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# Pet

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# Halloween
OPINION: Don't let your dog greet trick-or-treaters and other tips to keep your pet stress-free
Una O’Toole of the Irish Blue Cross talks us through some ways you can safeguard your pets this Halloween.
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Oct 29th 2018, 8:30 PM
# lunch crunch
Poll: Should a pet sleep in your bed with you?
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
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Jun 22nd 2017, 12:45 PM
# series of robberies
Family pet 'killed in burglary' at house in Armagh
Police are investigating a number of robberies in Northern Ireland.
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Nov 26th 2016, 4:55 PM
# french vanilla
Everyone's loving this family's ridiculous conversation about their cat's nightly routine
This cat is better fed than you are.
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Aug 25th 2016, 1:45 PM
# good boy
This mam made a cardboard cut out of the family dog for her son to take to college
Best present ever.
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Aug 21st 2016, 11:30 AM
# come home
A missing dog from Tallaght has just turned up safe and sound, NINE years later
Welcome home Jess!
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Aug 19th 2016, 8:28 PM
# #SayonaraSchweini
Bastian Schweinsteiger retires from international football
The 2014 World Cup winner has called it a day.
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Jul 29th 2016, 10:06 AM
# Reunited
This dog was reunited with his owner after 8 years, and was ecstatic to see him
Not able.
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May 22nd 2015, 1:47 PM
# together again
Autistic boy reunited with stolen dog after mother's viral campaign
The dog was, ironically, found near the head office of a dog food company.
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Feb 2nd 2015, 6:23 PM
# Nine lives
'Zombie' cat presumed dead, claws its way out of grave 5 days later
*screams forever*
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Jan 27th 2015, 8:00 PM
# hun
6 ways a stranger's greeting can make you blind with rage
“Smile”.
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Jul 15th 2014, 1:00 PM
# Week in Web
Weird Wide Web: A Facebook experiment, a Lindsay Lohan lawsuit and a dog weight loss app
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
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Jul 6th 2014, 11:30 AM
# an american tail
Family lose dog during Hurricane Sandy, find it almost two years later in a pound
Hurricane Sandy hit in October 2012. Last week, the James family finally found their dog Reckless.
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May 4th 2014, 12:00 PM
Voices
Opinion: A man and his dog – being homeless in Dublin
We bump into each other most days in the park, or outside the local shops. We are two very different people but we have one special connection: our dogs.
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May 3rd 2014, 12:00 PM
# my little pony
An adorable miniature horse had to be rescued from a tiny sinkhole
So tiny. So miniature.
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May 3rd 2014, 10:00 AM
# lil nibbler
This tiny hamster eating tiny burritos is guaranteed to brighten up your hump day
If you can’t handle the cute, get out of the teeny tiny kitchen.
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Apr 30th 2014, 8:11 AM
# Animal Cruelty
Woman jailed for microwaving her kitten after it attacked goldfish
Sentencing the 23-year-old woman to 14 weeks in jail, the judge said it was an act “of utterly horrendous cruelty”.
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Mar 13th 2014, 2:38 PM
# phat
Meet Pickles, the 21 pound 'Catasaurus Rex'
That’s one fat cat.
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Feb 17th 2014, 8:30 PM
# Feelings
Frightened dog found treading water two miles off the coast of Florida
No one knows how long the dog had been out there for.
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Jan 7th 2014, 7:30 PM
# not just for christmas
Charity warns public about ‘illicit puppy traders’ selling online
The charity estimates there are more than 10,000 dogs and puppies for sale online on any given day.
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Nov 27th 2013, 1:37 PM
# Ballymun
Animal charity euthanised dogs at roadside following loss of premises
Dogs Aid were running clinics from an apartment in a Ballymun towerblock, but were asked to leave ahead of its destruction.
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Nov 17th 2013, 11:30 AM
# run with us
Forget cats and dogs, we want a pet raccoon...
… and here’s why
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Jul 26th 2013, 3:00 PM
# Lost
Do you know this dog?
He was handed into Pearse Street Garda Station today and they’re looking to find his owner.
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Jul 3rd 2013, 6:10 PM
# Friends Reunited
Homeless man reunited with beloved pooch
Bringing a whole new meaning to “Lassie, come home.”
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May 23rd 2013, 1:30 PM
# Oklahoma
VIDEO: Emotional reunion as tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under house
Barbara Garcia was in the middle of an interview with a CBS reporter when the little pooch poked his head out of the rubble.
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May 21st 2013, 11:37 AM
# Rescued
Dumped and dying, Finzi's tale serves as warning to dog owners
Finzi’s tale is a cautionary one for dog owners, vet Pete Wedderburn said, warning people to make sure to worm their dogs.
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Mar 10th 2013, 8:20 AM
# abandoned
ISPCA: "Don't abandon the pet puppy you got for Christmas"
Almost 500 dogs were abandoned last January and February.
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Jan 2nd 2013, 12:28 PM
# essex lion
VIDEO: Meet the animal that sparked the #EssexLion hunt*
*According to its owner.
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Aug 29th 2012, 10:31 AM
# Return of the Tortoise
He's back! Rathgar tortoise returns home
One-hundred-year-old pet went missing from Dublin home on Saturday afternoon.
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May 7th 2012, 1:50 PM
# Great Escape
Have you seen this tortoise? 100-year-old pet makes quick getaway in Dublin
Florentine the tortoise’s escape has been trending on Twitter in Dublin this afternoon after his unexpected getaway.
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May 6th 2012, 2:54 PM
# jack the cat
Cat who was lost in JFK airport dies weeks after being found
Jack the Cat was missing in JFK airport for two months, before being found by American Airlines staff and reunited with his distraught owner. Now comes the sad news that Jack has died.
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Nov 7th 2011, 2:10 PM
# Nah Way Pet
Cheryl Cole not set for judging role on RTÉ's The Voice
Reports that Chezza was to appear on Irish screens in a new talent contest are incorrect.
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Aug 17th 2011, 3:18 PM
# Saved
Man jumps into Liffey to save pet rabbit
Eyewitnesses say that another man threw the pet into the river at O’Connell Bridge….
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Jul 4th 2011, 1:55 PM