» News Story</h1> <article> <h1>The Teacup Micro Pigs</h1> <p>admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:13:06 +0000</p> <p></p> <p>The Swine Flu isn’t the only thing making headlines these days, now you have the Micro swine! The new craze in the world of micro sized pets happens to be a pig of all things. They are a mixture of breeds including Miniature Pot Bellied, Kune Kune, German Micro, Gloucester Old Spot and Tamworth . Teacup pigs are all the rage in Britain right now, these pets are small in size but command a high price tag. Teacup Pigs are sold for as much as £700 each, that coverts to about $1,125. These pocket sized porkers are much smaller than your standard farm pig, this teacup breed weighs 9 oz. (the size of a teacup) at birth. At two years old, they are fully grown, weighing in at around 40-65 lbs and standing at only 12-16in in height. The trendy piglets are almost impossible to get hold of in England. Breeder, Jane Croft, has already received thousands of inquires from people eager to own one.</p> <p><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/mHyDY6UsAgU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&hd=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p> <p><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/kwzELBFBBdI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&hd=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p> </article> <article> <h1>Pooch Saves Boy Lost in Wilderness</h1> <p>admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:19:16 +0000</p> <p>(Sept. – A stray pooch who got a helping hand from a Canadian family more than repaid the favor when he saved the family’s 2-year-old son in the Yukon wilderness.<br /> The British Columbia family, whose name was withheld at their request, took the yellow dog under their wing after encountering him on their trek through the bush. The scruffy-looking mongrel had porcupine quills sticking out of his snout, and the family tried to help him by pulling some out, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported.<br /> Last Thursday, as the parents were setting up a trailer in the evening, their 2-year-old son, Kale, disappeared wearing only a T-shirt. News of a missing boy triggered a full-scale search involving rescue professionals and many local volunteers.<span id="more-107"></span></p> <p>Rescue parties located Kale more than 24 hours after he vanished. With him was the stray dog, who had kept the little boy warm by cuddling with him during the damp, cool night and protected him in the bear-infested woods. “The night was cold and wet and the terrain in the area is rough … Most adults wouldn’t make it through the night before succumbing to hypothermia, let alone a 2-year-old child,” Michael Pealow, a member of the Whitehorse District Search and Rescue Society team, wrote in a blog post, according to The Globe and Mail.</p> <div id="articleTxt5">“A bear could have got him. Anything could have happened,” Mike Bondarchuk, a volunteer who helped search for Kale, told the newspaper. “What we do know is the dog stuck with him, all night and all the next day.”</div> <div id="articleTxt6">The dog’s owner heard the whole story and came forward. Kim Dolan instantly recognized the canine hero as her dog, Koda, who had been missing for about a week. She said she had adopted Koda several months earlier after the dog was abandoned in Ross River, British Columbia.</div> <div></div> <div id="articleTxt7">“He’s a total mutt. A total kid dog … he just wants to be loved,” Dolan told The Globe and Mail.</div> <div id="articleTxt8">Although she said it was hard to do, Dolan decided to give Koda to Kale’s family.</div> <div id="articleTxt9">“He was meant to be there at that time,” she said. “It was tough to give him away. I was in tears … but it was the right thing to do.”</div> <div></div> <div>AOL News</div> </article> <article> <h1>Gidget the “Taco Bell Chihuahua” dies at age 15</h1> <p>admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:56:46 +0000</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Associated Press</strong></p> <p>LOS ANGELES (AP) – Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, whose Taco Bell commercials made her a star, has died. She was 15.</p> <p>The owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic says Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday at her trainer’s home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized.</p> <p>Gidget was the sassy mascot in Taco Bell commercials from 1997 to 2000. While other dogs had bit parts, it was her bug-eyed, big-eared face that is seen pronouncing, in a dubbed male voice, “Yo quiero Taco Bell,” Spanish for “I want Taco Bell.”</p> <p>The ads made the Taco Bell mascot wildly popular, although they provoked some criticism from activists who felt they used Mexican stereotypes.</p> <p>Gidget also had a role in the movie “Legally Blonde 2.”</p> <p><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M8sZ1DWsAHE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p> </article> <article> <h1>Hasani, baby gorilla at San Francisco Zoo</h1> <p>admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:13:22 +0000</p> <p id="photoCaption" class="caption"></p> <p class="caption">Hasani, a six-month old western lowland gorilla, forages for food at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, Friday, June 5, 2009. Hasani, whos name means ‘handsome’ in Swahili, is the first gorilla born in captivity at the zoo in 11 years.<cite id="captionCite">(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)</cite></p> </article> </main></body></html>