http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/petsVisit rockymounttelegram.com for more news, weather and more!Wed, 25 Aug 2010 6:50:36 EDTen-usCopyright (C) 2009 rockymounttelegram.competsMIAMI — The man sitting with his dying wife in a Broward Vitas Hospice room at first told Jana Thomas and her Shetland sheepdog Pogo not to come in. But when Thomas put Pogo in bed beside the woman, she wrapped her arms around the dog, stroked his fur and began to grin. “She hasn’t been able to smile in two years,” her husband told Thomas.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/23055Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:06:00 EDTpetsMONTCLAIR, Calif. — Easter bunnies grow up and the novelty wears off. Come summer, people often just dump the bunnies. That’s why the number of rabbits in animal shelters across the country swells every summer. “We are in crisis” said Caroline Charland, founder of The Bunny Bunch, which has 350 rabbits who need homes.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/22521Tue, 10 Aug 2010 7:28:07 EDTpetsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military, conducting door-to-door searches and witnessing all sorts of noisy explosions.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/22505Tue, 10 Aug 2010 4:02:46 EDTpetsLOS ANGELES — What do you do when a rescue needs rescuing?http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/22113Thu, 29 Jul 2010 3:20:33 EDTpetsA woman’s pocketbook has many purposes, but Sarah Johnson’s served a new one Sunday morning: sanctuary. Johnson was cooking a late-night snack Sunday morning when oil and grease hit the hot eye on her stove top and ignited.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/22122Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:31:06 EDTpetsThe Edgecombe-Nash Humane Society received a phone call two years ago from a concerned neighbor saying that some animals had been deserted.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/21944Thu, 22 Jul 2010 7:38:15 EDTpetsNEW YORK — Brute, a German shepherd, lay anesthetized on an operating table, his furry chest under a plastic cover and his powerful paws taped immobile.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/21946Thu, 22 Jul 2010 7:37:46 EDTpetsFAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A North Carolina man faces a charge of felony animal cruelty after his wife said he tried to set fire to their pit bull because he was tired of caring for the puppy, according to authorities. Multiple media outlets reported the 9-week-old pit bull named Red was being treated at the Cumberland County Animal Shelter.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/21660Tue, 13 Jul 2010 7:13:08 EDTpetsLOS ANGELES — Princess Abby is missing one eye and a lot of fur. She’s got rabbit ears, a camel’s back and a kangaroo hop. She has mismatched legs, an inverted floppy front foot and a twisted tail.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/21459Wed, 07 Jul 2010 9:05:41 EDTpetsTom Strato, a 39-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, walked into his backyard pigeon coop on Staten Island, N.Y., and reached for a white racing homer tagged RBC-548.  A relative of the pigeon had brought him second place at a competition last year. He held it tight to prevent it from flying off, and the bird nuzzled his chest.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/21454Wed, 07 Jul 2010 9:05:00 EDT