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		<title>&#8220;Resident dogs&#8221; are usually the biters</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/11/resident-dogs-are-usually-the-biters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sensational world, headlines about dog bites and canine aggression tend to focus on certain breeds rather than the circumstances that create these behaviors.
If you really want to understand canine behavior, then you need to know there are two types of dogs living in the United State, according to the National Canine Research Council, [...]]]></description>
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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>Dogs don&#8217;t listen? Here&#8217;s why</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/dogs-dont-listen-heres-why/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/dogs-dont-listen-heres-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letters about &#8220;stubborn dogs&#8221; that don&#8217;t seem to listen flood my e-mail. Margie G. says, &#8220;Whenever we go for walks, I say my dog&#8217;s name, but she doesn&#8217;t turn her head to look at me.&#8221;
Gina says she must ask her dog to &#8220;sit&#8221; several times before her dog will even think about complying. &#8220;What am [...]]]></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>Why do dogs like squeaky things?</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/why-do-dogs-like-squeaky-things/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/02/why-do-dogs-like-squeaky-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your dog go crazy every time you bring home a squeaky toy. Does he grab it and shake his head back and forth as if he is trying to kill it. After the squeaker stops working, does he drops the toy and never touch it again.
Well, once upon a time, when dogs hunted and [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://petpundit.com/?p=1393</guid>
		<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>Can dogs watch TV?</title>
		<link>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/can-dogs-watch-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://petpundit.com/2010/01/can-dogs-watch-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy M. Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader says her mom&#8217;s dog Jack watches TV. &#8220;He actually follows objects as they move across the screen and loves animal shows and sports shows that my dad turns on,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Is this really possible?&#8221; 
Many people say their dogs watch TV and it seems they really are following some of the action on the [...]]]></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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