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		<title>Five ways we pick pets names</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/05/five-ways-we-pick-pets-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I asked readers to share their pets&#8217; names. After reviewing your e-mails, I realized that a pet&#8217;s name can provide as much insight into a pet owner&#8217;s personality as it can about the pet himself. Here&#8217;s my take on the five ways we name our pets.
First, there are &#8220;human names,&#8221; like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xylitol and a major pet emergency</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/03/1431/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Tarin Goodnight, a student at Texas State University, ran to the store, she didn&#8217;t expect to come back home to a pet emergency. But during the short time she was away, her then 18-month-old Chihuahua, Carmen, had jumped onto her desk and eaten four pieces of nicotine gum, leaving the paper wrappers as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bella beats Max for six years in a row</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/bella-beats-max-for-six-years-in-a-row/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/bella-beats-max-for-six-years-in-a-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Max ruled the top spot in the list of the top 10 most popular dog names.
But Veterinary Pet Insurance crunched the numbers on its more than 475,000 insured pets to determine 2009&#8217;s most common pet names, and Bella beat out Max by more than 400 dogs.
Max may have slipped in the polls with dog lovers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping children cope with pet&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/helping-children-cope-with-pets-death/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/helping-children-cope-with-pets-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 7 years old, my little dog Pepper saw a cat across the street and ran out the open front door. Before I could get outside to catch him, he ran into the street and was hit by a car. I remember screaming and crying. I was overwhelmed by what I had just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for a way to use contraceptives with pets</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/searching-for-a-way-to-use-contraceptives-with-pets/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/searching-for-a-way-to-use-contraceptives-with-pets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February 2008, Texas A&#38;M announced the university would do a study on birth control for wild animals and eventually cats and dogs.  This would be a transformational event in the battle against animal population control. Unfortunately, in a recent conversation with Dwayne Kraemer at Texas A&#38;M, he said &#8220;preliminary studies were not panning out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a cat bites after petting</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/when-a-cat-bites-after-petting/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/when-a-cat-bites-after-petting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A readers says, &#8220;Sometimes when I pet my cat, he starts twitching his tail and then bites my hands. This is very distressing for me. I love him, but it really hurts me when he does this. Am I doing something wrong? How can I make him stop?&#8221;
This is actually a very common behavior. Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do some cats &#8220;knead&#8221; and some do not?</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/why-do-some-cats-knead-and-some-do-not/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/why-do-some-cats-knead-and-some-do-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kittens knead their paws on the belly of their mother to stimulate milk production. Because this action brings immediate rewards and comfort, it&#8217;s not unusual for cats to continue this behavior with their human loved ones as adults. When a cat kneads your belly, he feels emotionally secure and happy. In fact, the action is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you perform CPR on your Pet?</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2009/12/would-you-perform-cpr-on-your-pet/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2009/12/would-you-perform-cpr-on-your-pet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a medical emergency, would you perform CPR on your pet? Would you be willing to begin mouth-to-snout resuscitation — your mouth over his closed snout — to revive your dying dog or cat?
In a poll conducted by the Associated Press and Petside.com, 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cat to Dog / Cat to Cat Introductions</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2009/12/cat-to-dog-cat-to-cat-introductions/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2009/12/cat-to-dog-cat-to-cat-introductions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara recently wrote to me to tell me that her cat Oliver had passed away. She plans to open her home to a new kitten — maybe two — when enough time has passed. However, she has two Lhasa apsos already and was wondering how to integrate a new cat into a home with resident dogs.
When my feline, Miss Kitty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First H1N1 virus confirmed in a cat</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2009/11/first-h1n1-virus-confirmed-in-a-cat/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2009/11/first-h1n1-virus-confirmed-in-a-cat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine has confirmed the first known case of the H1N1 virus in a cat.  Up until now, the virus has only been found in humans, pigs, birds, and ferrets.
Apparently, the feline got sick after being exposed to several household members who had flu-like symptoms. The feline will recover. According to [...]]]></description>
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