PetPress.net contains News items, Press Releases and New Products relating to the Pet Industry. http://www.petpress.net/ en-us petpress.net petpress.net 2008 OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 0:11:21 CDT http://petpress.net/button.gif http://petpress.net/ A pet rabbit in Australia has been praised for saving its owners as their home burned. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9546 2008-07-24 St. Patrick may have driven the snakes from Ireland, but reptiles have scored one for their side across the sea in England. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9547 2008-07-24 Catherine Beard is fond of mud. Which is lucky really, as the Environment Waikato wetland ecologist spends a fair bit of time in the stuff. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9548 2008-07-24 A Department of Conservation programme transferring native lizards onto offshore islands has been suspended after salmonella was found among the reptiles. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9549 2008-07-24 A Bell County pastor was arraigned in Laurel County District Court on Monday for the alleged sale of venomous snakes. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9532 2008-07-23 NORTHAMPTON, Pa.—Bucks County animal control officer Craig Claycomb's duties go way beyond stray dogs and cats this week. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9533 2008-07-23 YEKATERINBURG, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - A two-meter (seven-foot) pet boa constrictor fell out of an apartment window in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg, giving locals a scare, a local animal protection charity said on Wednesday. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9534 2008-07-23 A CLOSE call for two Queensland crab fishermen in a river less than 500km from Brisbane has prompted a crocodile warning about the breeding season. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9535 2008-07-23 Law enforcement officers across Polk County said Tuesday that was their reaction to the heat-related death of a police dog in Mulberry, and each said it caused them to double-check their own policies and equipment to make sure it couldn't happen to t http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9536 2008-07-23 Barbara Raab is starting a prison dog training program because she knows one truth: A dog is man's best friend, even when he's a convict. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9537 2008-07-23 Many homeless people -- perhaps as many as 10% -- have pets. (The pets above are waiting with their owners, who are homeless, for veterinary care in Ventura County.) http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9538 2008-07-23 A year after billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley bequeathed $12 million to her dog, Trouble, thousands of California cats and canines may soon be in the money too -- though perhaps not so deep -- thanks to a measure signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schw http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9539 2008-07-23 The dog days of summer are upon us, and every year I think back to a day when I was shopping in my favorite kind of store- a thrift store, when a young woman came in and loudly called out, "Who owns the blue car out front with the dog in it?&quo http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9540 2008-07-23 As Texans eye the Gulf of Mexico for the next hurricane, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert said every family should have an evacuation plan that includes the family pet. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9541 2008-07-23 A recent British study has found that pets in the country are becoming obese because they are being fed with junk food diets. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9542 2008-07-23 Members of the Regina Fire Department rushed two cats and a dog out of a burning house Tuesday afternoon. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9543 2008-07-23 After almost two years of pressure from local citizens, university officials, animal welfare organizations and some student involvement, the UA is putting together the final steps to start a student-run group bent on combating pet abandonment. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9544 2008-07-23 When Kevin Siclari heard his Wayne County pet store was robbed overnight Tuesday, he figured he’d find the register empty. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9545 2008-07-23 It's 7 a.m. in the marsh, and like some sort of cigar-chomping swamp cowboy, biologist Lindsey Hord is about to reach for something that could cost him a few fingers -- or worse -- if he's not careful. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9519 2008-07-22 Creepy. Slimy. Poisonous. Ugly. These are only a few of the words that describe many people’s negative feelings toward snakes, lizards, toads, and other reptiles and amphibians. http://petpress.net/redirect.php?id=9520 2008-07-22 Search all of PetPress.net q http://petpress.net/search.php