Rolling Dog Farm Blog

At the risk of inciting or inflaming passions about a sensitive topic — no emails, please! –  I decided to let New Scientist, one of my favorite publications, do a "guest post" for me today.  I saw this fascinating story about dogs vs. cats in my daily news digest from New Scientist yesterday and thought it would make a very interesting read for the last blog post of the week. 

Note that this is also the cover story in the current print edition of the magazine, but they use a different and far more provocative headline:  Why Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats.  [Ouch.]

I thought it safer and wiser to use the title New Scientist used for their Web version of the story:  Dogs vs. Cats — The Great Pet Showdown.  [Neutral.  Safe.]  Apparently the people editing the Web site content for New Scientist were thinking the same way.  Or maybe they are, you know, cat people.

In any case, you can read the New Scientist story here.

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Still No. 1 — But That Iowa Group Is Moving Up Fast!

Please keep voting for the ranch every
day in The Animal Rescue
Site/PetFinder's Shelter Challenge.  Thanks
to your votes, we came in third nationwide and won $3,000 for the
animals in the previous contest earlier this year.  Now we have a shot at No. 1 and the
$20,000 grand prize in the current contest!  Enter
"Rolling Dog Ranch" and our state postal code, MT for Montana,
and it will bring up our listing so you can cast your vote.  Please ask
your family and friends to vote, too. 

You can see how fast the rankings can change, so we really need an
extra push in the last 10 days of the contest to hold that No. 1
spot.  It ends on December 20th, so we're in the home stretch — and $20,000 for the animals is in sight!  Thank you!