News Roundup

Here are the dog related news items I read this week:



-Dogs can be trained to sniff out cash and fake DVDs? I'll start working on training Mickey to smell for money next week...



-More pets are facing euthenasia or no treatment because their families purse strings are already tight with the current economy. I did the math for pet insurance, but it doesn't seem to be worth it since Mickey is still so young...



-We all have heard how owning a pet can be good for your health. Now for the bad news, pets cause 86,000 fall injuries a year in the USA. To be fair, this is 1% of all fall injuries and no one has died. (well, a cat did when its owner fell on it.) This is a really dumb article, it includes tips for not tripping on your pet and 'famous' people who have injured themselves (Dutch tennis star Kim Clijsters bruised her tailbone after falling over Diesel, her Great Dane, in 2006.) {ahem, how can you trip over a Great Dane? I hope it was laying down or Clijsters is ten feet tall}