For Dogs and their owners

Smoke from a 20,000 acre fire in Holly Shelter Game Land in Pender County, NC has covered most of Onslow County and parts of Pender and New Hanover Counties in a hazardous air quality zone  for days. The evening and early morning hours are when the highest particle concentrations have generally occurred.

Health officials from Onslow Memorial Hospital recommend people remain indoors in the air conditioning. Anyone with asthma or other respiratory problems are being instructed to stay indoors and drink plenty of water. If you have to go outside you should wear a mask to filter smoke particles.

Fine particles can penetrate deeply into the lungs and be absorbed into the bloodstream, causing or aggravating heart and lung diseases, according to the N.C. Division of Air Quality.

Of course your dog and other pets should be protected from inhaling area wildfire smoke with its fine particle levels. If you keep your dogs and cats outdoors, you should bring them inside as they are just as vulnerable to the health risks. Pets exposed to the smoke who exhibit stress symptoms such as coughing or having trouble breathing should be brought to a veterinarian.

State air quality experts are predicting unhealthy air quality, in Onslow, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir and Pender counties as well as Manteo and the northern Outer Banks.

Are you in the market for a fence for dogs?  If you own a dog, chances are you are having to find some means of containing your dog.  The old traditional method of safe and humane containment is the conventional wire or wooden fence.  Is this still the best way to keep your dogs at

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Nov 19,2010  Wilmington NC

After mistakenly euthanizing a dog that saved soldiers lives in Afghanistan and survived through explosions in the war savaged country, a county employee in Arizona has been fired.  The Pinal County animal control employee euthanized the female Shepard Monday, and was later placed immediately on administrative leave.

Target, the heroic Shepard mix was brought to the Phoenix area in August by Sergeant Terry Young, after he has finished his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Target potentially saved several lives when a suicide bomber was scared off by her inside Dand Patan, a military base near the Pakistan border.

According to an Associated Press report, Young said the dog was treated like royalty from then on at the military base. She had escaped from the family’s yard last Friday which didn’t have an electronic dog fence, and she didn’t have a tag or microchip so the dog ended up at the county pound.

Young found Target’s picture on an internet website Casa Grande county dog catchers use to assist owners in finding their lost dogs. When Young showed up at the dog pound to claim his dog on Monday, he learned she was dead.

Officials at the Pinal County animal control facility say the employee mistakenly took the dog out of its pen Monday morning and euthanized it. The employee’s name is being kept confidential because of numerous telephone death threats.

In a newspaper report in The Arizona Republic Young said “I just can’t believe that something like this would happen to such a good dog,” The report also said the soldier and his family will get Target’s cremated remains

Bolivia, NC – The Brunswick County Animal Services is currently distributing vouchers to pet owners in Brunswick County to cover the cost of spay or neuter of the pet owners companion dog or cat.

The voucher program is available to residents of Brunswick County and is based on the applicant’s income. Proof of residency, such as a piece of mail with their physical adress, a driver’s license for identification, and proof of income (paystub, recent tax return or medicaid card)  for the entire household is required at the time of application

The voucher program is designed to help pet owners who may not be able to afford to have their pets spayed or neutered. It is not intended for use on feral cats or dogs.

“We are very concerned with the growing population of unwanted pets in the county,” said Don Yousey, Health Director. “We are hoping that this program will help reduce that population.”

Vouchers are valid at nine (9) veterinarians within Brunswick County and only cover the cost of the surgery. Any additional charges are the sole responsibility of the persons presenting the vouchers for service. Additional charges may include an office visit fee and/or a rabies vaccination. Contact your veterinarian to see if there will be any additional charges

Vouchers are available Monday through Friday from 10am until 3:30 pm. The Brunswick County Animal Shelter is located on Highway 211 in Supply.

For further information concerning the free voucher program please call Brunswick County Animal Services at 754-8204 or 754-9261

ORDINANCE
Brunswick County Animal Services does not pick up dead animals at all. Contact the Department of Transportation (DOT) 910-754-6527

The Schreiber Family

When:   November 6, 2010
Where: Drifter’s Reef Motel, Carolina Beach
12:30pm

$10 entry fee (with partial proceeds donated to the New Hanover Humane Society) before Nov. 3rd and $15 after Nov. 3rd.  Cool prizes and food and beverages will be available from the Lazy Pirate Sports Bar and Grill which is also on the property.  Categories include:  Most Misbehaved, Ugliest, Dog/Owner Look Alike, Best Kisser, Best Trick.