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Pets Teach Kids Responsibility

By Michele C. Hollow of Pet News and Views

Someone, who I was close to, called me up to say that she wanted to get rid of her daughter’s rabbit. Her nine-year old child was no longer interested in caring for the rabbit because she got a cat, and she liked the new pet better.

This person knows that I write about pets and wildlife and wanted to know if I knew of a place where they could unload the pet. I told her that replacing one pet for another is a bad lesson to teach a child, and that my site, Pet News and Views doesn’t list adoptable pets. My site covers animal welfare and pet care.

All Animals Need Our Love

When I was 13, I took zoology classes at the Bronx Zoological Society. I grew up in the Bronx, and went to the zoo every Saturday to learn about animals. In the summer, when I graduated from the program, I had a choice to either volunteer at the Bronx Zoo or the Central Park Zoo.

Wordless Wednesday: The Others

 
Tim and Tom the Horses

Bunny Jean Cook

 
Snotface

Suerto

Love Wordless Wednesday because you get to post pictures of your pets? Well it is now 100 times better! Each week BlogPaws is going to create a link up for the community for you to add a link directly to your Wordless Wednesday Post. That way we can all share and enjoy each others pets.

The rules are super simple:

* Show us your pets!

* Leave a link directly to your Wordless Wednesday Post

* Visit other blogs and say hello (don't forget! This is the part that is the most fun!)

* Don't forget to leave a comment to let everyone know you stopped by for a visit.

* Share the link up with your readers so they can join the community and link up as well.

You can grab the code and place it on your blog or you can refer your readers right back to the Wordless Wednesday post of the week. We need your pictures! If you would like your pets picture featured as our Wordless Wednesday picture of the week all you need to do is join the the BlogPaws Community Center and any picture you post there has a chance of making it to Wordless Wednesday. You can post as many pictures as you want over there but if you want to get my attention with it because you think it is super special and I absolutely need to use it feel free to post it on my profile wall. Though it doesn't guarantee if or when the picture will be used.

 

PS. Don't forget today is the start of the World Wide Rummage Sale with Be the Change for Pets. for more information please visit http://www.blogpawsbethechange.com/rummage-sale-listings.html

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Rabbits are pets, too

And, just as we don't recommend giving pets at other holidays, we don't recommend adopting a bunny just because it's Easter.

Check out this video on the Humane Society of the U.S. website about adopting a bunny. There is also great content on how to care for a bunny, in case you've already adopted one.

All Things Dog Blog to Sponsor Easter Rabbit Adoptathon Blog Hop

By Guest Blogger Carrie Boyko

Please welcome Robby, the All Things Dog Blog family rabbit. He’s our spokesmodel for this Easter Adoptathon. We are excited to host you at our site for another fun day of photo blog hopping.

We hope you’ll enjoy helping us find new furever homes for some of Robby’s homeless bunny cousins during this particularly busy bunny-adoption season. Our task—get the word out about adoptable rabbits through Petfinder. Here’s how:

Who:           All bloggers

What:          Share adoptable rabbits from Petfinder’s site, highlighting info you feel may be helpful in getting them a second look.

Where:        http://www.AllThingsDogBlog.com

When:         Saturday, April 16, 2011 (starting at 12:00 AM and ending at midnight Saturday night)

Why:           To help rabbits find furever families

How:           Through the http://www.Petfinder.com adoptable pet search function

Right-handed or Left-handed? What is your pet?

The research scientists call it "lateralisation"... being right-handed or left-handed, that is. Just for the record, I'm left-handed. All the best folks are, like Alexander the Great and Winston Churchill and Carol Burnett and Whoopi Goldberg, to name just a few. A lot of great people are right-handed too, I guess.

Anyway, turns out that our pets (even goldfish, if you can believe that) tend to be right-or-left- handed. The article I was reading here, says, "In cats, scientists have concluded that females tend to favour their right paw when trying to extract a treat from a jar, with toms favorur their left. The same gender divide applies in dogs."

Fish, they say, are "right" or "left" eyed, as opposed to "finned." (is finned a word?)