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Moon The Dog

The life of a Dog is never easy. These are the trials of a canine existence. With (unwanted) commentary by a cat.

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I am Moon. I am a dog. I live with my sister, Zoey. I am ruled by the Queen Moran. There is also "The Cat", Nanu, who is the bane of my existence. This site is the story of our life under the same roof. Oh yeah, we have a few human servants here, but they will be rarely mentioned.



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Friday, April 22, 2005

Now this is MY kind of law

How about a law that requires your humans to walk you three times per day, and prohibiting them from turning you into "ridiculous fluffy toy" by dying your hair, etc. This is my type of law, passed in Turin.

I will have to get my humans to work on getting something like this in California.

Reuters
Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to 500 euros ($650) if they don't walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city's council.

People will also be banned from dyeing their pets' fur or "any form of animal mutilation" for merely aesthetic motives such as docking dogs' tails, under the law about to be passed in the northern Italian city.

"In Turin it will be illegal to turn one's dog into a ridiculous fluffy toy," the city's La Stampa daily reported.

Italians can already be fined up to 10,000 euros and spend a year in prison if found guilty of torturing or abandoning their pets, but Turin's new rules go into much greater detail.

Dogs may be led for walks by people on bicycles, the rules say, "but not in a way that would tire the animal too much."

Italy considers itself an animal-loving nation and in many cities stray cats are protected by law. Still some 150,000 pet dogs and 200,000 cats are abandoned in Italy every year, according to animal rights groups.

To enforce the law, Turin police would rely largely on the help of tipsters spotting cruel treatment by their neighbors, La Stampa reported.

It said the 20-page rulebook gives Turin the most stringent animal protection rules in the country. It even bans fairgrounds from giving away goldfish in plastic bags.

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