Menu

Pets On Board
Pets On Board Helping Animals Online Since 1995!
20Dec

Protecting Your Pets Over The Holidays | PetsOnBoard.com

Categories: Pet News
Comments Off on Protecting Your Pets Over The Holidays | PetsOnBoard.com

Protecting Your Pets Over The Holidays NEW HAVEN , Conn. (WTNH) – In planning for this season’s holiday festivities, it is important to keep your pets in mind. While most of us welcome the sights, sounds and smells of the season, holidays can also be chaotic-especially for dogs. Holiday festivities can interrupt a dog’s routine and […]

Read more
Tags:
16Dec

Sausalito dog thought drowned in storm reunited with owner – Marin Independent Journal

Categories: Pet News
Comments Off on Sausalito dog thought drowned in storm reunited with owner – Marin Independent Journal
Pit reunite

In a near-miraculous recovery, a dog that was on a boat that sank in Richardson Bay during Thursday’s storm swam a mile to shore, walked to a church she had visited with her animal guardian and was reunited with him in an emotional meeting two days later. Daisy, a brown and white pit bull belonging […]

Read more
Tags:
15Dec

Getting a dog? A pet might improve your health. – The Washington Post

Categories: Pet News
Comments Off on Getting a dog? A pet might improve your health. – The Washington Post

By Christie Aschwanden December 15 at 12:08 PMWith final exams bearing down on them this month, nearly 1,000 students at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond turned out for “Paws for Stress” — a chance to pet and play with therapy dogs.Pets were once considered a leisure interest, one best kept at home. But there’s a […]

Read more
Tags:
15Dec

400-pound pig at home with the cops

Categories: Pet News petsonboard
Comments Off on 400-pound pig at home with the cops
pig

Wherefore art thou, Romeo? A 400-pound pig named after Juliet’s boyfriend decided to go for a Sunday stroll in Queens — startling a passerby who couldn’t believe her eyes and called police. Happily, it didn’t end in a Shakespearean tragedy. Cops from the 113th Precinct, who have known Romeo for years, just watched him waddle […]

Read more
Tags:
14Dec

9 lost pets who miraculously found a way home

Categories: News Pet News
Comments Off on 9 lost pets who miraculously found a way home

The search for a beloved runaway pet is traumatizing, but not always hopeless. (Mashable.com) On rare occasions, lost pets thought to be gone forever have mysteriously found their ways home, sometimes years after they were first lost. SEE ALSO: 30 Instagram pets that colored our world in 2014 Hear the miraculous stories of long lost animals […]

Read more
Tags:
8Dec

The Top 20 Reasons Dogs Do Not Use Computers

Categories: Pet News
Comments Off on The Top 20 Reasons Dogs Do Not Use Computers

The Top 20 Reasons Dogs Do Not Use Computers 20. Can’t stick their heads out of Windows ’95. 19. Fetch command not available on all platforms. 18. Hard to read the monitor with your head cocked to one side. 17. Too difficult to “mark” every website they visit. 16. Can’t help attacking the screen when […]

Read more
Tags:
4Dec

How much should you spend to keep a pet alive? – Chicago Tribune

Categories: Pet News petsonboard
Comments Off on How much should you spend to keep a pet alive? – Chicago Tribune

C.K., a reader from Madison, Wis., writes that she loves her dog and cats, each of which has been “a source of great comfort and love” for her and her family. Now, however, her pets are growing old and she wonders how to decide when it’s time to “let them die in peace or put […]

Read more
Tags:
2Dec

Neglected, dying dog gets epic send-off

Categories: Pet News
1 Comment

 Boston terriers thrive on human companionship  and they deteriorate in the absence thereof, notes the Boston Terrier Club of America. This is apparently what happened to Butch, who wandered an Alabama neighborhood for two and a half years after being abandoned, AL.com reports. He ate garbage, was occasionally fed by people in the town on […]

Read more
Tags: