California is still in the plans eventually

Tonight my mom mentioned abt going to ny for a visit.it reminded me that life is about generally for me taking chances and it was by chance that i ran away from tungland and i don’t regret once but i am glad that i did and i am very thankful my now ex velle has helped me with the help of some of his friends.i am grateful for all that they did.however this ex also moved on to another girl but at least he had the guts to tell me about it before finding out through someone else.most men don’t have that in them to tell the truth straight up.my second ex fiance certainly didn’t!But,i have finally set up an ebay selling account for books and i plan on using ebay to sell books with 10% of the income going to word of life each way by check(written by my parents)and eventually i hope to take a cooking class and eventually do acting even part time down in hawaii to help me get a job in california.if i do hunt for a man he must be local meaning on the island of oahu so my pup can approve or disapprove him.Her decision will be the final draw if I deal with a certain man or any man.I plan on taking her with me and continuing to take her to a VCA animal hospital in california.as for children right now it’s not in my interest but i will deal with children one way or another even if it’s sponsoring a child.regardless my plans are still up in the air for the time to move but hope to be out of hi before my parents get senile in their 80’s. i chose ca because it’s closer to my dad and i didn’t feel like it’s worth the pain of traveling from somewhere on the east coast to hi knowing if my dad only had 48 hours god forbid i might not make it back in time.that alone would be a burden on my heart forever.

HAPPY Act

Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act –

Allow a Deduction for Pet Care Expenses

Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Care2
What would life be without companion animals? During these difficult economic times however, more and more people find that the financial cost of giving pets the care they deserve becomes a burden, or worse, unbearable.

The Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act (H.R. 3501) was just introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The Act would amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual to deduct up to $3,500 for “qualified pet care expenses” – including veterinary care – for a legally owned, domesticated, live animal.

As you, your family members or your neighbors may be trimming budgets to make ends meet, innocent animals should not have to go without adequate care! Even a small tax deduction for responsible pet owners will go a long way to meet the needs of companion animals, ease the tax burden of those who own a pet (63 percent of all households) and may even encourage more people to provide loving homes to the countless animals filling America’s shelters.

Link:http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/995438286?z00m=19783021

Sign!I did!My comment:Thank You!Just what america needs to keep vet bills down!

Father of newborn dragged into woods by dog speaks out

A story out of Jessamine County, Ky. is making national headlines after a family pet dragged a newborn baby from his crib into a wooded area behind the family’s home.

The baby, just 5-days-old, is in critical condition at the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington.

The dog in question, Dakota, is a Native American Indian dog and is part wolf.  In fact, Dakota’s grandparents were about 90 percent wolf, but her owners said she’s a mild mannered dog who didn’t intend to do any harm.

The parents of Alexander James “AJ” Smith said Dakota was likely playing a game when she dragged the baby from his crib and into the woods behind their home.

The Smith’s said AJ was born three weeks early and they still had a list of things to do and buy to make their home baby-proof, including a gate for their three dogs.

Michael Smith, AJ’s father, said he was getting ready to make a run to the store pick up the baby-proofing items when they realized the dog had taken the baby.

“AJ’s eyes were open, his mouth was bleeding, you could tell he had internal injuries.  He looked better than I thought he would.  I scooped him up, the EMT took over from there,” Michael Smith said.

Dakota is at the Jessamine County animal shelter and they are hoping someone will adopt her and her sister, Nikita, or she will have to be put down.

Michael Smith said the dog will not be allowed back into the family’s home.

Parents of newborn carried from crib by family dog will not face charges

The parents of a Kentucky newborn, who was carried from his crib by the family’s hybrid wolf-dog last month, will not face any charges.  And now they want the dog back.

A.J. Smith of Jessamine County was just days old, when he suffered collapsed lungs, broken bones and multiple fractures.

On Saturday, the Lexington-Herald Leader reported the family now wants the dog, Dakota, to return home.

Attorneys said a court order will be required to make that happen.  Dakota has been staying at a shelter.

A dancing dog!

No treats from Obama

Wedding bells with the ‘boys’ animal companions Waikele couple’s 2 dogs share in their special day, sans tux

Pets are important members of the family, and lately more couples are including them in wedding ceremonies.

Gina Sales, an event planner at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, got married in February and included her two dogs, Gido and Mochi, in the ceremony and reception at the Hilton.

“Gido and Mochi are both an integral part of our family, so it was only natural to incorporate the both of them into our wedding. We had always known that our special day was going to be shared with our ‘boys,’ ” said Sales.

Sales said that there were no objections to having her dogs take part in the wedding festivities. “Our minister even offered guidance on how Gido and Mochi would be introduced and seated during our wedding ceremony.”

The main concern for Sales and her husband, Lando, was their dogs’ safety and comfort. The Waikele couple didn’t want to impose on family or friends and wanted everyone to enjoy themselves. They turned to the Hawaii Pet Nanny for help.

“Thanks to Hawaii Pet Nanny, our special day with our boys went perfectly without any glitches. We can’t thank Iris of Hawaii Pet Nanny enough. She played a very big part in making our day special, because we knew that Gido and Mochi were in good hands,” said Sales.

The doggy attire? Sales couldn’t find tuxes to match the color scheme, so she opted to dress them in matching bow ties.

Gido and Mochi, 12 months and 4 months old at wedding time, were well-behaved. Naturally, their parents were extremely proud to show them off to all their guests.

“Having our ‘boys’ around us on our special day actually helped us relax even more,” said Sales.

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Dogs can detect cancer by the smell of breath

They’ve got funny names for cancer researchers, like Captain Jennings and Tibbs. They’re also a little furry and have a tendency to lick their white-coated colleagues. But these canine lab assistants may one day make it possible to detect cancers early enough to keep them from becoming fatal.

The Pine Street Foundation, a cancer education and research center in San Anselmo, Calif., is hoping one day to train these dogs to sniff out, literally, early-stage ovarian cancer—a disease that kills two-thirds of the 22,000 women diagnosed with it each year, according to the American Cancer Society, because it is often caught only after it has spread beyond the ovaries.

In 2006 the foundation published a study showing it was possible to train dogs to identify, based on breath samples,which patients had lung and breast cancer.

Now the organization is recruiting ovarian cancer patients and dogs for a new study.

Nicholas Broffman, executive director of the foundation, says the dogs are helping to answer an important question that may one day lead to earlier detection of diseases like ovarian and pancreatic cancers, which are often caught only in very late stages: Does cancer have a smell?

Does cancer have a smell?
“Is there something about the breath of people with cancer that is different in people who do not have cancer?” Broffman wants to know. “Our goal is to identify what collection of molecules in the breath are unique to ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, and lung cancer, and develop a test to find those.” Using animals to detect disease is not new, and this line of research is not as out there as it may sound.

Diabetes is detectable, too
Dogs, which have been used for decades as aides for the blind or hearing impaired and as companions for the infirm, have also taken new roles in alerting epileptics to impending seizures and diabetics to low blood sugar.

A few dozen miles east of the Pine Street Foundation, in Concord, Calif., Mark Ruefenacht, who runs dogs4diabetics says the link between a dog’s smell and its ability to detect hypoglycemia is well-established. He’s been training dogs for 10 years to pick up the scent of diabetics on the verge of hypoglycemia.

“We don’t know the complete science here, but when blood sugar starts to drop, the body starts to kick out chemicals in the breath, sweat, whatever,” Ruefenacht says. “Those chemicals indicate a change. The dogs can pick that up. Low blood sugar has a smell; high blood sugar has a smell; even the rapid change in blood sugar has a smell.”

In diabetics, the presence of  ketones—substances produced by the body as it breaks down fat for energy—can be smelled in urine and on the breath when blood sugars are high. Dogs, Ruefenacht says, can pick up on other smells that humans can’t when glucose levels drop.

These chemical scents are what scientists at the Pine Street Foundation and the University of Maine, which is helping in the ovarian cancer study, hope to identify for ovarian cancer. The research is still in its infancy, but researchers are clearly excited about the potential—and they’re not alone.

In a case study published in The Irish Journal of Medical Sciences last year, researchers claimed that a family pet had recognized hypoglycemia in an elderly man who had never been diagnosed with diabetes.

“Dogs have a sense of smell far superior to humans,” says study coauthor Mortimer O’Connor, MD, of Victory University Hospital in Cork, Ireland. Smell is just one way dogs may detect a condition change like low blood sugar, O’Connor says; he also suggests that they may taste a difference on a person’s skin or sense changes in the electric or magnetic energy the body emits.

Looking toward the future
Scientists may be years from identifying the specific biomarkers that distinguish the breath of people with cancer from those without, cautions Broffman—and years more from being able to distinguish one type of cancer, such as ovarian, from another.

Even further in the future: Developing a mechanical device that can sense those biomarkers when someone breathes into it. “It would be great to have a Breathalyzer-type machine that could do this,” Broffman says. “Our goal is to identify what collection of molecules are unique to ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, or lung cancer, and can we develop a test to find those. Scientifically, this is very difficult.”

That’s because this wouldn’t require just detecting one molecule—which is difficult enough—but a range of molecules, Broffman says. “Together, these molecules smell like cancer. When we smell a rose, we’re not smelling individual rose molecules, but our brain puts all the molecules together and says, ‘OK, that’s a rose.’”

For a computer to accomplish that level of pattern recognition, Broffman says, the patterns have to be extremely well-defined. “This is the challenge, scientifically. This may why we never replace dogs. Maybe dogs will be always be better at this.”

Dogs can detect scents as small as one part per trillion—or the equivalent of a drop of ink in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, Broffman says. “No scent detection device on the planet that can come close to that.”

So for early detection of such diseases, scientists’ best bet for now has four legs and a tail—and may one day be known as the cancer patient’s best friend.

Juvenile jail for NYC girl who put kitten in oven

A 14-year-old has pleaded guilty to burglary and animal cruelty for killing a kitten in a 500-degree oven.

The New York City Law Department says the girl will spend 18 months in juvenile jail for the May 6 death of the kitten, named Tiger Lily.

Authorities say she and a friend ransacked a Bronx apartment before putting the animal in the oven, where it cried and scratched before dying.

The friend, 17-year-old Cheyenne Cherry, pleaded guilty last month to animal cruelty and attempted burglary. She is expected to get a year in jail when she’s sentenced on Sept. 2.