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| EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS: Celebrity Pets From Pigs To Pooches With PETA - Radar Online.com Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:09 AM PDT http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid16157557001/bctid617986047001 Puppies, pigs, and bulls oh my!! The celebrities were all a-chatter about their pets on the carpet of PETA's 30th Annual Anniversary Gala and Humanitarian Awards. From cover model pooches to soccer playing bulls, the lives of celebrity pets are filled with love and RadarOnline.com's Jessica Campbell was their to get the scoop. Eli Roth shares, "I have a pet pig named Pennington...they're wonderful pets, very clean and they're very social." Falling on the more traditional side Charlotte Ross has a once-homeless pet who now lives in the Hollywood spotlight. "I have a dog named Taco that I brought back from the streets of Puerto Rico. Taco's been on the cover of like five dog magazines," she tells RadarOnline.com. PHOTO: Nia Long Goes Naked For PETA Jenna Dewan of Step Up fame also has dogs and said, "I'm known to spoil them badly." The saucy legend Charo has a very feisty pet bull named Manolo. She admits,"The bull doesn't know but he likes Spanish bull fighting music." RELATED STORIES: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Deadly toxins put Pinto Lake off limits to people and pets - San Jose Mercury News Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:44 PM PDT A toxic algae bloom in Pinto Lake can be dangerous to people and their pets, county environmental health officials warned Thursday. People should avoid swimming in the lake and keep their pets, particularly dogs, from entering or drinking the water, officials said. The toxin in the blue-green algae has been blamed for respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous disorders in humans as well as stumbling, foaming, tremors, even death, in dogs elsewhere in the country. A recent study by researchers from UC Santa Cruz and the state Department of Fish and Game also linked the toxic microcystin produced by the freshwater algae to the deaths of at least 21 California sea otters. "We wanted to get the word out to people to take care, for people to be cautious," said John Ricker, county water resources division director. Ricker said the toxin doesn't appear to affect fish or birds, but there are a lot of unknowns. The blue-green algae bloom was first officially documented in Pinto Lake in 2005, Ricker said, but there's anecdotal evidence of the slime before then. It typically occurs in August or September, when the weather warms up, and can last into November, when winter storms flush the lake or cold kills off the algae, Ricker said. Pinto Lake, off Green Valley Road, is surrounded by city and county parks. It drains into Corralitos Creek, a tributary of the Pajaro River. The sea otter researchers tracked the toxin down the Pajaro River to within a mile of the Monterey Bay. During this year's rainy season, they also found it in the outflows of the San Lorenzo and Salinas rivers, as well in the water at the Santa Cruz Wharf after the first rain last year.David Koch, Watsonville public works and utilities director, said the water at Pinto Lake will be tested this weekend. He said as the algae sinks, the water gets clearer, but the toxicity can worsen. "It's more dangerous so people shouldn't look at it and think it's OK," Koch said. The researchers suspect local dogs have been poisoned from drinking lake water or licking it from their fur, but they've been unable to do postmortem examinations to confirm the presence of microcystin. Koch said there's been no local reports of dead birds, wild animals or pets attributed to the toxin, but he said that doesn't mean there haven't been any. He said increased awareness could bring evidence to light in the future. "It's possible there have been situations that no one has connected to it," Koch said. "We don't really know if it happens several days later and no one puts two and two together." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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