Archive for October, 2007
Animals stolen during pet store break-ins
Friday, October 26th, 2007Police say several critters were stolen during two burglaries at a Waterloo pet store this week. Emporium Pets was broken into late Monday or early Tuesday when someone smashed out a door panel and took a 4-foot-long albino corn snake, a foot-long ghost corn snake, a pair of gecko lizards and a 3-month-old Italian Greyhound. [...]
A heavenly kind of treat
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007“Everyone has a kind of desire to seek God’s favor in their stewardship of their pets,” said the Rev. Mark Bialek, who planned to bring his Italian greyhound, Holly, to an animal blessing yesterday at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Fullerton. To some theologians and clergy, animal blessings – usually short and held outside [...]