Gerbil News

Buying pet food is no walk in the park with Fido. Hauling bags of kibble that can weigh up to 35 pounds from the store to the car and then into the house can test an owner's love for a pet.

Four pets found alive after being abandoned for more than a week in a Columbia home have been nursed back to health and are now available for adoption, according to the Howard County Police Department.

What would the world be like without people and their pets? Over many years two beagles, two Springer spaniels, two cats, and vicariously through the children, numerous hermit crabs, fish, gerbils, hamsters, turtles and ferrets have resided in the home.

My mother says my two 1-year-old gerbils have pinkeye, and I should give them eye drops.

Wooden, a pastor at Raleigh's Upper Room Church, is an outspoken supporter of North Carolina's proposed constitutional amendment that would bar the state from recognizing the unions of gay couples with marriage, civil unions and possibly domestic partnerships.

North Carolina pastor Patrick Wooden has said gay men shove cellphones and gerbils up their anuses and knows of a man who died in diapers, media watchdog RightWingWatch.org reported.

What a year! We've tabulated the numbers and analyzed the results for 2011. On almost every measure, the Humane Society for Greater Savannah had its best year ever.