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  • Members of the Pinecrest dog park committee wore matching t-shirts that calll for a park at Veterans Wayside Park on Oct. 8.

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    Veterans don’t want Pinecrest park going to the dogs

    Pinecrest council members are talking about putting a dog park at Veterans Wayside Park. But the American Legion objects.

  • Pet Vet: A closer look at rabies virus vaccination

    Recently, a "Letter to the Editor" appeared in The Modesto Bee concerning vaccination. Specifically, the writer was questioning how a pet caretaker is to truly know their companion is protected against a particular disease by vaccination. Rabies vaccination was the main subject.

  • Let's face it: Dogs like the feel of wind in the car

    Charlie is not about to let a bunch of experts, well-intentioned though they may be, deny him his greatest pleasure: riding in a car with his head out the window.

  • We love our dogs; scientist proves they love us back

    Let me start by saying I almost never review books about animals. Everyone who has ever written one has an opinion and normally, its just that - his or her opinion. And there are as many of those as there are people.

  • Trainer Brandon Mcmillan works with Willie, a Tibetan terrier rescued from a Los Angeles County shelter.

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    22 dogs will get lucky on new CBS show

    Brandon McMillan has trained as many as 10,000 dogs for television, movies, commercials, videos and people. Then he started saving dogs from animal shelters, training them and finding homes for them.

  • Want to raise rabbits? Slim odds of warm, fuzzy ending

    The five women in the "Raise City Rabbits" class at Seattle Tilth have some soul-searching to do.

  • Dr. Dolittler

    Use muzzle to curb ‘garbage gut’

    Quite apart from the “ick” factor, “crispy frogs” could prove toxic if they are from the toad species known as Bufus marinus or Bufo. Then there’s the inevitable diarrhea to clean up after she comes down with the condition we veterinarians call “garbage gut.” And how about the possibility of picking up intestinal parasites from cat scat?

  • Feral cats on the firing line, again

    It's been almost two years since I reported an attempt by the American Bird Conservancy to convince mayors in 50 large American cities that programs to provide for feral cats, referred to as TNVR (trap, neuter, vaccinate and return), were contributing to the deaths of hundreds of millions of wild birds and other animals each year, including endangered species.

  • Officer Edison Cruz of the Pinecrest Police Department and Clara Sania, a Pinecrest resident, held down Mud the pig for half an hour at the Corner of Southwest 114th Street and 61st Court on Sept. 22. The pig escaped from a home on the 12300 block of Southwest 63rd Lane earlier that morning.

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    Pinecrest pig chase: Kids, nanny, neighbors and cop join hunt for escaped pet

    A Pinecrest man’s 200-pound potbellied pig led a chase through the village.

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