Dog Picture of the Day

"Dog Medication DB is a database of dog medications with information on what parasites and bugs it protects against."

http://www.dogmedicationdb.com

"The days when residents of Hernani, Spain could walk their dog and trot away from its droppings without the threat of enforceable repercussions are gone.

Last week, the town council approved a bylaw that would require owners to register their pet’s DNA with a municipal dog census, reports The Telegraph."

'Canine CSI': DNA Evidence Links Dogs to Excrement

"Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Dogs are man’s best friend; cats are man’s best frenemy. Dogs come when called; cats take a message and get back to you."

"If humans were a radio station, dogs would listen to us all day long. Cats would spend half their time surfing other channels on the dial."

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2014/12/09/guest-post-the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs

Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs

"We talked with each other for twelve years. To be honest, I did most of the talking, he did most of the listening. I knew he was actively engaged because he would cock his head slightly, just so, and look at me unblinkingly with his warm, beautiful brown eyes. We started at a conversational run, no baby talk. From the beginning it was all about politics, international relations, war, peace, and the logistics of nutrition. The latter, I admit, was more to his liking, and I never managed to discover whether he was indeed a Keynesian, as I am. Now, in hindsight, I think he was secretly Friedmanesque, but wanted to keep the peace between us."

https://medium.com/human-parts/conversations-with-dogs-92ece66b751b

A dozen hybrid dog types.

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"Scientists have long debated how humans turned wild wolves into domesticated dogs. Several have hypothesized that people selected wolves that were especially cooperative, and continued to develop that trait when breeding the first dogs, thus creating animals that are eager to work with us."

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Dogs don't have to cooperate to survive. Just do what you're told and the big tall guys will feed AND let you reproduce. If not, well then, you are out of the gene pool--probably immediately and brutally, given the time when dogs were likely to have been created.

"A Great Dane who was taken to an emergency animal hospital in February after consuming 43-and-a-half socks not only survived his ordeal, but has gone on to appear in Veterinary Practice News as one of the winners of the magazine’s annual X-ray contest. The Associated Press subsequently picked up on the story of the 3-year-old male from Portland, Oregon (who remained anonymous)."

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The picture is of a 5 month old black Lab named Tuesday, missing from the Concord Ave/ Royal Ave area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday 5 Sept. The dog has a collar and tags and is tattooed. Please call 617-909-9855 with any sightings or other information.