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The Truth About Anesthesia Free Dental\\n
Your local pet store may offer an Anesthesia Free Dental Cleaning. This is NOT an alternative to teeth cleaning. Doc Halligan says a real cleaning will help your pet avoid serious trouble down the line with infection of vital organs.\\n
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Movies Impacting Breed Popularity\\n
After analyzing a number of movies released between 1927 and 2004 featuring dogs and evaluating AKC\\xa0registration trends, researchers confirmed that movies definitely have an impact on breed popularity. "Lassie Come Home"\\xa0was associated with a 40% increase in Collie registrations. After the remake of "101 Dalmatians," in 1996\\xa0animal shelters reported a 35% increase in the number of Dalmatians surrendered.\\n
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NFL Player Locks Himself In Hot Car\\n
New Orleans Saints\'\\xa0Tyrann Mathieu\'s video for PETA is still heavily circulating online. If you haven\'t seen it, Mathieu is the NFL player who locked himself in a car to demonstrate the danger that dogs endure when they\'re locked inside a car on a hot summer day. After just a few minutes in the heat, Mathieu starts to breathe and sweat heavily.\\n
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Can Dogs Be Autistic?\\n
Bull terriers who compulsively chase their tails may be autistic, at least that\'s what Dr. Nicholas Dodman, Director of the Behavior Clinic at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, believes. He studied the subject for years and now says that like autistic people, such tail-chasing Bull terriers may be socially maladapted, unpredictably aggressive toward others and/or may stare into space for no apparent reason. Dodman\'s study is the first to propose that autism may occur in dogs.\\n
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Trump Your Cat\\n
Throughout the course of his time in public life, everyone has been wondering about Donald Trump\'s hair - or lack of it. \\xa0Is it a comb-over? Is it a toupee? And with his announcement that he\'s running for President again, there\'s a reemerging social media trend called\\xa0#trumpyourcat. Here\'s how it works: \\xa0First, you gather up all of the lint and loose pet hair in your house then you put it on your cat\'s head \\u2026 then take a picture of your cat and post.\\n
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