“Program puts pets in good hands while owners are ... - Honolulu Advertiser” plus 3 more |
- Program puts pets in good hands while owners are ... - Honolulu Advertiser
- Protecting pets from suburban predators - Examiner
- Training pets to be service dogs - Examiner
- Brazen coyotes menace Coeur d’Alene pets - The Spokesman-Review
| Program puts pets in good hands while owners are ... - Honolulu Advertiser Posted: 16 May 2010 04:57 AM PDT Since 2003, the Hawaiian Humane Society has offered a foster care program for deployed military personnel called Pets of Patriots. Bianca Trombi, the community outreach coordinator at the Hawaiian Humane Society, has a wide network of more than 180 foster care homes. Although there is no charge to take part in this wonderful program, if the leave is longer than three months, the owner is asked to provide credit card information and approval amount with their veterinarian, just in case of emergency. "Cats are the most fostered-out animal. Seventy-five percent of the foster homes for Pets of Patriots have cats," Trombi says. Schaleena Seeley has been a part of the foster care program for two years and has already taken in as many as 16 pets from military families. Currently, she is caring for two adult cats named Oreo and Elvis, who love to sit on her stomach while she reads. "I really care about animals, and it's unfortunate that service members get deployed and they're forced to get rid of their pets," Seeley says. With foster care, "at least they know their pets are being taken care of while they are serving their country." The Hawaiian Humane Society is looking for more volunteers to help foster military pets. If you can help, please call Trombi at 356-2217. After 20 years with The Advertiser — or 140 in dog years — animal lover Leslie Kawamoto left the newspaper last week to join the administrative offices at The Queen's Medical Center. Her final column will appear next week. Reach Leslie Kawamoto at lkawamoto@honoluluadvertiser.com. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Protecting pets from suburban predators - Examiner Posted: 14 May 2010 02:25 PM PDT If I asked you to name a pet that spends time left outside in a yard, I'm guessing most of you would say "dog." But rabbits are often caged outside in warmer months, and both turtles and koi may grace small backyard ponds. All risk falling prey to various hunters even in fairly urban suburbs. Besides the risk of a human deciding your pet is just what s/he wants, you may ask, what predators do we need to worry about in a metropolitan area? How about the mountain lion the Chicago police shot last year? OK, that's a bit of a fluke, but we find plenty of native predators lurking around the suburbs. In my Warrenville subdivision, I've seen a coyote ambling down the street early one morning, a fox on my lawn one night, and (just this past week) a red-tailed hawk sitting on my deck railing—until it saw me move inside. What a wingspan! Small dogs, rabbits, other small animals can act as lures for coyotes and foxes—even hawks, if your pet is small enough and your yard open enough. Food dishes left outside will draw raccoons and possums—and possums may not be much in the predator category but they're awful nuisances. Raccoons, on the other hand, may look cute and cuddly—but they're fierce enough to rip open a fairly large dog over food, or to protect their kits. Koi ponds and turtle habitats can also lure raccoons … and that most ubiquitous koi poacher, the heron or egret. The most effective protection is your presence—all of these predators fear and avoid humans. But the whole point of putting your dog outside may be so you have some time to do chores without tripping over it every second step. And I doubt many koi pond owners want to camp by their pond day and night. Netting will discourage birds, who can't land and stalk without getting their feet and legs entangled. Berry and vegetable farmers use netting to protect crops—you can use it equally well to preserve your koi. To discourage coons, foxes and coyotes, you'll need much stronger fencing, or even cages, around the prey. For instance, if you are raising rabbits or (if your neighborhood allows) poultry, chicken wire on wood slats may be enough cage to keep them in … but not enough to keep foxes or coyotes out. If you don't want to become overnight deli for the neighborhood and can't afford stronger cages, you'd better bring your animals inside at night, even if only inside a shed or garage. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Training pets to be service dogs - Examiner Posted: 16 May 2010 06:23 AM PDT
After having my pelvis crushed in a car accident in 2003 I had to have several surgeries, including a total hip replacement. I still suffer pain, difficulty getting up as well as poor balance, which causes me to fall often. My solution was to train our Bernese Mountain Dog mix, Ramble to help me. Ramble helps me get up from the floor or from a sitting or lying position, stabilizes me when I walk and lets me lean on him when we have to stand for long periods. He has also been trained to push buttons to open a door, close a door using his paw, turn lights on and off and more. Most people have never even considered it but could your own dog learn to help you?
For more info or to suggest a topic contact: Megan Brooks with K9 Superstarz Dog Training by phone (720) 382-8113, e-mail k9superstarz@yahoo.com or visit us on the web at http://www.k9superstarz.com Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Brazen coyotes menace Coeur d’Alene pets - The Spokesman-Review Posted: 14 May 2010 02:39 PM PDT
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Grizzly hadn't been outside long when Wade Williams heard his 3-year-old dog "screaming and hollering" Tuesday night. The Coeur d'Alene man immediately ran outside and saw his part-Pomeranian, part-Chihuahua just escaping the jaws of a coyote. "There he is, breaking loose from the coyote in the yard," Williams said. "There's blood on the porch and everything." For several weeks, residents of Williams' north Coeur d'Alene neighborhood have been keeping their dogs and cats inside due to regular coyote sightings. One couple said their dog was killed and half-eaten by a coyote outside their mobile home. Another woman said a coyote followed her and her dog on a walk Tuesday night. The neighbors are looking for a public agency willing to address the problem but said they haven't had any luck yet. "The cops already told me I can't shoot 'em," said Williams, who trapped coyotes for cash growing up in West Virginia. "So I'm supposed to leave my dog out and let them eat him?" The state Department of Fish and Game does not have "the expertise nor the funding source to try to deal with them," said Craig Walker, the regional conservation officer. He said the agency has received a lot of calls from concerned neighbors and has issued news releases advising people on how to deal with coyotes. Ultimately, Walker said, it's the landowners' responsibility. However, Walker said he's never dealt with an urban coyote problem in 24 years with the department. He said the agency licenses commercial trappers to handle nuisance animals such as skunks and raccoons. "The landowners are responsible for dealing with it, just like they would be if they had a skunk living under their house," he said. Residents have reported coyote sightings in neighborhoods all around Kootenai County's solid waste transfer station on Ramsey Road. Solid waste director Roger Saterfiel said that when he first received calls from residents about a month ago, he called a trapper licensed by the state to see what it would take to get rid of the coyotes. However, Saterfiel said he has since decided not to pursue it because the coyotes are not on county property. "Once I got the information, I decided it's a no-win situation, so I'm not going to be involved," Saterfiel said, explaining that people also get upset when wild animals are killed by public agencies. "They're not living on my property, they only cross my property. It's hard for me to accept responsibility for them." The Coeur d'Alene Police Department has received enough calls from residents that a crime analyst mapped the coyote sightings. The map shows eight sightings from April 6 to May 11 in the northwest quadrant of the city. Police Sgt. Christie Wood said calls about coyotes are not common. "It isn't something we typically deal with," she said. Licensed trappers Bill Haywood and Scott Dinger said Washington Initiative 713, which placed limits on trapping and selling animals captured in traps, is partly responsible for the overflow of coyotes. The initiative took effect in December 2000. "A lot is directly related to Washington state becoming anti-trapping," Dinger said. "Coyotes can travel 30 miles in a day. Over the past few years, you have the influx from Washington. You have an animal that's usually in the wild and a community growing in size." None of that, however, helps Williams and his neighbors resolve their problem, Williams said. Grizzly usually goes outside by himself, at the end of a long leash tethered to the house, but no longer. "The coyote followed him right up on the porch," Williams said. "He stood right there on the sidewalk and looked at me. He was really aggressive." Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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