Hey We Have An Alabama Hometown Dog Hero

Cheryl Bauman :Photo by lollieentertainment


Melissa Utech of Scottsboro, Alabama has been chosen by Cheryl Bauman who is the host of Biking and Barking: Girls Just Want To Have Fun With Their Dogs for her work on helping to find homes for abandoned pets.

What an honor that is and it just shows you that the love and caring of just one person has the power to touch so many.

Melissa Utech started the Safe Haven Animal Shelter back in 2006.

Read the article by David Brewer here.

Ban The Selling Of Dogs In Pet Shops

Over in Australia they are trying to get a bill passed that will make it illegal to sell pets from a pet shop.
The bill will help to stop the puppy mills from mass-producing these dogs and make it where you have to by your pet though a breeder.
Australia kills around sixty thousand dogs a year, that is a lot of poor pets that don’t have a say for their own life.
When you buy your dog though a breeder you know that you are getting a well taken care of dog. These shops don’t take care of these puppies; they just sit in these little cages like a prisoner.

Read the article by Danny Rose here.

Dog Saves Women’s Life

When you say go fetch to a dog they usually fetch a toy or stick, but this dog fetched a women that was unconscious in a river.
Wow now that’s one proud owner and dog that helped save this women’s life.

Read the article here.

Yes Dogs Bite

They say that there are about some fifty to sixty million dogs here in America, now if you add up the worldwide I couldn’t even imagine how many are out there.
I wonder how many are homeless or stuff in some animal shelter.

So just alone in the USA there is around eight hundred thousand people that get bit by a dog and most of them are little kids.

Some of the reasons are because a little child will wander in a neighbors yard seeing a dog that looks pretty in a child’s eye.
Did you ever try and pet a dog in a car? A I know most of the time the dog will try and take your arm off.

Another good approach is to put your hand out and let him smell the top of your hand first, but always remember not to look straight into his eyes. If he is waving his tail that is a good sign that he is friendly.
And don’t wave your arms and attempt to grab a dog and even if he looks a little mean just walk away. Remember we only get one set of hands and a bite made on the face will be with you a long time.

I personally watch out for these type dogs that can be very vicious:

Pit Bull

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Doberman Pinchers

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Rottweiler

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German Shepherd

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Husky

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Chow Chow

So be careful and remember that there are a lot of dogs that are trained to protect their master.

Sorry I Just Graduated / I Don’t Need My Dog No More

Photo by Bob & Cheri's


It seems like when kids graduated from collage or the semester is over they just abandon their pets an go home.
I didn’t know that they teach you that animals are disposable items. Can you imagine 600 animals just in May being picked up by one animal shelter?

Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll said: Amongst the debris, they leave their animals. It's a shame. Ray Carroll also has written to the UA about the issue but said he has gotten no response. You don't have to be a dog lover to have some compassion for these little things that are left to fend for themselves.

A spokeswoman for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona named Jenny Rose said: the shelter takes more animals in during the summer, but it's impossible to say how many of the pets come from students. It's really hard to track.

If this is happening in Arizona I wonder how bad it really is if you add all the colleges together. It just shows you what they are teaching in colleges these days.

Read the article by Josh Brodesky here.

Trio Try And Get Owners Dog To Memorial Service Get Arrested

Just picture this:
You hear about a man who is dying in the hospital and his poor dog is being locked up in the dog pound waiting to be put a sleep.

Well these three kids tried to break the dog out of the pound to be with his owner, but they got caught. The story said that the man had died the next day.

This story is what the real America is all about, the love of one to another even if we don’t know the other person. And just think about the poor dog that was only lost walking around because his owner lay dying in the hospital.
So two of the kids have been charged and sit in the county jail.

Here is the question:

If you were the Judge would you charge these kids or would you tell them that it was wrong to break in , but what they were attempting to do was an Honor and a great privilege to know three kids that would risk their own butt for someone else.

Read the article here.

For The Love Of A Dog- What A Day

I came home today after being away for a few days and I read about a man who dropped two dogs over a fence at an animal shelter in Alabama.

See the video here
: Warning: Some images may be disturbing

So this guy who dropped the two dogs off, killed one of them. After seeing himself on the news that made him turn himself in.

Read the article here.

So just when you think the day is shot with all the bad news you come across an article about a little boy who’s dog need to have an operation but his family is unable to afford to pay for it.

Little Clint Bingham was not going to give up and wanted to save his dog named Rex who is a Golden Retriever with the help from his friends.

Read the story by Steve Koecher here.

Now after reading a story like that it just gives you hope and allows you to appreciate your pet animal even more.
As they say : A dog is a man’s best friend

Got to go and play with my dogs….