Lizzie and I were recently in Palm Beach, but we didn’t get to see any of these cool dogs. that are in this cool video about the dogs of palm beach from Beach WalkTv.
I love the story about the dog who had not seen his trainer in about 7 years. Goes to show you how smart dogs really are.
I just came across this video on Gadgetspy after being messaged on Stumbleupon by Scousemonkey(thanks Scousemonkey).
This Dog fetching robot looks pretty cool, and I imagine with a bit of customization, it will be out on the market in no time. Jerry, the Dachshund seems to really dig it. I wonder how hard it was to teach Jerry to load the ball back on.
Looks like a great toy to keep pets company that are left alone during the day.
I just published a hub on hubpages about Pet Tracking, which is about two types of tracking…the type of tracking that involves injecting or embedding a micro chip in your pet and the kind witch allows the pet owner to track their lost pet via a collar that has a chip on it, and has a hand held GPS unit to track the animal.
I think that using either one of these is a good idea, because having a lost pet really is an emotional ordeal that can be prevented, so why not do one or the other for your pet.
What about you, what do you think about pet tracking?
Winter is here in PA, and even though it is a warm winter, nights still get pretty cold. The old boy Herman, frequently does not want to go out at night, and will camp out on the radiator after he eats. Diddy, on the other hand usually goes out, and it is us who often makes the decision not to let him go out rather than him.
On nights when it gets below freezing, pets should not be let out all night. For cats, such as mine, this might mean those little devils are waking you up in the night with their antics. For us it usually means that Herman will be camping out on our bed at the foot on either Lizzie’s feet or mine…usually Lizzie’s because I tend to move around too much for Herman.
Do you let your cats out at night? Do you keep them in during the winter months?
Just a quick little post to let people know about a post on Queen of the Surf Pirates. Paula, or rather the amazing Sammy 
the Surf dog, who I wrote about in a Sammy The Surf Dog post, did a review of Pettags.com. Sammy’s Pettags review, is really funny, although Sammy initially did not want to do the review, he got really excited about it when Paula told him it was for Pettags, because he apparently has been proudly sporting a blue bone shaped pet tag for some time.
In addition to the the dog collars and pet tags, Sammy was pretty impressed with the “Lost human Pet Recovery Program tag so in case my momma gets lost and forgets me on the beach or somthin”.
Check out Sammy’s hilarious review of Pettags, and also please Click the hyper linked picture Sammy Gear Logo to stop by Sammy’s Cafepress store and pick some Sammy gear.
Today the BlogCatalog blogging event Bloggers against abuse will be happening all over the blogosphere. Thousands of blogs 
will be posting about different types of abuse. Since this is a Pet Blog, Animal Abuse will be the topic of choice.
Now I must admit, I am not a member of PETA and could not be considered to be an animal rights activist by any means. So the first question I need to ask myself and any readers who happen upon the Animal Abuse post? What is animal abuse?
Here are some examples of what I consider to be animal abuse, and please feel free to comment if you have something else to add:
Off the top of my head, this is what I came up with for the event. I actually had not planned on participating in the event, but as it occurs, this post on Animal Abuse has come about. I will add links to the bottom of this post to other Animal Abuse posts to show support for the event and to connect readers to other Animal Abuse posts.
Animal Abuse Posts
Update:
Requested by Liudmila of http://animals-as-friends.blogspot.com/ to add the Use of Animals for Scientific testing to the list of Animal Abuse examples.
If you are a reader of our Travel Blog, you will know that we have gone to the Outer Banks for more than one vacation. In preparation for our OBX trip the year before, I was doing a bit of research on Avon, and came across the blog Paula Queen of The Surf Pirates. Paula is a mom of two, an educator, a surfer, and a pet owner.
Her pet Sammy does daily surf reports(with a little of Paula’s help) that are really funny and helpful. In these surf reports, Sammy tells about his daily beach adventures to include chasing birds and waves. Sammy is also a bit opinionated about cars being aloud on the beach. Recently, Sammy was hit by a car while trying to protect his momma from being hit by a 
drunk driver, but he managed to come out with only a broken leg, and had to stay off the surf for several weeks.
To help Paula with Sammy’s hospital bills, I bought a Sammy Gear hat from Sammy and Paula’s Cafepress store. I actually made a video of myself wearing the hat.
The video was intended to talk about BlogRush, which is a new(several weeks) blog syndication program that involves putting a widget like the Mybloglog or Blogcatalog widgets, which lets you get 1 impression on another blogs widget for every impression your blog has. I have the widget on another blog, but have yet to put it on this blog, because this is a WordPress.com blog, and it does not allow Javascript widgets in the sidebar. I would have to get access to the CSS, but I have yet to upgrade the blogs membership.
Anyway I think the highpoint of the little goofy video was me showing off my new Sammy Gear hat. Check it out, and if you are so inclinded, stop by Paula and Sammy’s store and buy some Sammy Gear.
I was just reading this article that tells you how to toilet train your cat. According to the article it can be done in a time frame between several days to several weeks.
It involves moving the proximity of the cat box gradually closer to the toilet so that the box is on top of the toilet, and reducing the amount of litter that is in the box at the same time, then switching to wax paper when the proximity is on top of the toilet and the amount of litter is nil.
I am not sure if this method would work, but I would be very interested to find out if any one has been successful at using the method.
I was just updating my Collar post and I thought I would write an update post about the cats.
Diddy has taken to jumping on my leg, usually in the morning prior to being fed. Its always him jumping on my calf as I pass him. I guess he is hungry and attacks the first thing that pops into his view. He never scratches or draws blood, but it is a bit scary when you are not expecting it. Which I think is his intent.
Throughout the day, Diddy will move from napping spot to napping spot. One of his favorite spots to nap is a big plant saucer that is in front of one of the living room windows. Once I bring the planter in for the winter, I am quite sure Diddy will again take up residence among the Mexican petunias and sweet potato vines.
Herman the older cat comes in on a regular basis now, and has even spent and
occasional evening inside. The other morning I spotted him eating a fresh kill for his breakfast. I suppose on the mornings he does not show up for breakfast, he has had a good night of hunting.
I was contacted by Anthony of PetPop.com who wanted me to check out his pet site and do a little review of Petpop.
Pet owners and I am guessing pet website owners, could use the site to post pet pictures on as well as videos of their pets.
When I first went onto the Petpop.com, I actually thought I was on Flickr, because Pthe bottom navigation is so very similar to Flickr. In fact like Flickr which is were I have all my pictures hosted, Petpop is kind of like that, in that it seeks to develop a community of pet owners that will keep their pet pictures and videos there, and check out other members pics as well.
In my brief time checking out the site, I did see some really cool photos, like the one to the left.
In order to comment on pictures you are required to join the community. After joining, you can not only leave comments, but you can then post your own pet pictures and videos as well.
I also noticed that there is a contest page, that businesses can sponsor. Currently it seems there are not any contests running, but I will have to check back in the future to see what they will have.
Much like Pettags.com our sponsor, PetPop also has a pet forum. Hmm, maybe I will have to sign up for this one as well. Can you ever belong to too many pet forums? I think not.
Semi-related pet resources:
Dbuj.com has a pet shopping category section with lots of groovy pet related sites.
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