Cochise the dog, was accompanying his owner Paulie at his uncle George’s funeral in Auckland. Unfortunately, during the service, one of the children unclipped his lead. After getting curious and slipping on the green matting Cochise fell into the grave and barked while the priest was giving his eulogy, In a remarkable video, Cochise can Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Pets’
Teacher disapproves of dog’s name
Thursday, July 14th, 2022A mum was taken to task by her pre-school’s teacher because of their puppy’s name. But it was all a misunderstanding and partly down to her child’s inability to pronounce his ‘T’s. Read more
Can owning a dog make you a better Catholic? Mine did
Thursday, June 15th, 2017It started out with an inside joke. My spouse and I, with our advanced education in theology and religious studies, discovered that if you replaced “God” with “Dog” in a lot of Bible verses, they became startlingly apt commentary on our lives with our own newly adopted dog. Strangely, the more we found ourselves searching Read more
Millennials are picking pets over people
Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
Young Americans are less likely to be homeowners, car owners or parents than their predecessors, but they do lead in one category: Pets. Three-fourths of Americans in their 30s have dogs, while 51 percent have cats, according to a survey released by research firm Mintel. That compares to 50 percent of the overall population with dogs, and Read more
Pope: You can’t love your pet and be indifferent to poor
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016People in need deserve more love from us than our pets do, Pope Francis has said. In off-the-cuff remarks on Saturday at St Peter’s Square, he said: “How often do we see people greatly attached to cats, to dogs”, but fail to “help their neighbour, their neighbour who is in need . . . This Read more