hand.

03/06/2008

Pet of the Week
I love my name: Sweet Cheeks. I sound like a special dessert, a mountain of cream puffs or a six-layer chocolate extravaganza of sugar. Or perhaps I have the name of an exotic dancer or, if your tastes are more refined, a Shirley Temple movie.

Puttin’ on the dog
Sassy and Bentley are two and three years old, respectively.

03/02/2008

Employers offer to insure pets
At a time when employers are scaling back on costly health benefits, pet insurance is gaining popularity as an employee benefit.

02/28/2008

Pet of the Week
Every morning I look in the mirror and realize how handsome I am. Then my brother reminds me that we don’t have a mirror in our cage, and I am actually looking at him.