Washington Post Blog Blasts Shelter Dogs
Last week, the Washington Post posted a blog entitled, “Why I’d Never Adopt A Shelter Dog Again.” While we posted a link to the blog on our Facebook page when we saw it, we thought the blog deserved more discussion. The author maintains that adopting dogs at a shelter is a “crap shoot” and you…
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Dog Discrimination in Ireland
Earlier this summer we took a trip to Ireland. Sure we saw Virginia’s family farm and castle (seriously there was once a clan castle — 600 years ago), but we also visited several lodging facilities (based on what we saw there’s room for a Pet Camp Ireland location), played with several Irish Wolfhounds, and saw this amazing…
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Moving with Cats
By Leeann Berry, Cat Safari Ranger Over the last few months I have had to move a couple of times, once with one cat and just recently with two. The specific circumstances are complicated and boring to say the least, so I will skip over why it has happened this way. However, I have gleaned…
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Tuft’s Vet School Claims to Bust Myths of Natural Remedies
San Francisco is the land of the Myth Busters – in fact it’s filmed pretty close to the Main Campground – so we were psyched to see that Tuft’s Veterinary School has gotten into some myth busting of their own. In June’s Your Dog newsletter, Tuft’s busts 7 myths about natural remedies that are touted as being…
Read MoreTrying to Find a Pit Bull a New Home
For the last several months, San Francisco’s Pet Camp has been taking care of Romeo. Romeo is a pit bull who should not be here – not because he’s a bad dog and not because he isn’t having fun at Pet Camp. He shouldn’t be here relying on dog boarding services because he needs a…
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Why Are San Francisco Police Officers Killing Dogs?
As shocking as this question is, that’s exactly what was asked at last week’s meeting of San Francisco’s Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. In the first 4 months of 2014 San Francisco police officers shot 3 dogs – all pit bull mixes, and all of whom died as a result of their injuries. For over…
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