“Poll: Money is a huge consideration in pet care - Baxter Bulletin” plus 2 more

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• Poll: Money is a huge consideration in pet care - Baxter Bulletin
• Pet Snake Strangles its Owner to Death - Myfoxla.com
• Ocean City: Reptile Pets Must Be Kept Off Streets - WJZ

Poll: Money is a huge consideration in pet care - Baxter Bulletin Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:32 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. (2 of 3) "My income decides a lot of my expenses," she said. So far, her current year-old cocker mix, Buddy, and her 8-year-old cat, Boo Kitty, have had few health problems. Cornwell would do everything she could, but if a vet told her surgery was her only option and she had to have the money up front, "I would be done. There would be nothing I could do about it." Cornwell does worry, though. So do one in five pet owners who said they fret a lot about being unable to afford seeing a vet. Dog owners are more likely to worry than cat owners, and women and low-income people are among the biggest worriers. "If they start getting into expensive vet bills, there's nothing I can do. I have no options. If you are talking about something like serious cancer, you're putting the animal through a whole lot of stuff that's iffy anyhow and it's not fair to them," she said. About one in four people, or 27 percent, said pet insurance is a good way to save money on vet bills, though that's five times the number who actually carry insurance on their pets. Diego Negrete, 26, of Austin, Texas, has insurance on his 4-year-old fox terrier, Roxy, and his 2-year-old cat, Charley, but he's in the minority. Ninety-five percent of those polled said they didn't have insurance. "It's a nice cushion to have," he said of the policy that covers all yearly shots and checkups for about half what they would normally cost. It also pays for part of the costs of different problems, he said, although he didn't know all the details. But Negrete doesn't fear vet bills. "I'm not worried at all because the insurance would cover part of it and I am financially capable of covering whatever it costs," he said. However, if you are looking upward of $5,000, "something must be seriously wrong," Negrete said. He would have to look at how much the animal would suffer through the problem, and how the recovery could go. And he would want some assurance the pet would have a good life later. Negrete had a 14-year-old dog who'd had a hernia removed twice. When it grew back a third time, "he was old and about done and he was in pain, so we put him down," he said. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Pet Snake Strangles its Owner to Death - Myfoxla.com Posted: 11 Jun 2010 06:00 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. (NewsCore) - A Nebraska man was strangled to death by his own boa constrictor, in what is believed to be the first such killing by a pet snake in the U.S., the Omaha News reported Thursday. Cory Byrne's neck was crushed at his Papillion home as he showed the pet to friends. The nine foot long, 25-pound snake, which was wrapped around his neck and shoulders, suddenly tightened its grip, causing the 34-year-old to collapse. Rescuers arrived to find him with no pulse. He was pronounced dead at hospital. "When they strike, they're just going to coil around real fast," said Nebraska Humane Society's snake expert Sarah Reiderer, according to the Omaha News. "It waits until it can't feel the heart beat anymore and then and that's when it will relax a little bit," Reiderer said. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is campaigning to keep potentially dangerous animals, like boa constrictors, contained to prevent further fatalities. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Ocean City: Reptile Pets Must Be Kept Off Streets - WJZ Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:10 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. E-mail Close Window E-mail This Page The following page was sent to Ocean City: Reptile Pets Must Be Kept Off Streets A copy was sent to your e-mail address Send Another E-mail    Print     Share +  Digg  Facebook Stumble It! del.icio.us  Fark  Twitter    Comments Ocean City: Reptile Pets Must Be Kept Off Streets OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) ― Click to enlarge Close Reptilian pets in Ocean City will have to stay inside after the town council amended local law to keep such creatures off public streets, the beach, Boardwalk, alleys and sidewalks. Ocean City Council members made the change after a councilwoman expressed concern over a man who walks around on the resort town's boardwalk and asks people if they'd like to pet his iguana. The council gave Joseph Short, dubbed "Iguana Man" by council members, a reptile permit in 2007, in accordance with a local law that requires permits for anyone who keeps a reptile as a pet. The new rules also prohibit resort shops from selling frogs or lizards bigger than four inches. Reptiles may be banned in public, but there is an exception for people taking pets to the veterinarian. (© 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.) Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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