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Anna Westhoff Each week, Ben Westhoff shares the ups and downs of owning Pippi, the Dalmatian mix he and his wife, Anna, adopted as a puppy in late 2009. Many readers expressed concern about our post from a couple weeks ago, in which we noted that, despite Pippi's traumatizing experience at the kennel earlier this year -- she got frighteningly sick and lost a bunch of weight -- we decided to bring her there again during a recent vacation. "Please reconsider," pleaded one Doggie Diaries reader. "I don't understand why you would put Pippi back in the same situation that made her so miserable before," said another. Trust us, we would prefer to board her with a friend or have someone come ...
Best Friends Pet Care A new luxury pet-only resort has just opened its doors across from Walt Disney World's Port Orleans Resort. The Best Friends Pet Care Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., boasts 50,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space (17,000 feet of it air conditioned), 10,000 square feet of covered outdoor play space, and a dog park for the exclusive use of the pets staying there (and their owners when they come visit). This means you can drop off your cat or dog on the way to your hotel and know your pet is staying in comfort and luxury. Now, while you're getting your thrills on Space Mountain, you can schedule exciting services for your furry friend, like cuddle time and ice ...
Pippi taken by our neighbor/dogsitter extraordinaire, after our pooch had destroyed her dog bed. Anna and I got married in October, but we waited until March for our honeymoon, wanting to escape from, what is to us, the most depressing Northeastern winter month. Our two weeks in Panama were spectacular. The only stressful part was worrying about Pippi, back at home. On previous travels, we'd boarded her, but she always seemed to return home a bit stressed out. Based partly on recommendations from our readers, we decided to find a home sitter this time, but that was easier said than done. The ad we posted at our local Y drew only unsatisfactory applicants, and all of the sitting ...
LaiLa. Anne Galasso For three weeks this December, two female black Labrador retrievers named Bella and LaiLa spent the holidays with strangers when a kennel returned them to the wrong families, reports the Seattle Times. "It was very upsetting," Bella's owner, Stacey Peterson tells Paw Nation. "When we found out the dog we had was not our dog, we were worried because we didn't know where our dog was." "I was totally shocked," LaiLa's owner, Anne Galasso, tells Paw Nation. "It's like picking up the wrong kid from day care." But neither Peterson nor Galasso personally picked up their dogs from PetSmart PetsHotel in Issaqua, Wash., where Bella had been boarded and LaiLa had spent one day ...
With some TLC, soon Sheena will look as healthy as this Bengal. Photo: law_keven, Flickr Back in February, a Bengal tiger named Sheena was found in a Missouri puppy mill. She weighed around 175 pounds (she should have been closer to 400) and was surviving in a small pen littered with feces, urine, and dog corpses. A small amount of dog food and a couple of possums were tossed into the cage as well. Among Sheena's health problems were boils on her paws and tongue, unexplained wounds, poor posture due in some part to the fact that she was declawed, along with vision problems. When first brought to the National Tiger Sanctuary near Bloomsdale, Missouri, she was afraid to go outside. ...