"Hawg-Dawg" rodeos are held every weekend throughout Texas where dogs are trained to hold hogs down with bites that draw blood while the "cowboy" grabs the hog by its hind leg, flips it on its side and stabs it behind the front quarter with an 8-inch-long double-edged blade. "A knife to the heart is quicker than a gunshot to the head"
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
'Wag the Dog': MPAA Embarassment Over Pirated DVD Sniffing Labradors
The Motion Picture Association of America will stop at nothing to prevent the international trafficking of pirated movies. The film industry lobby is enlisting the help of two Labradors, Lucky and Flo, that have been trained to smell chemicals found in DVDs. The problem: Pirated DVDs smell just like regular ones!
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N2O Odor Eliminator Helps You Say No 2 Pet Odors
Anyone who has taken on the challenge of house training a new dog, or who has had a cat with litter box “issues” understands the difficulties associated with dealing with pet odors. It is only natural that urine odors are hard to get rid of. After all, animals use urine as a scent-marking tool because of its ability to survive sun, wind, rain, MORE
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Doggy Da Vincis
A funny post on The Point talking about what is art. A women in Maryland came up with the idea of training her dogs to pick up a paint brush with their teeth and and slap paint on canvas. She sold one of her paintings for $350. It begs the question of what is art. Should there be some objective standards?
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I Have A Big Problem With Pit Bulls: Including Yours
Pitbulls aren't necessarily the problem since a good owner with time, patience, and willingness to train can raise a good dog. But on the whole, pitbulls are hard to raise and much of the time will end up chained to a tree in the backyard most of their lives or will learn that their aggressive behavior is OK.
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Win a Trip to the Great American Beer Festival
Win a VIP trip for two to Denver (airfare and hotel included), 2 three-day passes to the Great American Beer Festival on October 11-13th and a weekend of debauchery with the Flying Dog Brewery crew. So start training your liver now and enter today...
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Britney Spears likes to clean dog poo with $1,000 Chanel dresses
Even though I haven't busted one off to the "Oops" video in over five years now, I'm still just as fascinated with her. Like, in a laboratory science experiment sort of way. Britney's latest stop in her "I'm Fat and My Life is a Train Wreck Tour 2007" was at the offices of OK! Magazine for an exclusive interview and photo shoot.
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A Fundamental Dog Training Concept You Must Understand
I moved into a new house about 14 days ago. The funny thing about this house is that--when you walk into the master bathroom, the light switch is on the left side, opposite of where the sink is. Well, practically every other house I''ve ever lived in has always had the light switch on the right side--or at least on the same side as the sink.
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The Sims 2: Pets
For the first time ever, players can create pets for their Sims to love, train, play with and take to the park. Create-a-Pet allows players to mix, match and create the perfect dog or cat for their Sim. Labradoodle? Shnoodle? Puggle? Choose breeds and customize your pets. Put your pets to work in a variety of different careers including Show Busine
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It's McCain by a head | Salon News
Unlike horses and dogs, presidential candidates offer no easy way for the betting man to turn a buck. It's not that one can't find a bookie to take the wager -- the Internet long ago solved that problem. It's just that candidates are, as a group, more poorly trained, more easily spooked and more pro
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Don L. Price goes one-on-one with Bull Dog
Rude Awakening (Friday, January 26th): From “Lincoln Heights” on ABC Family: Nicki Micheaux, plus: using computer forensics to bust Cyber Liars, Florida Spring Training: Your Guide to Touring the Grapefruit League, Turning the Tables on Email Scammers, hypnotist Don Price, and NFL analyst Sammy Lubeck will talk Super Bowl!
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North Koreans assault Finnish customs agent then watch cabaret show on boat
Weird story out of Finland. Some North Koreans wouldn't show their train tickets and then proceed to assault Finnish customs agent. Then they claim diplomatic immunity without valid diplomat ID. North Korea files official complain saying the diplomats were assaulted, tear gassed, and bitten by dogs, then leave Finland on a cruise ship to Sweden.
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After the Game: Legends Field and Meeting George Steinbrenner
Well, after the baseball game, my friend and road dog decided to chill and take in the beach, view Raymond James Stadium (where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play) & take a tour of Legends Field, the spring training home of the New York Yankees. Soon thereafter, we met up with George Steinbrenner.
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Reinstalling Windows drivers a lot less painful with Driver Magician
Somehow APC got signed up to a bunch of press release lists from places like Russia and China. Every day, the news tips inbox is chockers with announcements about apps that will let us watch 3,000 cable TV channels 100% legally on our computer as well as jaw-droppingly niche programs like dog agility training course
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BBC's "Also in the News": Odd and Surprising Stories From Around the World.
Everyone loves completely random stories sometimes, so the BBC has created an area on their website specifically for sharing these 'odd' stories. Currently featuring the German who mistakes an underground train entrance for a car park and the artist who ate a dog live on British radio, as well as many more...
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WAG HOTELS - REDEFINING DOG & CAT BOARDING, CARE & KENNELS
Wag Hotels offers luxurious amenities for cats and dogs. Wag Hotels aim is to redefine kennel and boarding service for pets into a luxurious hotel stay. They offer elegantly furnished suites, specialized pool, pet massage, grooming and play areas. Extensively trained staff caters to pet guests every need, and ensures their health and safety.
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china manufacturer and factory of horse carts,sulky carts,horse carriages,miniature horse cart,marathon carriages,dog carts,saddlery,mini,pony horse cart,Arab horse carts,llama carts,horse carts,horse training cart,easy entry horse carts,pleasure horse carts.hardware saddlery,horse products
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Vick's Dogs Dying Anyway?
Yes, dogfighting is cruel. Yes, Vick and his cronies buying dogs, "training" them and then fighting them to the death is cruelty. You're not going to hear me say otherwise - it's a vicious thing to do and he deserves jail time for his misdeeds. But at the end of the day - aren't they just going to die anyway?
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Snatched Sniffer Dog Found in Park
An elite Mexican sniffer dog kidnapped five days ago was found abandoned in a Mexico City park on Monday and reunited with its police handlers. Working on a tip, federal police found Rex IV -- a highly trained Belgian Malinois sheepdog with a string of drug hauls to its name -- tied to a tree in a park.
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Disc-sniffing dogs assist NY Police and the MPAA
Two disc-sniffing dogs assisted Queens County and Motion Picture Association of America authorities to ferret out the alleged culprits, who became the nation's first to be hunted by black Labrador retrievers trained to sniff out polycarbonate and other chemicals in optical discs, officials said Wednesday.
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MaineToday.com | A Dog's Life: Can't take it any more!
I fell asleep last night watching (and cringing) to Dog Whisperer week on the National Geographic Channel. Some trainers think the show is good for the training biz industry. It shows the public that hiring a trainer can help them. Not me!
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Murderer Finds A Way To Help Returning Vet (Hint: There's a Dog Involved)
His left leg amputated in the war in Iraq, 28-year-old Army Specialist Raymond Hubbard needed help. And convicted murderer Barbara Goucher came to his aid. She spent her last year in prison in Massachusetts training a 2-year-old black Labrador retriever, Dace, who would become Hubbard's new service dog.
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Trained as Developer's Best Friend: Yellow Dog Linux and 64-bit Y-HPC
IBM says Yellow Dog Linux has boosted recognition of PowerPC microprocessors with support for desktop, embedded, and HPC systems. What's more, Terra Soft's advancements with Y-HPC, developed as a PowerPC Linux release supporting 64-bit systems, has attracted Linux developers interested in porting to, or developing for, Linux on Power Architecture.
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WAG STORES - EXCLUSIVE STORE FOR DOGS AND CATS
An exclusive boutique for pets. Buy gifts, accessories, treats and toys for the little people in your life – dogs & cats. Wag Stores gets you a premium range of pet-care products, as well as beds, apparel, carriers and gifts all under one roof. Extensively trained staff helps you find the right things for your buddy.
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dog to be trained as a hearing alert dog, 7th try
support on this worthy wish is needed. help this poor great-grandmother this simple aid to daily living. she is isolated to the point of danger by her deafness. unfortunately hearing aids are not a good option for her, due to a skin condition in her ears.
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World Hot Dog-Eating Champion Crippled by Jaw Injury
Kobayashi, who set a world record by wolfing down dozens of hot dogs within minutes, has knackered his jaw due to his rigorous training, making his next title uncertain. Ironically enough he can presumably now only eat through a straw.
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Affiliate Marketing Niche Are You In The Right One
An affiliate marketing niche is a great way to start a small business on the internet and make money. But what is it. A niche is a specific area of a broad theme. Dogs is a theme, dog training is a niche. If you want to build an authority website you would build a theme website and then add several niches to it. Sub domains are one way to do that.
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Why are dogs being trained to sniff out (pirated) CDs?
A few thoughts about the "pirated-DVDs-sniffing dogs with a bounty on their heads". If they can't tell the difference between a legit DVD and a pirate DVD, what's the point, really? If I were in the biz of pirating, I'd just throw around a gazillion of the AOL / Earthlink CDs and watch 'em chase their tails around the neighborhood.
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NASA Engineer Helps Train Puppy for Future Leadership Role
One of NASA's newest workers is a top dog ... literally. A golden retriever puppy named Aries goes to work every day at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. as part of the "Leader Dogs for the Blind" program. Her mentor is structural engineer Evan Horowitz.
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Dogs Sniff Out Pirated Movies
"Fresh from a successful one-month stint in Malaysia, where they angered movie pirates by helping authorities uncover 1.3 million discs and burners worth about $3.3 million, Lucky and Flo [the dogs] are now training their noses on the Philippines. In the first hour alone... they seized at least 300,000 pirated discs and arrested 11 people"
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Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation - Whiting Family - Fidelco Fosters
Justgiving Fundraising Page - OK, it's not actually news that charities require donations to survive, but perhaps the existence of a guide dog training program in central CT is news to you. If you happen to have piles of money (large or small) and are looking for a good cause to support, this one definitely qualifies! Check out Fidelco!!
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