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- Family, Pets Survive South Sacramento House Fire - CBS 13/CW31 Sacramento
- PHOTOS: Pets of the Week - Times Herald-Record
- Top 5 Companies in the Internet Retail Industry With ... - Investors Business Daily
- People with problem pets must make their own peace - Atlanta Journal Constitution
| Family, Pets Survive South Sacramento House Fire - CBS 13/CW31 Sacramento Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:47 AM PDT
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The fire broke out at a home in the 7900 block of Deer Lake Drive near Mack Road west of Highway 99. The fire started in a bedroom and spread from there, according to the Sacramento Fire Department. A woman and another person inside were able to get but had feared their animals had died in the blaze. But when fire fighters searched the home, they found a dog, two puppies and the family cat hiding in the garage. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| PHOTOS: Pets of the Week - Times Herald-Record Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:38 AM PDT The following animals are available for adoption from area nonprofit animal shelters and rescues. Adoption fees are required and vary from shelter to shelter. These organizations rely on donations and adoption fees to continue operating. BG: Humane Society of Blooming Grove CS: Canine Sanctuary GH: Goshen Humane Society Inc. HVS: Hudson Valley SPCA-Orange County MTN: Humane Society of Middletown Inc. NEW: Town of Newburgh Animal Shelter PA: Pets Alive PJ: Humane Society of Port Jervis/Deerpark PK: Pike County Humane Society SA: Town of Saugerties Animal Shelter SUL: Sullivan County SPCA WL: Humane Society of Walden Inc. WV: Warwick Valley Humane Society Inc. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Top 5 Companies in the Internet Retail Industry With ... - Investors Business Daily Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT Top 5 Companies in the Internet Retail Industry With the Highest Return on Equity (PCLN, NFLX, NILE, PETS, NTRI)Apr 20, 2010 (SmarTrend News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the top five companies in the Internet Retail industry as measured by return on equity (ROE). The ROE is a general indication of the company's efficiency; Investors usually look for companies with ROEs that are high and are growing. priceline.com (PCLN) ranks first with an ROE of 48.5%; NetFlix (NFLX) ranks second with an ROE of 42.4%; and Blue Nile (NILE) ranks third with an ROE of 40.9%. PetMed Express (PETS) follows with an ROE of 32.4% and NutriSystem (NTRI) rounds out the top five with an ROE of 23.5%. SmarTrend is bullish on shares of NFLX and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on January 28, 2010 at $62.29. The stock has risen 36.1% since the alert was issued. Write to Chip Brian at cbrian@tradethetrend.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SmarTrend analyzes over 5,000 securities simultaneously throughout the trading day and provides its subscribers with trend change alerts in real time. To get a free trial of our trading calls and maximize your trading results, please visit http://www.TradeTheTrend.com Get exclusive, actionable insight into how the market is expected to trend prior to market open with our free morning newsletter. Sign up at: http://www.TradeTheTrend.com/signup Copyright, Comtex News Network, Inc. 2010 See Also
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| People with problem pets must make their own peace - Atlanta Journal Constitution Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:17 AM PDT Associated Press Writer Angie Best-Boss has tried changing litter boxes, types of litter, brands of litter. But something has gone terribly wrong with Tiger. "I loathe my cat," said the freelance writer in New Palestine, Ind. "Actually, loathe might be too weak of a word. I hate it. The stupid, stupid cat pees. On clothes. Only on clean clothes. And beds. Regardless of what spray I buy, what medicine she takes, she just really, really likes to pee." Dogs chewing through table legs. Cats diving for the family dinner. Biting cockatiels. At a time when many people are scrimping on themselves to indulge their animals, the love is lost for owners of infuriating pets. Still, many can't bring themselves to dump their wayward animals in shelters. Instead, they pay sky-high vet bills for intervention that doesn't work. They endure in-your-face barking rants in the middle of the night or are startled awake by the routine hacking of hairballs. Some wish out loud their pets would just run away. When Cherie Miller's 16-year-old cat, Kitty, goes out, he wants in. When he's in, he wants out. He whines relentlessly and refuses to eat unless a human stirs the kibble around in his self-feeder. The family calls it "whooshing." "When it scratches on the bedroom door at 3:21 a.m. to have its food whooshed, it's enticing to imagine creative ways to ditch this cat. I'm a pet lover, but come on," said Miller, who lives in suburban Atlanta and was inspired to start a blog about pesky pets called pet-peeves.org. So how does a human make peace with a problem pet? Venting helps, said an expert, though the griping may be more emotionally complicated for the humans involved. "We all know couples who look like they like to fight. They let fights happen because, it seems, they're getting something out of it. Some people have that relationship with their pets," said psychologist Stephanie LaFarge, who specializes in the human-animal bond as senior director of counseling services at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "Some people like to think they love their animals so much they're willing to be victimized by them," she said. "It's proof of how much they love that animal and proof of what a good animal person they are and what a good person they are. It's part of their identity." There's no national clearinghouse for where and how people acquire their pets, but about 63 percent of all U.S. households have at least one, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. Ten to 20 percent of cats and dogs come from shelters and rescue organizations, sometimes arriving in well-meaning homes with heavy emotional baggage. Others, like Jellybean, just drop into the lives of their humans and stay a good long while. Jellybean is the nippy childhood bird of Jennifer Guild, who lives in Richmond, Va. The bird materialized one day, and Guild's parents took her in. After she and her siblings moved away, Guild took on Jellybean, despite a bird allergy. "Jellybean has always been pretty mean. When you try to take her out of her cage, she tries to bite you," Guild said. "My husband has always hated her." She tried her local SPCA with no luck, so Jellybean is confined to a back bedroom in virtual exclusion, at maximum volume. "Try sleeping in on a Saturday morning with a bird screeching in the next room," Guild said. About 5 percent of the dogs and cats placed in homes by the ASPCA's adoption center in New York City last year were returned, said its senior vice president, Gail Buchwald. Allergies and housing problems are common reasons, but many people don't relinquish pets out of shame or fear of being judged. "You can never predict an animal's behavior in a home 100 percent," Buchwald said. "To some extent, every adopter is expected to roll with the punches a little bit, to know that animals, like children, come with their personae and sometimes come with the sniffles and sometimes they might develop personality traits that we wouldn't have put on top of our list." Elizabeth Castro, who lives outside Chicago, finds her life with her cat Phil one huge compromise. He regularly urps between her sheets and she tried to foist him off on her in-laws, only to have him returned. "I decided to pretend he was a different cat named Morty, the smarter twin brother who doesn't have a hairball problem," she said. "My 3-year-old daughter wants to play with him so bad, and he just hates her — runs away and hisses." Taking a deep breath is a good place to start when other strategies fail, LaFarge said. "It's very hard, when the animal does something we don't like, to say why is he doing this to me, when in fact that animal may be just being an animal and fulfilling his own needs," she said. Joseph Lilly in Las Vegas knows exactly what LaFarge is talking about. He and his wife have made a mission of taking in rescue dogs considered "unrescuable." They have four, including Bennie the border collie mix. He was found in a street nearly dead after he was hit by a car. "The day of the rescue, he clawed me so badly that I had a scar for a year," Lilly said. "He became violently aggressive in the car. He would let us pet him and then suddenly turn on us. I wanted to throw him off a bridge for nearly a year." Now, through training, reinforcement and discipline, Bennie is "neurotic but a big love bug." "He's still very hyperactive," Lilly said. "I still run him and train him regularly but he's just, well, he's just a border collie." Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. 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