Gerbil News

The print is soooo tiny! By SHELLEY TERRY - Staff Writer - sterry@starbeacon.com Have you seen the new phone book? Or, rather, I'm going to talk about what you can't see.

I recently asked my kids what super power they would choose to have. My daughter didn't hesitate before saying that she would want to be able to talk to animals.

A new place to adopt a best friend has opened on Madison's West Side. More than 30 matches already have been made - for a fee - and relationships have been sealed with wet kisses and purrs of delight.

What a clever title for a book. In fact, the moment I read the title and saw the gorgeous male peacock in full regalia staring at me from the front cover....well, the book jumped right into my hands begging to be read! The author is Barbara Burn, widow of Dr.

After a much needed extended sleep Dr. Z feels refreshed instead of run down for the first time in weeks.

Some children grow up living with their father's obsession for golf or fishing. For Holly Robinson, it was gerbils.

"The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter: A Memoir," Holly Robinson Gerbils are really cute, and most kids love them.

Olivia Woods, 10, of Bethesda, holds her gerbil, Tinkerbell, in a ball the gerbil used to race during a hamster and gerbil derby at the MacArthur Pet Shop on Saturday in Bethesda to benefit the Montgomery County Humane Society.

Steve Hanna of Bedford does not mess around with Christmas. Last Thanksgiving weekend, the computer security expert caught a plane for Helsinki, Finland, met a man at the airport, secured his bounty and hopped back on a flight to New York.

The next time you dig into a bowl of pasta, treat it with respect. For what may be a heap of Spag Bol to you, is the earthly manifestation of the Supreme Being for someone else.

"If 2007 was tumultuous, 2008 was sheer survival," Paulette Dean, executive director of the Danville Area Humane Society, said as she opened the organization's annual meeting Monday.

This week's dining review is one part homage to Fido--the beloved coffee shop in Hillsboro Village, which has evolved into an unexpectedly sophisticated yet unpretentious restaurant--and one part ode to the bygone Jones Pet Shop, where I bought my first guinea pig and was actually bitten by a monkey.

Over the long weekend of May 15th - 18th the Toronto Humane Society will be holding our Spring Adoption Blitz.

Zachariah Wingerter Apr 22, 2009 Attention pet lovers: Beware of government. A proposed bill will ban the sale, breeding and transportation of thousands of common household pets.

This is an article about cats. And dogs and fish and rats and gerbils and guinea pigs.

Most veterinarians' days are filled with ailing cats, dogs, gerbils or parakeets.

Although they lost almost everything, a family devastated by the Meadowbrook apartment fire has reason to be thankful.

This week, the Community Triple Take panelists tackle a topic about which readers are passionate - pets, and specifically, do we overvalue our pets.

If you own a hamster, gerbil, lizard, ferrets, exotic fish, snakes, birds or most any pet other than a dog or cat, your rights as a pet owner could be seriously affected.

A warm fuzzy makes anyone feel good. But teeny tiny, warm and fuzzy pets can be irresistible.