Dogs Sniffing ut Health Problems
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- Dogs Sniffing ut Health Problems
- Cupertino City Council to hear update on off-leash dog park strategies
- Connecting with dogs and kids through yoga
- Wanted: volunteer detectives only dogs need apply
- Work like a dog? K-9 officers howl they’re not paid enough
Dogs Sniffing ut Health Problems
New York Times
Catching up on my weekend Web reading I came across an interesting video from National Geographic about dogs who sniff out cancer and health problems associated with diabetes. ne of the dogs featured a collie named Tinker began whining and barking when his owner who has diabetes experienced dangerous drops in blood sugar. Although Tinker wasn’t trained at first his reactions to the hypoglycemic attacks led to further training as a qualified “hypo alert” dog. The video also features the work of the British research center.
Cupertino City Council to hear update on off-leash dog park strategies
San Jose Mercury News
Since April the group has been meeting for weekly early morning debate and discussion about finding a way to get dogs leash-free exercise. The council recently budgeted funds for an off-leash or fenced dog area in the current fiscal year and wants the volunteer group to identify possible locations and a strategy for allowing off-leash time in Cupertino. ne preliminary proposal suggests a fenced trial period in one park and an unfenced off-leash trial in three other parks during set hours. The proposal also suggests conducting numerous surveys and reporting methods to track progress and neighborhood opinion during and after the trial period.
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Connecting with dogs and kids through yoga
Houston Chronicle
There’s the popular hatha yoga that’s sweeping gyms across the nation; bikram yoga in which one contorts his or her body into sweaty poses in a heated room; and power yoga a fast-paced workout. These types of yoga emphasize poses — and doing them correctly. Two of the newest forms of yoga in Houston reach out to entirely different audiences: dogs and babies. Yoga Journal spokeswoman Dayna Macy said that while babies and dogs definitely don’t need yoga these nontraditional forms of the exercise help broaden yoga’s popularity. “There’s no end to how one can approach yoga” she said. “It can be as lighthearted or serious as you like. Is it different from going to India and doing yoga for 30 years and meditating? Yes.
Wanted: volunteer detectives only dogs need apply
Reuters
These law enforcement volunteers are also great at sitting and fetching. The German shepherd and Labrador are graduates of a boot camp for canines run by the Royal Thai Police to help pet owners with basic obedience training but to also create a network of doggy detectives to boost its own ranks. “If the dogs can work they can help society and its owners’ family. This is what we consider our success” said police dog handler Lieutenant Colonel Chatchai Setthipanlan. “When dogs pass the elementary level we train them on discipline then after they finish the advanced level we specify a particular field that we use for crime suppression tasks. The force has only 33 professional police dogs and this is the second year the volunteer programme has been conducted. Last year only 20 dogs out of 300 recruits passed the three-month training course and were appointed as volunteer police dogs which in case of an emergency will be called upon to work in the area they live in.
Work like a dog? K-9 officers howl they’re not paid enough
Houston Chronicle
About 50 K-9 officers claim that over the past few years the Houston Police Department should have paid them more for time they spent at home looking after their dogs. That lawsuit ticks us off. HPD already pays its K-9 officers $150 more per month than regular cops — money that the city argues should cover the dogs’ care after hours. The officers are allowed to wash and exercise their dogs during regular working hours. And they’re paid overtime when they respond to after-hours emergency calls. Bob Armbruster the Houston Police fficers Union attorney representing the K-9 officers told the Chronicle that off the clock the officers spend an extra hour on dog care each day. But how you wonder do the cops lavish so much time on dogs that are exercised and bathed at work?The lawsuit counts “transporting” the dogs as work that deserves to be reimbursed — an argument that federal courts have accepted in the past.
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