Sunday, May 9, 2010

“Dorm gives pets space at Stephens - Columbia Daily Tribune” plus 3 more

“Dorm gives pets space at Stephens - Columbia Daily Tribune” plus 3 more

Dorm gives pets space at Stephens - Columbia Daily Tribune

Posted: 08 May 2010 07:11 PM PDT

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Stephens College students who arrive on campus with their dogs, cats or other creatures this fall will have a pet-friendly facility to call home.

Searcy Hall, which has been closed since last summer, is reopening in August as the college's only pet residential hall. Although Stephens has allowed pets for years, having the program under one roof next year will allow for new opportunities.

"We're establishing 'Pet Central' on campus because it allows us to create an all-new living and learning environment for our students who love animals," President Dianne Lynch said in an e-mail. "We're expanding a long-standing policy on campus into an active, energetic and innovative program."

Among the new initiatives is a "doggie day care," where resident dogs will have set times to play in Searcy's fenced-in yard. Lynch said she's already hearing from community members who want to participate in doggie day care, but she said she'll have to make sure students' needs are met first.

The campus also is forming a pet committee that will review and recommend policies for pet owners and develop new programs.

"I expect that we'll have all kinds of new initiatives, which will make Stephens an even better college choice for students interested in careers in veterinary science and other animal-centered professions," Lynch said.

Although certain breeds are still prohibited, gone next year is a long-standing requirement that dogs weigh less than 40 pounds.

Cats and dogs are the most popular pets on campus, but students also have had birds, rabbits and rodents in their rooms over the years, college spokeswoman Sara Fernández Cendón said.

Searcy Hall, located off Windsor Street between College Avenue and Melbourne Street, has been closed since summer 2009, when administrators also closed Prunty Hall. Until then, they had been the only two pet dorms on campus. This school year, students with pets were housed in a wing of Hillcrest Hall.

Administrators decided this week to reopen Searcy because of an increase in the number of students interested in bringing pets next year, Cendón said.

She estimated about 40 students with pets now housed in Hillcrest are coming back next year, and some 20 incoming freshmen have expressed a desire to bring their animals.

"Space-wise, it makes sense," she said. "We were getting to a point where we were running out of pet-friendly rooms at Hillcrest."

Reach Janese Heavin at 573-815-1705 or e-mail jheavin@columbiatribune.com.

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Vail Valley: Pets at all hours - Vail Daily News

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:19 AM PDT

There are plenty of quiet nights, to be sure, but there are also nights when the hospital is as busy as it is during business hours.

Lots of the patients coming in are dogs that have been hit by vehicles. Other common cases are pets that have eaten something they shouldn't.

"We've had a lot of marijuana toxicity lately," Meynier said.

And business has been picking up as spring has settled in. Meynier said there's been at least one animal in surgery every weekend for the last six weeks or so.

Besides house pets, people bring in wildlife, too. The clinic has patched up a great horned owl and a pregnant porcupine, then released them back into the wild.

People bring in exotic pets, too, including sugar gliders, a sort of flying squirrel native to Australia and other Pacific islands.

"It's fun to see those animals along with the others," Meynier said.

Char Quinn of the Eagle Valley Humane Society said Meynier's clinic is the only one in the Vail Valley that provides all-hours emergency service.

"We've taken Humane Society animals there," Quin said. "It's nice there's a place to go that you know somebody's going to be there."

And, Meynier said, the charge for an after-hours visit is the same as it is for a trip to the clinic during office hours — between $95 and $100.

And, if an animal comes in that's another vet's patient, Meynier's clinic will notify that vet, and get the animal to its home clinic as soon as it's stable.

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does wellbutrin cause the sad-intrusive thoughts-like ... - HealthCentral.com

Posted: 08 May 2010 03:08 PM PDT

Sandy, as a person who has taken Wellbutrin for many, many years, and from what I've read about it, I doubt that it would cause intrusive thoughts.  The fact that they are about the loss of your mother and pets makes me wonder if you perhaps weren't able to grieve completely at the time they died.  Or maybe some grief from something else is bringing it up.  Do you have a therapist?  It might be something to bring up there.

 

I hope you'll soon be feeling better - it might help, actually, to just let the grief process unfold.

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Kerry Katona shows off her flash new pad and her new ... - News of World

Posted: 08 May 2010 05:17 PM PDT

KERRY Katona shows off her swish new pad and trim figure after ducking out of her low-life world of drugs.

She has moved in to a luxury seven-bedroom barn conversion with her four kids.

As ducks swim by on the lake next door the idyllic scene in Surrey could hardly be more different from the Cheshire home she used to share with estranged husband Mark Croft.

A source said: "Her life was dominated by snorting cocaine but that's in the past. Kerry's transformed herself back to the beauty the public fell in love with."

Kerry, 29, and children, Molly, eight, Lilly-Sue, seven, Heidi, three, and Maxwell, two, are on the up after Croft helped blow her estimated £6.8 million fortune on luxury cars, holidays and a £300-a-week cocaine habit.

The spree made Kerry bankrupt - but she somehow still finds the cash to rent her new home for £3,500 a month.

Kerry says she only lacks one thing. "I'm going to start looking for love again - but I need to get divorced first."

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