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Animal odd couples and the busy bees at PetConnection.com
By Gina Spadafori
November 4, 2009
Yesterday, Christie’s piece on Sick Vick rocked the SFGate.com Web site and landed her a slot on a national radio show. Our Dr. Marty Becker was on “The Cooper Lawrence Show” coast to coast the night before. Today, Kim’s on the front screen of MSNBC.com with a wonderful article on animal odd couples. AndLiz has a weekly podcast on PetLifeRadio.com.
Heck, if Dr. Becker and I hadn’t been in Parade magazine Sunday, I’d really feel as if I weren’t keeping up with the PetConnection team!
Back to Kim:
A video of best buddies Suriya (orangutan) and Roscoe (pooch) is a YouTube sensation. An old tortoise and a young hippo have their own Web site and line of books detailing their friendship. You see stories of unlikely animal friends on the news: horses nuzzling cats, dogs caring for kittens and a pig nursing tiger cubs — and in May, Oprah even featured a dog and elephant who are best friends on her show.
These unusual relationships are celebrated and admired. But are they genuine — or do we just want them to be?
They’re often actually the real deal, says John Wright, Ph.D., a certified applied animal behaviorist and professor of psychology at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. Given the right set of circumstances, and the right animals, they can form close and lasting relationships.
And set your alarm, VCR or TiVo to make sure you don’t miss our Dr. Marty Becker’s return to the hottest new show on TV, “The Dr. Oz Show.” We’ll have more on this later today, but for now, here’s where to find time and channel for the show locally.
I can hardly wait to see what today brings!
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Forgot to mention: Regular reader/commenter and talented artist Susan Fox is quoted in Kim’s article.
Comment by Gina Spadafori — November 4, 2009 @ 8:25 am
Thanks for blogging this. I forgot it was going to be up today.
Comment by Kim Thornton — November 4, 2009 @ 9:13 am
The article by Kim is very well done. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by Snoopys Friend — November 4, 2009 @ 9:53 am
Oh, and I forgot to mention our regular nationally syndicated pet-care page, distributed weekly by the great folks at Universal Press (shout-out to our editor, Greg Melvin. He and I have been working together for 12 years … and he is the best!)
We’re having a pretty good week when our regular weekly syndicated pet-care page rates only a footnote!
Comment by Gina Spadafori — November 4, 2009 @ 10:26 am