Saturday, August 15, 2009
Contact: Don Hanson
Green Acres Kennel Shop
945-6841
[Bangor]- For the eighth year in a row, Green Acres Kennel Shop has been voted the Bangor Regions Best Kennel in a survey conducted by Market Surveys of America. They were also voted the Bangor Regions Best Pet Store for the third consecutive year.
Hurricane Katrina was a tragedy of epic proportions. Tom McPhee’s An America Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever is the multi-award winning documentary chronicling what happened during Hurricane Katrina when pet guardians were forced to evacuate without their pets. The film follows the pets, vets, guardians, officials, rescuers, and adopters of animals as they try to remedy the situation, revealing that not everyone had the same goal of saving animals. Trailers are available at www.anamericanopera.com.
The Rescue Party Tour will be in Belfast at the Colonial Theater on August 2nd 2009. Doors open at 6:15 PM. A $25 VIP ticket comes with a signed poster, meet and greet with the filmmaker, and $10 will go back to local animal charities. A Q&A with the filmmaker Tom McPhee will follow the screening of An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever!
” This film is both heartbreaking and inspiring… Perhaps the biggest legacy this film will leave is the need to make a difference it imparts to those who view it.” FilmGuru.net
More information and tickets are available at www.rescuepartytour.com
An article published on ScienceDaily on 18FEB09 entitled If You’re Aggressive, Your Dog Will Be Too, Says Veterinary Study describes a study by veterinarians at the University of Pennsylvania. This study, published in Applied Animal Behavior Science demonstrated that when aggressive pets are trained with confrontational or aversive methods, they become more aggressive. Conversely the use of non-aversive or neutral training methods caused very few aggressive responses. You can read the complete ScienceDaily article at this link: http://tinyurl.com/cmwuln
An article posted yesterday on sciencedaily.com, reports that a dog guardian’s perception of their dog “looking guilty” is dependent on the guardian’s behavior and does not indicate the dog “feeling guilty.” The article is a summary of an article entitled Disambiguating the ‘guilty look’;: Salient prompts to a familiar dog behaviour appearing in Behavioural Processes. You can read the entire sciencedaily.com article by clicking here.
