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In the course of helping our beloved pets to be as healthy as possible and to live as long of a life as possible, Bichon FurKids Rescue comes across information that we want to make available to you. Our goal is one of education - the choice as to what works for you and what you want to do is totally yours. With that in mind, following is the current information regarding the dog food recall situation and some articles on other topics that we hope you will find of interest.

Pedigree Small Crunchy Bites food recall

As pet and bichon lovers, some of you may know people that feed the Pedigree product to their pets. Albertson stores in both Southern Cal and Nevada have announced a voluntary recall of Pedigree Small Crunchy Bites due to potential Salmonella contamination. Mars Petcare, the distributor of this product, states that the recall is voluntary and has pet safety as its primary goal. Please read the article below and share this information.

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Cases of Xylitol Poisoning in Dogs Rise

A sugar substitute found in a variety of sugar-free and dietetic cookies, mints and chewing gum is proving highly toxic, even fatal, to snack-snatching dogs.

Xylitol, an alternative-sweetener, can be "very, very serious" to dogs when ingested, says Dana Farbman, spokeswoman for the Animal Poison Control Center of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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Dog gets tongue stuck in toy, must be amputated

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Swimming can be hazardous for your dog -- be aware of blue green algae

Although there are not a lot of bichons that like to swim, many of you have non-bichons in your family or know people that have dogs that swim. Please read this and let people whose dogs are swimmers know about the issue with blue green algae.

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TAKE THE PLEDGE TO HELP STOP PUPPY MILLS TODAY!

Puppy mills are breeding facilities that produce purebred puppies in large numbers. Puppy mills have long concerned The HSUS.

Often the puppies are sold directly to the public via the Internet, newspaper ads, or at the mill itself. In other cases they are sold to brokers and pet shops across the country. ALL pet stores receive their puppies from puppy mills!

The myriad documented problems of puppy mills include: overbreeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor quality of food and shelter, lack of human socialization, overcrowded cages and the killing of unwanted animals.

For the unwitting consumer, this situation frequently means buying a puppy facing an array of immediate veterinary problems or harboring genetic diseases that surface years later.

Learn more about how to avoid buying a puppy mill dog, and take the pledge to stop puppy mills today.

HSUS MySpace Page | Stop Puppy Mills Website

Petvideo.com, created by the founders of Petfinder.com and Petsincredible, provides online training clips that you can now view. You can select from a number of different issues about which you want to learn. All of these lessons are based on the positive, reward-based training that is also available on their award-winning PetsIncredible DVD: TRAINING YOUR ADOPTED DOG. If you would like a copy of the DVD - and have adopted from Bichon FurKids - please send us an email at and we'll be happy to send one to you.