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The next big thing: a mastiff

Feature | Pet Connection
2010-2-6

THERE'S a saying among ultra-rich men in northern China: you need a young beautiful wife, a Lamborghini, a villa with expansive grounds, a purebred horse and a Tibetan mastiff (zang'ao), the bigger and more ferocious...

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Fit, not fat for dogs

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-12-6

IT'S never an easy task to loose weight. And although a pet doesn't need to be as slim as their female master, they must be healthy, strong and vigorous. We must keep in mind that preventing obesity is the single...

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Former stray finds a loving home

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-11-8

DAIDAI, a six-month-old tabby cat with beautiful colors and markings, has large ears and a small head. Just like other kittens, Daidai is active, energetic and curious about everything. He likes to play and is also...

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Lab rats, mice, dogs, rabbits, monkeys - do they have rights?

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-11-3

AS needles pierce its stomach and drip anesthetic, a rat loses consciousness and is ready for research surgery that eventually may save human lives. Of course, this is no ordinary rat, the kind you might spot on...

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City balconies and parks buzzing havens for threatened bee colonies

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-9-24

IN Paris, the romantic city of lights, the bees are downright busy. Common sense says it is better to keep hives of stinging insects in the countryside, away from city centers packed with people. Yet on rooftops and...

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Training for dogs gains popularity as owners seek more obedient pets

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-9-15

IN a room at the Shanghai Loves Pet Training School, a black adult Kunming dog looks quite docile, sitting or running at every command from its trainer or owner. It follows the trainer quietly and reacts immediately...

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Killer magpies zoom in on pests in Century Park

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-4-21

KRARRAH, kwink, kwink, kwink" - A bird with a long blue tail and blue wings swoops down from a camphor tree, hops on the grass, picks up a tasty bug morsel and dashes back to its bough. It's an azure-winged magpie...

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The foie gras row - a liver runs through it

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-3-13

PEOPLE for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently launched a contest for chefs around the world to create a recipe for a vegetarian alternative foie gras. Aubrey Buckingham chews over the controversy While wildlife...

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Antarctica and its friends seek to give tourists the cold shoulder

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-2-16

THE economic downturn is curbing tourism to Antarctica providing a respite to a long-term surge that environmentalists have wanted to cap to avert damage to the world's last big wilderness. The number of visitors...

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Palm oil foresterPalm oil foresters drive out orangutans

Feature | Pet Connection
2009-2-1

HOPING to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: it was chimpanzees for Jane Goodall, mountain gorillas for Dian...

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Saving the salamander - Muppet-like 'walking fish' of Mexico

Feature | Pet Connection
2008-11-4

AN exotic 30-centimenter-long salamander, the Mexican "water monster" or axolotl, has a feathery mane and smiley face. But there's nothing to laugh about - it's near extinction, writes David Koop. Beneath the...

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'Trash bin' bears hit towns for food

Feature | Pet Connection
2008-10-19

SPRAWLED on the side of a narrow road that winds up the Carpathian mountains in central Romania, a brown bear buries its snout in a paw, eyes peeking playfully at cars passing by. As drivers pull over to take photos,...

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No way out for Shanghai's crusading cat lover

Feature | Pet Connection
2008-10-12

IT started with a small romantic gesture. Duo Zirong was on the way home from dinner some 20 years ago, when her date stopped at a subway station and bought her a kitten from a Beijing pet-shop. That obscure little...

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Strictly for the birds

Feature | Pet Connection
2008-9-11

CHINESE folk love birds, and it's a favorite leisure pastime of old people to hang their birdcages on a tree limb while chatting about their fine feathered friends. Fashioning cages is one man's love and livelihood. ...

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Pets keep the fun going

Feature | Pet Connection
2008-8-29

THOUGH the summer holidays are drawing to an end, the fun doesn't have to stop. Pet Paradise Asia 2008 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in Pudong invites local pet lovers to enjoy a day's fun. ...