Late on Friday night, Diamond Pet Foods issued a voluntary recall on dry dog foods manufactured in their South Carolina plant with ‘best by’ dates of December 9, 2012 through April 7, 2013. Several other brands have since issued preventative recalls as well. The reason for the recalls is contamination by salmonella. 14 people so far, including one person as close as Connecticut, have been diagnosed with salmonella. For a description of…
Sugar the Flying Cat Survives Fall from 19th Floor
This is Sugar. Yesterday, in the unseasonably warm weather, a window was opened in her apartment on the 19th floor of her building. Sugar fell out the window and was rescued and treated by by the great folks at Animal Rescue League of Boston, and today she’s home with her family, with only some bruised lungs and a good story to show for it. She…
Black Out in Back Bay
Amazing how different life feels when suddenly the power’s gone. We hope you’ll forgive this delayed post about being closed for the day (as we have no internet connection on site). If you don’t live in Boston, then you might not know what’s going on. A fire in a transformer station last night resulted in a blackout through out Back Bay. We’ll re-open our doors…
Calling all Kitty Helpers! Cat Food Donation Drive!
Do you want to do something to help homeless cats? We’ve got an easy way to help. The Animal Rescue League of Boston works with the Boston Homeless Cats Group (BHCG) to manage the population of feral cats through “Trap, Neuter Spay and Release” programs. These programs reduce the feral cat population, protect cats and humans from diseases like rabies, and provide a humane and effective alternative to other population management…
Win a Pot O’ Gold & Help Spike’s Fund
We’re running a contest, and for a buck (all of which goes to MSPCA’s Spike’s Fund), you can enter to win a pot of gold! Yes, gold. Well, what gold is to some dogs that is. Our pot o’gold is a bucket of brand-new, dog-friendly, fuzzy, bouncy tennis balls. And we’re giving one away in each of our two stores (Fish & Bone and Fetch…
Dogs and Meat, a Medium-Rare Story
Extra, extra! People feeding raw meat to their pets! Read all about it! Um, we hate to break it to you, New York Times, but raw feeding is hardly news. Way, way back, before Dog Chow, and before conglomerates found they could make money from the grain fragments leftover from manufacturing corn flakes by putting it into dog food, dogs ate meat. Though this article…
Cat in An Empty Apartment
Did you, like me, love the Kieslowski 3 Colors Trilogy (Blue/White/Red)? Then maybe you already know that it was inspired by a poem, Love At First Sight, by Wislawa Szymborska ? I didn’t, which is kind of sad, given I just rewatched the trilogy last winter. But I don’t go looking for poems. I like them to find me. I came across the poem below…
Chancer the Wonder Dog
With so much buzz around the Super Bowl you might have missed this story in the NY Times Magazine yesterday. Summary: couple adopts two babies from Russia in 1999. Not siblings, but from the same orphanage. Their little girl thrives, but their new baby boy does not. At age 4, he’s diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, meaning he’s suffered irreversible central nervous system and brain…