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Pet Rescue has a number of adoptable cats and dogs at our shelter that could really use a wonderful home, just like yours! Have a look at some of the pets in our care and see if one touches your heart. If not, call us at 305-621-8354 and arrange a time to visit the shelter to see the other pups and kitties that want to go home with you.
Easter Can Be Dangerous For Pets
Originally posted March 27th, 2007
Not familiar with Easter? Click here for more information.
We hope you have a wonderful Easter holiday. We want to remind you, however, that Easter can be a dangerous time for your four-legged best friends.
One of Easter's prettiest decorations can be deadly to your cat. Easter lilies are poisonous to cats and can cause kidney failure when eaten in even small quantities. Keep lilies where your cat can't get to them and if your cat does eat the lilies, take him/her to the vet immediately.Dogs can become sick from eating something they seem to absolutely love - chocolate. It would take quite a bit of milk chocolate to kill a dog. None the less, with all the chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs available at this time of year, precautions should be taken to protect your dog from the adverse effects of eating chocolate, even if it is just an upset tummy.
Theobromine is chocolate's poisonous component. Symptoms of theobromine toxicity include vomiting, diarrhea, increased urination and/or hyperactivity. This can progress to an increased heart rate, which can cause arrhythmia, restlessness, hyperactivity, muscle twitching and excessive panting. That, in turn, can lead to hyperthermia, muscle tremors, seizures, coma and even death.
According to PetCareTips.net, and verified on the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center, one pound of milk chocolate or two ounces of Bakers' chocolate can be toxic to a 20-pound dog. PetCareTips.net also says that white chocolate, which has the lowest amount of theobromine, would require that 20-pound pup to eat over 200-pounds of the stuff to be poisoned. How a 20-pound dog would be able to eat 200-pounds of anything is beyond us, but almost any 20-pound pup can pack away a pound of milk chocolate and can certainly snarf up two ounces of Bakers' chocolate.
Finally, Ellie Brecher's blog, Crazy for Critters, has a recent post reminding everyone to Resist the Rabbit Urge by not succumbing to the desire to give pet bunnies (or ducklings) as Easter gifts. Click this link to read the appropriate section of Ellie's blog, or this link to read a recent MiamiHerald.com story on the same topic.
The bottom line is, if you, or one of your friends or neighbors, absolutely, positively must have a pet for Easter, come on down to Pet Rescue and adopt a cat or dog. If you simply can't come to Pet Rescue, then go to your local Humane Society or any other animal shelter and get your pet there. But please, no bunnies or ducklings.Have a great Easter, Passover and/or Mawlid al-Nabi. Stay safe and be kind to others, especially the animals.
For those celebrating Passover, please have a safe, happy and uplifting holiday seder. From everyone at Pet Rescue, we wish you a joyous Pesach.
Not familiar with Passover? Click here for more information.
PASADENA - They're small, very fast and absolutely amazing! At least that's the word from the few people that have seen them, outside of the researchers at the facility where they have been bred. Scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (CIT), in cooperation with the Canine Genetics Unit (CGU) of the Veterinary Genetics Lab (VGL) at the University of California Davis (UCD) combined their efforts to develop an amazing new breed of dog. The first-ever Hover Pup.
Researchers at JPL had been working on methods of lightening materials to enable a greater safety margin during landings of space probes on other planets. The thinking was that if the materials that made up the space probes were lighter, the chance of damage during landing would be less. This is especially important during landings of probes on larger planets that have levels of gravity significantly greater than that on earth.
At the same time, the folks at the VGL, using a newly developed advanced recombinant DNA mutation technique, called Nanogenic Amniocentopic Deoxynucleic Acanisthomesis (NADA), were able to use nanotechnology to engineer changes to the recombinant gene sequences of DNA samples that had been collected from dogs using cheek swabs. The breakthrough nanotechnology operation had an unexpected side effect.
In a chance meeting at a San Diego area Flyball competition, Dr. Una Beleeve and Dr. Ersatz Floatermann met while Una was competing with her dachshund, Ari, and Ersatz was watching, accompanied by his beagle, Bob. In discussing their work, they realized that the research could be combined. It would be possible to actually build mechanical additions directly into the DNA sequences of certain dogs. This allowed the JPL research team to add their materials lightening technology to the CGU's NADA technique. Working together under a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), they were able to achieve demonstrable lift effects in small breeds. Shorter legs were a prerequisite to enable the hover effect to be easily observed. Over the next six years, actual hovering was readily achieved in Jack Russel Terriers (JRT) and Dachshunds. This result was somewhat discounted in JRTs due to historical data showing that JRTs have always appeared to hover due to excessive vibration when they are overly excited. It was decided from the outset that Border Collies and Australian Shepards would not be used in the testing program since they apparently can already fly, at least for short durations.
In early 2005, Bob, the beagle, passed away in a tragic accident while hovering near a precipice at Overlook Park next to the Pacific Coast Highway. At that time, dog hovering only worked within inches of the ground. Straying too close to the cliff's edge, Bob was unable to stay aloft. His downward momentum was slowed, but was unable to save him. Ersatz pledged that such a tragedy would never happen again and worked harder than ever to assure a positive result. A breakthrough was 
achieved in mid-2006, however, with Dr. Floatermann's new dog, a rare Galleggiante named Rocket. The Galleggiante is an Italian breed, very similar to a standard Beagle. Rocket, who received numerous NADA nanotechnology procedures from the age of 10-weeks, became a star, achieving extraordinary altitudes during hover. As you can see in the photo above, a research assistant is amazed as Rocket zooms about the laboratory at JPL.
With Rocket's exceptional display, it was thought best to keep the dogs demonstrating advanced hovering abilities indoors, or at least 
within the confines of the net covered outdoor training facility, as seen in the photo above. This policy was reinforced when a highly skilled JRT nearly escaped. Only the quick response by an extremely tall, high-jumping research assistant prevented the JRTs loss, as pictured at left. Of course, all of the research was being conducted in extreme secrecy under the terms of the funding agreement with DARPA. No one outside of the VGL and JPL community was aware of the positive results of the research until an unexpected security breach occurred.
The lab's cat, Cloudy, had been sneaking into the NADA storage cupboard for some time, or so it was learned later, and had been eating NADA nanites, which, over time, afecter her DNA. Cloudy slipped out of the lab and, being untrained in hovering, lost control of her buoyancy. 
In an ironic twist, the Pasadena Humane Society was holding their annual Doglegs, Birdies and Eagles Golf and Tennis Tournament near the JPL labs. The cat climbed the tennis backstop fence and drifted above center court during a semi-final match. One of the players was so distracted by the cat floating above her that she let an easy overhead return sail by, as seen in the photo at right. Of course, with Cloudy's escape and subsequent high-visibility appearance at the tennis tournament, the cat was out of the bag, literally.
An internal review is underway by the Inspector General's Office of DARPA's funding of the NADA research by VGL/JPL into canine hover, and the lack of testing on felines that led to the unfortunate lapse in security upon the escape of Cloudy. Security has been tightened at the labs, not only to keep the animals in, but to keep reporters out. As more information arises, we will try to bring it to you.
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Life Lessons From Your Dog. . .
If a dog was the teacher, this is what you would learn:
Originally posted March 19th, 2007
MIAMI LAKES, March 18th, 2007 - The 5th Annual Lucky Charms Pet Parade was a terrific success. Scores of booths, hundreds of dogs and many times that number of people gathered in the park to strut their stuff around the lake.Pictures of the parade are available on-line. To make them easily accessible, the quality and sizes of the images have been decreased to make the transfer more quickly of the web. If you find a picture you really like, let us know and we can e-mail you the original, high-quality, full-size (1200x1600) image. All we ask is that in return is for you to make a donation to Pet Rescue. Whatever you think is a just amount is just fine with us.You can see all our photos of the Pet Parade right now on Google's Picasaweb. To see the pictures on our Picasaweb gallery you can click here.The Florida Pet Book has an article and pictures available online of the Pet Parade! You can see their photos by clicking here.Professional photographer Stephen Wolter has posted his pictures of the Pet Parade too. You can see them here on his website.
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Who's The Guy Making The Blog?
Hello, I'm John and I'm setting up the blog. Years ago I wrote the original website for Pet Rescue. Technology moves ahead and here comes the blog.
I'm a former Dade Marine Institute instructor, Arvida construction supervisor and Dade County School teacher (Adult Ed. for Radio Broadcasting at Miami Lakes Tech.Ed. Center). Also a former D.J. and newscaster at a couple of local Miami radio stations. Now a days, I play on the computer.
Then there are the monochrome boys. Mike and Kirby. Kirby is the old guy, at right. He's a Border Collie and will be 13-years old in December. Starting to feel his age a bit - damn arthritis!
Mike is younger, at left, and only 8years-old. I thought he was a Border Collie when I found him at Broward Humane when he was 10-weeks old. Not a chance. He is a Terrier through and through. When I leave the house, Kirby wants to re-wire the electrical system. Mike just runs round and round trying to hand him tools, feverishy repeating, "let me help, let me help," or so it goes in my imagination. BCs are BCs, and terriers are terriers.
At ten-weeks old, they did look remarkably alike. That's mike on the right and Kirby below on the left, both at 10-weeks of age. They certainly aren't that size any more. Kirby is just shy of 70-pounds. Mike weighs in at about 30-pounds.
From the pictures, you should get an idea why they are called the Monochrome Boys. Black and white is all there is with these guys, except for their red collars. When I see friends, however, they simply ask, "How are the boys?" The answer, of course, is that the boys are all right. Absolutely.
Anyway, I've been working on getting the blog running for about two weeks. The tweaking and twisting goes on to make it just right, to add functionality and make sure that the information is worth your time to come, visit and read. Enjoy the blog.
The time has come to start a blog. We've had a website for quite a while, but this way we can stay in touch much easier and keep you up to date on what's happening with us, the shelter and all the dogs and cats that come into our care.Check back often for the most current information on adoptees, events and information on what you can do to help Pet Rescue.
