February 2008 - Posts

• Feb 25 2008 Everybody needs a job By patty_hegwood

  Just the other day, I was over at Dogtown for a visit to see how the dogs were coming along when all of a sudden an enormous head came around the corner. Behind the head, holding a very sturdy leash, was one of the most adoring fans of these precious... Read full blog posting >> with 30 comment(s)

• Feb 20 2008 UFO sightings By davidd

  Over at the play areas for the Vicktory dogs there have been some mighty strange happenings going on of late. In fact, flying saucers touching down on the sand, thereafter to spill out little green men with laser guns, would be about on par. Brace yourselves... Read full blog posting >> with 27 comment(s)

• Feb 17 2008 On cloning your pit bull By Michael Mountain

  Dear Bernann McKunney, It's all over the news today that you're paying $150,000 to clone your dead pit bull pet, Booger. We can all imagine how much you miss Booger. You say he saved you when another dog reportedly bit off your arm. (Nice to hear... Read full blog posting >> with 6 comment(s)

• Feb 15 2008 Your suggestions for treatment By drfrank

  One of the most gratifying aspects of the publicity the Vicktory dogs have received is the outpouring of support, sympathy, concern and generosity from wonderful people all over the country. I have been especially appreciative of all the kind individuals... Read full blog posting >> with 5 comment(s)

• Feb 15 2008 Seppi talks turkey to those who say “Kill the dogs” By seppi

  (Seppi the Cockatoo has his own column in Best Friends magazine, where he gets to critique the various articles. Today, however, he gets to squawk about an e-mail from PETA about the Vicktory dogs.) A remarkable document crossed my perch today – a response... Read full blog posting >> with 29 comment(s)

• Feb 13 2008 Seeing Was Believing By davidd

  When I was in elementary school I saw something, waiting at the bus stop one morning, that tied my stomach in knots and left me feeling afraid for weeks. Two stray dogs got into a fight not twenty feet away from us kids. I wasn't worried the dogs... Read full blog posting >> with 6 comment(s)

• Feb 12 2008 Freedom and some healthy exercise By davidd

  For many of the Vicktory dogs, big open spaces are a new thing. Freedom to roam and explore was unheard of in their previous lives. Freedom to play never entered the picture. But that's exactly what the dogs have been getting ... even if they don't... Read full blog posting >> with 6 comment(s)

• Feb 12 2008 A question you might be asking By drfrank

  When our team traveled to the east coast to make our assessment of 28 of the Vick dogs (of which 22 ultimately came to Best Friends) we were extremely pleased to find the dogs to be, for the most part, very friendly and affectionate. We saw very little... Read full blog posting >> with 6 comment(s)

• Feb 11 2008 Ellen meets the in-laws By patty_hegwood

  My in-laws recently came to Best Friends for a visit. They are from New Orleans, so Tuesday being Mardi Gras, they of course brought beads and a bit of festivity to our snowy landscape here in Southern Utah. My husband, Jason, comes from a good ole fashioned... Read full blog posting >> with 4 comment(s)

• Feb 06 2008 Oliver and Curly, the “turkeys” By patty_hegwood

  In my last post, I was writing about the cupcakes, cheesecakes, beefcakes, etc. Now the turkeys ... Oliver and Curly look like brothers and actually share some of the same characteristics. They can also be quite a challenge to the staff ... but not as... Read full blog posting >> with 2 comment(s)

• Feb 03 2008 Not A Bill Clinton Among Them By FrancisB

  Dogs have been such familiar associates of human-kind for so long that dog breeds along with dog characteristics and traits have long been used without qualification or footnoted definition in literature and the press to describe humans and human behavior... Read full blog posting >> with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Dogs, Best Friends, Vick, pit bulls, humor, Vicktory

• Feb 01 2008 They’re front page on the New York Times By Michael Mountain

  Most of the journalists and TV reporters who came to meet the Vicktory dogs last Monday stayed a few hours. Juliet Macur, from the New York Times, stayed a few days. I said goodbye to her on Monday afternoon, but here she was again on Tuesday morning... Read full blog posting >> with 9 comment(s)

• Feb 01 2008 Bombing the animals By Michael Mountain

  Dear Al Qaeda, I just don't get it. Sure, you don't like what the Americans are doing – or the Europeans. You don't like the West. You don't like capitalism or the Israelis or the Shiites or anyone. OK, we get all of that. We may not agree... Read full blog posting >> with 6 comment(s)

• Feb 01 2008 Bring back the Taliban? By Michael Mountain

  Well, not quite. But while we're focusing on the horrors of dog fighting in the United States, let's at least give a nod to the fact that when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2002, one of the first things they did was to ban dog fights... Read full blog posting >> with 1 comment(s)

• Feb 01 2008 Why are the black dogs more scared? By drfrank

  In looking at the findings that I have collected so far on the emotional status of the 22 dogs that we took in, an especially interesting finding began to emerge. I was looking for specific traits that could be correlated to specific emotional states... Read full blog posting >> with 11 comment(s)