This sounds neat. I was at this park about seven years ago. We should go back and take the children. The three African elephants at the Wildlife Safari [in Winston, Oregon], have a job at the new “Elephant Car Wash”. For $20, visitors can have an up-close-and-personal encounter with the elephants as they wash down […]
Does the idea of camel milk appeal to you? In some countries, camel milk is called “liquid gold†for its healing and nutritional qualities. Camel’s milk has three times as much vitamin C as cow’s milk and contains high amounts of iron, unsaturated fatty acids and B vitamins.
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TheRecord.com: Realtor Mary Bales is too busy to walk her two dogs every afternoon. The solution is Dog Gone Walking, a pet-care business started seven years ago by Mandy Storey. “They do a great job,” Bales says. “They love and look after the dogs and give them the exercise in the middle of the day
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Do you like fish? Did you tend the family aquarium when you were a child? Stace Bleich did, and now he’s turned his love of fish into a successful business called Aquariums by Design Inc. He designs and installs aquariums. His company also services, maintains and moves them. When he started the business on a
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One niche that continues to flourish is the pet industry. Everyday new business with names like “Puppy Palace” and “Doggie Dewz” popup. According the American Pet Products Association, we spent over $43 billion on our pets in 2008. Americans spent $10 billion on supplies and over-the-counter medicine. They also also spent $11.1 million on veterinary
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The Coloradoan: When Merlin, a Labrador/Doberman mix, was nearing the end of his life last summer, the family that had loved him for 14 years resolved that he would draw his final breath at home. When the time came, Marie Commiskey’s son and two daughters, who had grown up with Merlin, gathered at her Littleton
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Just like any parent, when you get pet parents together they are going to chat about what they love most, their pets! The topic might be the best shampoo or the best place to shop for their products, but if you get together a few Shure Pets consultants, the topic is likely to be about
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Mail Online: “When a dog comes home from a walk filthy and smelling of something unmentionable, the temptation sometimes is to throw the darn thing in the washing machine. Well, now you can. An entrepreneur has come up with the Dog-O-Matic, a mini car-wash that transforms pets from filthy to fluffy in half an hour.”
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Charles J. Johansen, Jr. has patented a pet crematory urn for storing the cremated remains of a deceased pet. A decorative figure in the nearly exact likeness of the deceased pet provides a sealable repository chamber for receiving cremated remains of a deceased pet. I have heard of people having their pets freeze dried and
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When someone is trying to think of a potential business to launch, it is unlikely that poop would be the first think they’d think of. For Miriam that was an idea, and it turned out to be a profitable one. Since MissPoop launched a couple years ago it has grown at extraordinary rates. By keeping
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