Today's VPI Spotlight
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Jun
1
Call it a serious case of something that got the cat’s tongue.
“It was on Memorial Day when our Siamese cat Scooter went from happily scampering around to suddenly foaming at the mouth and violently shaking her head,” described Margaret Stedt ...
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Jun
1
Pets have one of two reactions to a noisy appliance: There are those that ignore it and those that react as though it’s a mortal enemy. Barbara Abell’s 2-year-old West Highland white terrier Darci falls into the latter camp. “Darci has always snapped ...
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May
1
Tortoises aren’t the type of pet that offer their owners much in the way of surprises. For the most part, tortoises spend their days crawling slowly, eating, crawling slowly, sleeping, and crawling slowly. Emergency trips to the veterinarian don’t happ...
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Apr
1
Less than two minutes into his first cattle herding practice, Ranger the border collie found himself, literally, between a cow and a hard place.
“He charged down there like his usual maniac self and ran into the cow’s back legs at full speed,” ...
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Apr
1
Robert Coe and his wife Sandra of Santee, Calif., thought they had seen the last of the bees buzzing around their home after exterminators sprayed a hive in their yard. That is until later that night when Sandra noticed the family’s 1-year-old Labrador r...
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Mar
1
Michelle and Don Juen of Maplewood, Minn., know from experience to keep edibles out of reach of their 4-year-old Labrador retriever Rock. When he was a puppy, Rock devoured a chicken carcass he had found in the trash. Then there was the time he gobbled up Don...
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Feb
1
Dog’s best friend certainly isn’t the southwest-dwelling, pig-resembling, short-tusked javelina, as Arizona pet owners Rosalind Bark and Gregory Hodgins found out the hard way.
“My husband and our two German shorthaired pointers were hik...
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Feb
1
Pet owners visiting the beach for a day of fun and sun can anticipate the occasional safety hazard: holes in the sand, sharp pieces of driftwood or jagged shells, trash, etc. Unfortunately, after a recent experience with their 2-year-old Westie...
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Jan
1
Sometimes you get the stick, and sometimes the stick gets you. That’s what Kirsten Myers of Menlo Park, Calif., learned late last year during a game of fetch with her 6-year-old Labrador retriever Phoenix.
“It was a freak incident,” sa...
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Dec
1
Put pets and small children under one roof and the question becomes when, not if, someone is going to eat something they shouldn’t. In Jaime Springer’s case, that someone was Roscoe, a 3-year-old standard poodle who ingested two plastic baby bottles and a wet diaper.
“W...
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Dec
1
When Jacquelin and Lance Throneberry moved to Australia last year on a two-year business assignment, the couple feared their Jack Russell terriers might have violent encounters with some of the region’s poisonous snakes and cane toads....
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Oct
1
Pal, the 3-year-old Vizsla, loves to roam the many acres of undeveloped land next to his home. The sporting dog tracks and hunts anything that moves: small animals, insects and, unfortunately, golf carts.
“He loves to cut around our golf cart tracking the different scents,” sai...
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