<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/pets/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/pets</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:08:03 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Dog Owners Beware: Shared Water Presents Dangers]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/dogs.contaminated.water.2.1070822.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/dogs.contaminated.water.2.1070822.html</link><description><![CDATA[Two puppies in Brooklyn are dead after a trip to their local dog run. It's believed that they died after drinking water contaminated by rat urine. Leptospirosis is a rare, but fast-moving, disease that thrives in mud and standing water and is spread through the urine of infected animals. Rodents are common carriers, and may have contaminated water in the dog run. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:56:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Phone Service Helps To Track Lost Pets]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/find.toto.pet.2.1069762.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/find.toto.pet.2.1069762.html</link><description><![CDATA[More than five million family pets are reported lost or stolen each year, and the experience can often be heartbreaking. So when a 2-year-old dog named Mikey went missing from his owner Gina Nagel's Long Island backyard in May, she pulled out all the stops. "I went to the pound, we made up signs, we went on Craiglist and called all the vets and (found) nothing," Nagel said. "I've had boyfriends that I didn't miss as much."
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:12:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear Mugs N.J. Man For Sandwich]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/henry.rouwendal.bear.2.1068638.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/henry.rouwendal.bear.2.1068638.html</link><description><![CDATA[A northwestern New Jersey man says he was mugged in his driveway by a sandwich-craving bear. Henry Rouwendal says he was packing his car last Friday when he was hit from behind and knocked to the ground. He says the culprit was a black bear who took his Italian sandwich. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:54:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swarm Of Bees Go Sightseeing In NYC]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/bees.nyc.honeybees.2.1063930.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/bees.nyc.honeybees.2.1063930.html</link><description><![CDATA[An urban bee-wrangler says a swarm of at least 8,000 honeybees will be getting a new home after causing a buzz of excitement on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Onlookers applauded as the New York Police Department's beekeeper, Officer Anthony Planakis, corralled the huge swarm Sunday on Lexington Avenue. 
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:55:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA Issues Warning On Pet Flea & Tick Medications]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/national/epa.warning.flea.2.1051115.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/national/epa.warning.flea.2.1051115.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into all liquid "Top Spot" flea and tick treatments for dogs and cats. It follows a major uptick in adverse reactions among pets. The EPA has gathered 44,000 reports of side effects. Most of them were mild, but some were serious and even fatal. Now all top spot products are under investigation, including ones by Hartz, Sergeants, Zodiac, Frontline and Advantage. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:09:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroic 9/11 Search And Rescue Dog Cloned]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/trakr.911.rescue.2.1048297.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/trakr.911.rescue.2.1048297.html</link><description><![CDATA[A dog made famous for its heroics in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has succesfully been cloned by BioArts, a California-based company. Trakr, a German Sheppard rescue dog from Nova Scotia, helped rescue victims at Ground Zero eight years ago. The dog actually pulled the last remaining survivor from the rubble itself, and his owner, James Symington, believes that was merely one example of Trakr's abilities. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl, 14, Accused Of Burning Kitten Alive In Oven]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/kitten.burned.in.2.1049160.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/kitten.burned.in.2.1049160.html</link><description><![CDATA[A dog made famous for its heroics in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has succesfully been cloned by BioArts, a California-based company. Trakr, a German Sheppard rescue dog from Nova Scotia, helped rescue victims at Ground Zero eight years ago. The dog actually pulled the last remaining survivor from the rubble itself, and his owner, James Symington, believes that was merely one example of Trakr's abilities. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:48:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puppy Survives After Being Flushed Down The Toilet]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/puppy.toilet.london.2.1045534.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/puppy.toilet.london.2.1045534.html</link><description><![CDATA[A week-old puppy survived after it was accidentally flushed down a toilet in London by a little boy and becoming trapped in a drain for four hours. Four-year-old Daniel Blair, of Northolt in west London, was attempting to wash the newborn dog in the commode on Sunday after it had become muddy from a walk in the garden. When he flushed the toilet, the poor pooch was swept away and got trapped in a waste pipe. 
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:28:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pit Bull Dragged Behind Pickup; SCPA Seeks Driver]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/pit.bull.dragged.2.1044811.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/pit.bull.dragged.2.1044811.html</link><description><![CDATA[Authorities are trying to find the person who tied a pit bull to the bumper of a pickup truck and dragged it through a New Jersey neighborhood. Vineland police got a call about the dragging on Saturday night and the young pit bull turned up the next morning on the porch of a nearby home. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:50:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain, Warmth To Bring Mosquitoes Out In Droves]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/rain.warmth.mosquitoes.2.1042667.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/rain.warmth.mosquitoes.2.1042667.html</link><description><![CDATA[All the recent rain has experts anticipating a bumper crop of mosquitoes. If April showers bring May flowers, June rain brings the pain of mosquito bites. That's why, in Westchester and other counties, mosquito abatement teams are keeping busy putting bricks of larvicide into storm water catch basins, where mosquitoes like to breed. 2009 marks ten years since the West Nile Virus first appeared in the area. The question now is whether more mosquitoes this year will mean a greater threat of West Nile. 
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