Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:10 AM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- DogTime Media, the largest vertical media community focused exclusively on pet owners, today announced that its audience has grown to an industry leading 29,475,000 unique visitors a month, as reported by comScore Media Metrix(1).

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ComScore recently establish a "Pets" category within its Community section of web sites to accurately reflect the ranking of online properties in the pet space. DogTime Media has led the category since its inception.

"We're delivering a combination of data-driven audience and performance targeting, content syndication, and uniquely powerful cause-driven social media programs across the largest audience in the pets category," said Simon Tonner, VP Sales and Marketing for DogTime Media. "This combination has delivered outstanding ROI in both reach and engagement for a record number of advertisers this past quarter."

DogTime Media served over 1 billion targeted ad impressions in 2009 and more than 2 million video plays a month. DogTime Media provides a suite of targeting and engagement programs, including contextual, behavioral, demographic, geographic, retargeting, social media and cause related programs that reach and engage an audience of affluent and educated women aged 25-54.

DogTime Media's popular Facebook applications, Save a Dog and Save a Cat, are ranked #1 and #2 cause-based apps for user engagement (DAU/MAU) within the Friends and Family category(2), and are now accessible via the iPad.

The March comScore report also showed DogTime.com, the hub site of DogTime Media, as reaching 423,000 unique visitors per month(1), making it one of the fastest growing pet focused sites in the Pets category.

About DogTime Media:

DogTime Media is the largest vertical media community focused exclusively on pet owners and the 45.4 billion dollar annual pet market. DogTime Media reaches 29.5 million monthly users via its community of 500 leading pet-focused websites, 460 pet bloggers and more than 2,500 rescue groups, anchored by its own DogTime.com, the premier destination for dog owners.

DogTime Media actively supports the efforts of rescue groups and shelters nationwide to significantly reduce the number of homeless and neglected pets in the country by providing authoritative advice to both novice and experienced pet guardians. DogTime Media has donated over $60,000 to pet related caused via it's Save a Dog and Save a Cat Facebook applications, monthly grants and a variety of other programs. Privately held DogTime Media and DogTime.com are based in San Francisco, Calif.

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Pets who are seniors also have A Chance for Bliss - USA Today

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:27 AM PDT

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Everybody picks a puppy or a kitten, well almost everybody.

Bring on the gray muzzles, says this couple. Deanna and David Bartley run A Chance for Bliss, a nonprofit corporation in Penryn, Calif., that is committed to the care of senior and special need pets, especially dogs and equine.

They have 81 animals, all of whom are permanent residents. None is up for adoption. He says he's seen animals come to their sanctuary who have had so many homes, their spirits are broken. No resident comes here by choice.

"We honor their beings," says David."There is nothing sad about this place. Our goal is to revive them spiritually, physically and mentally.''

The most recent newcomer is a 16-year-old pot bellied pig whose owner had to find a home for him because he couldn't care for him anymore.

From 2000-2005, the sanctuary was just for small dogs. Now all 20 dogs live in the house with them. All are small. One pup is 20 years old.

They have 23 horses. The oldest is 35. They have 10 horses that are 30-plus years.

Also in the sanctuary: 7 pot bellied pigs, 6 goats, 5 sheep, 5 geese, 2 steers, 4 chickens, 4 rabbits, 3 cats, and 1 duck.

In 10 years, 65 pets have died at A Chance for Bliss. Eighteen to 20 months is the average length of life here, Bartley says.

When I asked him how they go through the pain of losing animals, he said, "We can handle it. My wife says if the animals can die here in peace, then we can accept a little heart ache."

Expense is the more troublesome issue. It takes $4,000 a month just to feed everyone. The Bartleys, like many across the country, were hit hard by the economy the past couple years. The value of their house has plummeted -- they're under water -- and his job as a mortgage broker has suffered. His salary has all but disappeared, he says. They've declared bankruptcy and are appealing a foreclosure.

"I try not to worry about it too much, chosing instead to work on fund raising,'' he said.

They have a sponsorship program (prices range from $25 to $125 per month) on the website where you can help out the animals. For more details, click here.

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Families advised not to keep turtles as pets - Knoxville News Sentinel

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:30 AM PDT

Louise Conrad

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While vacationing at the beach, a family stops by a gift shop and buys a baby turtle. It's a red-eared slider, the most common type of water turtle kept as a pet. No bigger than a 50-cent piece, the turtle is taken home to Tennessee.

Fast-forward a few weeks: By now the turtle is getting bigger, and no one wants to clean its tank. What's more, the family has learned that with proper care, red-eared sliders can live 70 years.

So they call Ijams Nature Center, or perhaps the Knoxville Zoo, where they learn that it's actually illegal to keep any species of turtle as a pet in Tennessee.

Both facilities say they don't need more turtles and that releasing the family pet in the wild is not an option because the turtle could spread parasites and disease and probably wouldn't survive very long anyway.

"We get a ton of calls about this," said Louise Conrad, the veterinarian in charge of animal care at Ijams Nature Center. "People buy these baby red-eared sliders in a tank with a plastic palm tree without realizing it's going to grow to have a 10-inch shell and that it's illegal to even possess them in Tennessee."

Ijams has two adult red-eared sliders. The exhibit also includes a large snapping turtle, soft-shelled turtle, painted turtles, map turtles and box turtles. Conrad said the red-eared sliders excrete more than any of them and require additional filters and a larger pump to keep their tank clean.

"They are by far the messiest," she said. "My nickname for our two red-eared sliders is 'piggies.' They are probably the least personable turtles I work with."

Conrad said most of the people with unwanted turtles contact Ijams after purchasing their red-eared sliders at vacation spots in South Carolina and Florida.

Tennessee has some of the most conservative regulations in the U.S. when it comes to wildlife possession. While some species - even dangerous ones like large carnivores and poisonous snakes - can be kept with the proper permits, it is illegal to keep any turtle as a pet.

The law harks back to the mid-1970s, when the federal Food and Drug Administration banned the sale and distribution of turtles with shells of less than 4 inches because of reptile-associated salmonella, which causes diarrhea, bloody stools, vomiting and fever.

About a decade ago, Tennessee began purging turtles, typically red-eared sliders, from school classrooms after a salmonella incident in Anderson County.

Pete Wyatt, nongame and endangered species biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, said a similar statewide ban on keeping skunks as pets was enacted in 1974 after a child in Knox County contracted rabies and died from a skunk bite.

Red-eared sliders are popular in China, where they were introduced as pets. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the turtles rank among the world's 100 worst invasive alien species.

Wyatt said even people who have owned red-eared sliders for years resort to calling TWRA after realizing their pet is likely to outlive family members.

His advice?

"I suggest they humanely euthanize it or ship it back to South Carolina, but definitely don't turn it loose," Wyatt said.

The Knoxville Zoo gets plenty of calls, too, especially this time of the year. Phil Colclough, the zoo's curator of herpetology, said the inquiries come every week and are becoming more frequent.

"Of course, we say no," Colclough said. "Every waterway in the U.S. is covered with red-eared sliders. They span the globe. They're kinda the kudzu of turtles."

Morgan Simmons may be reached at 865-342-6321.

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News of Record: Police Log, Pets - Bend Bulletin

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:54 AM PDT

Published: April 27. 2010 4:00AM PST

Police Log

The Bulletin will update items in the Police Log when such a request is received. Any new information, such as the dismissal of charges or acquittal, must be verifiable. For more information, call 541-383-0358.

Redmond Police Department

Theft — A theft was reported at 6:25 p.m. April 23, in the 300 block of Northwest Oak Tree Lane.

Vehicle crash — An accident was reported at 1:16 p.m. April 23, in the area of Southwest Canal Boulevard and Southwest Pumice Avenue.

Vehicle crash — An accident was reported at 12:02 p.m. April 23, in the 2000 block of South U.S. Highway 97.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief was reported at 11:57 a.m. April 23, in the 900 block of Northwest 19th Place.

Theft — A theft was reported at 9:10 p.m. April 24, in the 1700 block of Northeast Eighth Street.

Burglary — A burglary was reported at 10:28 a.m. April 24, in the 3100 block of Southwest Quartz Avenue.

Theft — A theft was reported at 11:47 p.m. April 25, in the 800 block of Northeast Nickernut Avenue.

Vehicle crash — An accident was reported at 9:23 p.m. April 25, in the 1700 block of Southwest Odem Medo Road.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief was reported at 9:04 p.m. April 25, in the 3200 block of Southwest Juniper Avenue.

Theft — A theft was reported at 8:57 p.m. April 25, in the 400 block of Southeast Jackson Avenue.

Theft — Cash was reported stolen at 1:38 a.m. April 25, in the 600 block of Southwest Sixth Street.

Prineville Police Department

Vehicle crash — An accident was reported at 3:49 p.m. April 23, in the area of Northeast Third Street.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief was reported at 4:35 p.m. April 23, in the area of Northeast Blackbear Street.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief was reported at 5:33 p.m. April 23, in the area of Northeast Sugarpine Road.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief with a loss of $1,200 was reported at 2:22 p.m. April 24, in the area of Northeast Fourth Street.

Theft — A theft was reported at 10:37 p.m. April 25, in the area of Northwest Mallard Way.

Deschutes County Sheriff's Office

Theft — A theft was reported and an arrest made at 12:46 p.m. April 23, in the 15200 block of state Highway 242 in Sisters.

Burglary — A burglary was reported at 9:13 a.m. April 23, in the 51200 block of Riverland Avenue in La Pine.

DUII — Korin Elizabeth Covey, 21, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants at 2:05 a.m. April 23, in the 2500 block of Northwest Regency Street in Bend.

DUII — James Barclay Cole, 67, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants at 10:04 p.m. April 24, in the area of U.S. Highway 97 and Northwest Colorado Avenue in Bend.

DUII — James Mareau Tinker, 61, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants at 8:15 p.m. April 24, in the area of state Highway 31 and U.S. Highway 97 in La Pine.

Vehicle crash — An accident was reported at 3:24 p.m. April 24, in the area of U.S. Highway 20 West near milepost four in Cloverdale.

Theft — A theft was reported at 8:26 a.m. April 24, in the 17000 block of Burgess Road in La Pine.

Vehicle crash — An accident was reported at 3:07 a.m. April 24, in the area of Northwest 19th Street and Northwest Lower Bridge Way in Terrebonne.

Burglary — A burglary was reported and arrests made at 6:35 p.m. April 25, in the 19200 block of Shoshone Road in Bend.

Criminal mischief — Slashed tires were reported at 3:54 p.m. April 25, in the 53000 block of Holiday Drive in La Pine.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief was reported at 1:44 p.m. April 25, in the 1800 block of Northeast Maple Avenue in Redmond.

DUII — Chase William Aldridge, 18, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants at 2:55 a.m. April 25, in the area of U.S. Highway 97 near milepost 146 in Bend.

Jefferson County Sheriff's Office

Theft — A theft was reported at 5:46 a.m. April 19, in the 1100 block of Southwest Belmont Lane in Madras.

Theft — An iPod was reported stolen April 14, in the 700 block of Fifth Street in Culver.

Theft — Prescription eyeglasses were reported stolen April 14, in the 700 block of Fifth Street in Culver.

Criminal mischief — An act of criminal mischief was reported April 21, in the 500 block of Third Avenue in Culver.

Theft — Stereo speakers were reported stolen from a vehicle April 21, in the 8200 block of Southwest Crater Loop Road in Crooked River Ranch.

Oregon State Police

DUII — Reyes Nava Morales, 36, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants at 3:13 a.m. April 25, in the area of U.S. Highway 20 and Northeast 15th Street in Bend.

Pets

The following animals have been turned in to the Humane Society of the Ochocos in Prineville or the Humane Society of Redmond animal shelters.

You may call the Humane Society of the Ochocos — 541-447-7178 — or check the Web site at www.humanesocietyochocos.com for pets being held at the shelter and presumed lost. The Redmond shelter's telephone number is 541-923-0882 — or refer to the Web site at www.redmondhumane.org. The Bend shelter's Web site is www.hsco.org.

Redmond

Labrador Retriever — Young female, black; found near Southwest Yew Avenue.

Prineville

Australian Cattle Dog mix — Adult female, black, brown and white; found near McKay Road.

German Shepherd mix — Adult female, beige and black; found near Northwest Madras Highway.

Australian Cattle Dog — Adult male, tri-color; found near Crestview Drive.

Domestic short-haired cat — Adult male, yellow tabby; found near Barnes Road.

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