Finding Free Dog Care

Article by Floyd P. Dietz

Dogs can be very expensive. When you first get a dog, you typically have to pay for it, either through a breeder or a pet store. Then you have to take it to the vet to get its initial shots. Then you have to buy food, treats, toys, and even bedding, depending on how much you want to spoil your dog. Then, if the dog gets sick, you have to take it to the vet.

You still have to take it to the vet regularly to get vaccinated and then there’s training costs, etc. Pets are so expensive, they’re almost like having actual children. That’s why it always pays, literally, to know of someplace you can take your dog that offers free dog care. Free? Is that a typo? No, you can actually find free dog care if you know where to look.

The first place to go for free dog care is your local SPCA. There are many instances where they will spay or neuter your dog and even vaccinate your dog for free. Sometimes, you have to qualify for the free dog care, which means you’ll have to prove that you don’t actually make enough money to afford regular dog care.

These places, like your local SPCA, know that taking care of a dog can be very expensive and that’s why they want to help those families out by providing free dog care so that all dogs are taken care of. They actually care about your pet, as you do, and they want to see your dog as healthy as possible. That’s why they’ll often provide free dog health care for those families who can’t afford it.

Ask Your Vet

You may be wondering why you would ask your vet for free dog care. The words free and vet never go together, after all. However, just as in the case of the SPCA, your local vet’s office will usually know of places you can go to get free dog care if you can’t afford the vet’s fees. Vets also care about your dog and if you can’t take it there, they would rather you take it somewhere rather than not taking it for care at all.

And that’s just what some families do when they can’t afford dog care, they just leave the dog be. That usually results in sick or dead dogs. Don’t do that. Do everything you can to find free dog care if you can’t afford it so that your dog remains as healthy as possible.

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The Top 10 Most Famous Dogs (Part 2) Names Beginning with the Letters D to K

Article by Larry Truett

I’ve been compiling a list of famous dogs for my Pet Numerology website for some time now. I know which my favorites are, but I wondered which are the most famous overall. There are so many great famous dogs that I’m doing this in five or six groups, and then I’ll do a final round with the top dogs from those groups.

The most famous dogs (based on online chatter) with names starting with the letters D to K are:

10. Huckleberry Hound from the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons

9. Delgado the German Shepard from the movie “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”

8. Kipper from the Kipper series of books by Mick Inkpen

7. Friday from the movie “Hotel for Dogs”

6. Doug the chihuahua-pug mix from the Sarah Silverman show

5. Goofy from the classic Walt Disney cartoons

4. Gromit from the Wallace and Gromit animated short films

3. Dogbert from the Dilbert comic strip

2. Dug the talking dog from the Pixar Animated movie Up

…and the most famous dog on this list is…

1. Eddie the Jack Russell Terrier who was on the TV series Frasier

Dogs not ranking in the top 10 were Daisy from the “Blondie” comic strip, Damka the Soviet Space dog, Digby the Golden Retriever on the TV series “Pushing Daisies”, Earl from the “Mutts” comic strip, El Diablo from the movie “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, Elektra from the “Cathy” comic strip, Fido who was US President Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Flike the terrier from the movie “Umberto D.”, Fly the Border Collie from the movie “Babe”, Fuzz from the “Ziggy” comic strip, Gaspode from several of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, Goliath from the animated TV series “Davey and Goliath”, Grimm from “Mother Goose and Grimm” comic strip, Happy from the TV series “7th Heaven”, Hooch the French Mastiff from the movie “Turner and Hooch”, Howard Huge the Saint Bernard from the “Howard Huge” comic strip, Hubert the Bloodhound from the movie “Best in Show”, Isaboo who is Rachael Rae’s Pit Bull Terrier, K9 the robotoic dog from the TV series “Dr. Who”, and Krasavka the Soviet Space dog.

So a nice mix of dogs from movies (Dug, Gromit, Friday, Delgado), television (Eddie, Doug), books(Kipper), cartoons (Goofy, Huckleberry Hound) and comic strips (Dogbert).

Not surprisingly, all of the top ten dogs are characters and not real life dogs. Too bad those brave Soviet Space dogs aren’t better know, so I’ll mention their names one more time: Damka and Krasavka.

I compiled this list by searching for the dog names listed on a number of search engines and ranking them by the number of web pages, discussion forums, photos, videos, etc that are available online.

Check out my complete list of Famous Dogs at http://www.PetNum.com.

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