An Inspiring Blind Dog and a Seeing-Eye Human
The SPCA for Monterey County specializes in tugging heart strings. And its latest dog tale does it as well as any before it. According to the nonprofit's people—and verified by the picture above—Champ is a handsome yellow Labrador retriever. He's 10 years old, and also blind. That's where it gets ...
Gubernatorial Dog Hits Campaign Trail for Prop. 30
Lucky for Gov. Jerry Brown he's got a dog that's warmer and fuzzier than he is. Sutter, Brown's corgie, is hitting 30 Democratic party offices in California this week as part of a final push for Proposition 30, the governor's proposed tax increase to raise some $7 billion. If the ...
Local Pit Bull Proponents Set to Celebrate the Breed's Awareness Day
It seems there is no other breed of canine with a worse reputation than that of the American Pit Bull Terrier—pit bull proponents would argue there is no dog more misunderstood. The breed traces its early history back hundreds of years to a tribe of Greeks who recognized the dogs’ ...
Smartphone App Tracks Northern California Great Whites
Researchers at Stanford University have just turned your smartphone into a fairly sophisticated fish-finder, with the ability to pinpoint some very big fish. The app is called Shark Net and will give the general public access to data collected by remote buoys in Northern California’s coastal waters that keep track ...
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