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BioArts International is planning online auctions to clone 5 dogs. Bidding will start at $100,000. BioArts cloned 3 pups from Missy, a border-husky mix last December. Dogs are difficult to clone because they have a reproductive biology more unusual even than human.
Making a donation? Don’t confuse the 142 year old American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ASPCA) with SPCA International which has been accused of having questionable practices.
The money that Americans spend on their pets is greater than the gross domestic product of all but 70 countries.
Enzo, a TV-educated dog, tells his tale in "The Art of Racing in the Rain", a novel by Garth Stein.
The National Enquirer reports that Oprah advised Jennifer Aniston to stop waiting for the man of her dreams and get a dog instead. Oprah’s pets have “fulfilled her in a way that has never made her miss getting married or having children”. We’re not sure Aniston is listening. She’s dating singer-guitarist John Mayer.
Moscow estimates that it has 26,000 stray dogs. And they’ve figured out how the city works. They wait at subway doors then ride the trains; they stand at a street corner and cross on the green (dogs are color blind, so it’s assumed they recognize the walking-man signal); and they lie in busy subway passages where people give them food. “The dogs know Muscovites better than Muscovites know the dogs,” says a researcher. Click here for more regarding this Little Bite.
In Arthur Conan Doyle's story, "The Adventure of Silver Blaze", Sherlock Holmes solved the case because the dog didn't bark which meant that the dog knew the killer.
About 30 companies, including IAMS, Purina, Pedigree & Petco, agreed to pay $24 million to pet owners linked to the death of thousands of dogs and cats from contaminated foods. Click this link for more details of the story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080523/us_nm/petfood_settlement_dc_2
Israeli jails are using a custom-built computer program to interpret the barks of guard dogs and distinguish warnings of a breakout from everyday woofs. Barks are collected through microphones which then sort and grade them. Noam Tavor, head of the Israel Prisons Service canine unit: "It relays only the barks that are significant in terms of security — barks that reveal stress or aggression in the dog." Bio-Sense, a high-tech company headquartered near Tel Aviv, created the system.
