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After searching the web, I could find nothing about whether Kate or William already have -- or will have -- pets after they're married.
But finally, today, I struck gold. Sort of. Let's just say this is the closest we'll get to a pets angle for the wedding story that's dominating so much of the news this week.
And we do like to stay current here at South Bay pets. Our motto: If you scrape and look hard enough, there is always a pet tie-in that can be found to nearly every big news story.
Here's a giant corgi wedding cake created by award-winning cake designer Michelle Wibowo. She also set a Guiness World Record for the largest dog-friendly cake. It's nearly 6 feet long and 4 feet high, weighing 150 pounds.
So there you go. A pets angle to the royal wedding.
And as an aside, Dogster reports that Kate/Catherine is rising in the ranks of popular pet names.Apparently a customer slipped on some, uh, dog poop in a Petsmart store in Newport News,
Virginia, in January 2009. Petsmart said this week that the store has reached a settlement with the victim who filed a $1 million negligence lawsuit. The victim, Robbert Holloway, said he "badly injured his back, struck his head and knocked out four teeth when he slipped on dog poop."
Go figure.
Ellie, a Labrador retriever in Santee, CA, has been named the 2010 VPI Hambone Award winner.
The contest is sponsored by the Veterinary Pet Insurance company and takes nominations
from the claims handled throughout the year.
Ellie's owners, Robert and Sandra Coe, had brought in an exterminator to spray a bee hive in their yard.
Later that night, the family's 1-year-old dog, Ellie, just wasn't acting like herself.
She began vomiting -- hundreds of dead bees.
Ellie had somehow found and eaten the bee hive after the exterminators had left.
The emergency vet on duty that night examined her and gave her a dose of anti-nausea medication, keeping her for observation. It was determined she not only hadn't been stung, but the pesticide did not pose a risk of toxicity.
Good job Ellie.
What a dog.
Ellie was chosen by popular vote on the company's website. Go to VPIHamboneAward.com for more information about the award.
If you're like me, you have a lot of dog-owning "friends" on Facebook.
These pictures were linked to by a "friend of a friend" and aren't exactly from the South Bay -- they live with their owner Jacki and family (w/cats) in Plainfield, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.
But the pictures were so silly I asked if I could use them on the blog.
Stella is a Bull Terrier/pit bull mix and Fiona is the Boston terrier. You can tell what the pecking order is around their house.
From owner Jacki: "Stella is at the bottom of the totem pole in a house with four cats and two dogs. She is clearly a scary, vicious pit bull and I'm waiting for her to maul all of us any day now.
"Stella is a rescue dog that was taken by animal control from a nasty, abusive home as a puppy. She has flourished and is a wonderful success story and 'bully breed' advocate."
Stella even defers to Monster, the cat:
Poor Stella.
I may have posted these guys before. I've seen them around the net. But you can't get enough of Roscoe and Suryia
(And please refrain from making jokes about how this looks like me and my dog)
We posted earlier about how Iggy the cat was rather impressed by the new iPad.
Chloe the Corgi? Not so much.
A miniature stallion named Einstein was born in New Hampshire on Friday, weighing in at just 6 pounds and measuring 14 inches tall.
Does anyone know how big these guys get when they're full grown?
From this webside for the American Miniature Horse Association, it appears they grow to be about the size of a medium-sized dog?
The webiste says they're the "horse for everybody."
It's spring, and a cat is in bloom in a flower pot on the porch of a house in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Sun, Marshall Gorby)
Read the caption carefully
About the Bloggers
Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
E-mail Donna at donna.littlejohn@dailybreeze.com.
Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.
E-mail Josh at josh.grossberg@dailybreeze.com.