Dear Friends, One of our members is working on a project. Called 2 Dogs 2000 Miles - Her friend, Luke Robinson, is walking from Austin to Boston for cancer prevention (pets & people) with his two Great Pyrenees, Hudson & Murphy.
 
As part of this project, they have built a Memorial Wall honouring all of our ‘fur-kids’ who have been stricken by this terrible disease. There's no cost at all to have a 'stone' placed on the website. However, this also serves a dual purpose of providing the information for the first database of pet cancer ever which will help researchers try to understand what's causing the cancers and why certain cancers are more common in certain regions.
 
If you'd like to have your pet a part of the Wall, email a photo (in any format) and the following information: (1) Breed (2) Date of birth, diagnosis, and (if applicable) passing (3) type of cancer (4) zip code (not current - where the diagnosis occurred). Your zip code will not be shown...but needed to track areas with cancer...types etc.
 
Email info and photos to: memwall@2dogs2000miles.org and in the subject put please list me on the memorial wall.
 
 The money raised from the hike will fund the first ever nationwide epidemiological canine cancer study which will be managed by the Animal Cancer Foundation (press release coming mid-January).
 
But this study has even more far reaching implications. Most nearly all types of cancers in pets are the same found in humans and increasingly, dogs with cancers are being used as ideal models for research and drug development. This has another benefit, too, of reducing our dependency on lab animals (Note - no research funded by ACF uses lab animals in any of their studies, only pets with preexisting cancer).
 
For more info visit the website: www.2dogs2000miles.org
Memorial Wall www.2dogs2000miles.org/Memorial_Wall.html
Trailer on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=wWCX-m_h4dQ

COMMON DISEASES

Below you will find links to pages on several common canine afflictions. We can't cover everything but we try to add to the site when we can. The pages below will give you an overview of this disease and also contain links to websites outside of CCO that will have more in-depth information on the subject. Once outside our website you may hit your browsers ‘back’ button to return to CCO.

CAT CARE                 CORNER            tips on how to keep your cat cancer free

Visit the DOGFOOD PROJECT website for the most comprehensive free information on  commercial pet foods. Also visit WHAT IS IN PET FOODS? If you care about what you feed your animal THESE SITES ARE A MUST!     

 Do you feed your pet IAMS or EUKANUBA? You may want to read this.

Do you feed Science Diet? Read this before you by your next can or bag.

PRO-HEART Heartworm SHOTS KILL!  NEVER GIVE THIS SHOT TO YOUR PET!

Hartz KILLS Pets! www. hartzvictims. org

Did you know MOST table food is good for your pet? And that a BRAZIL NUT A DAY MIGHT KEEP CANCER AWAY?

  But onions; raisins; chocolate; grapes and more can   make them very sick or even kill?  read more