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Poor air quality can affect your pets just as much as their human owners

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- We have lungs, and our pets do too. So when the air affects our breathing or allergies, it can bother theirs as well.The size of your pet matters too because of how much smaller their lungs are than ours, so it's important to watch them as much as the air."It's easy for us to see the smoke and taste it and smell it, but we forget about our friends," veterinarian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald said. Denver weather: Mostly dry Monday, more wildfire smoke When humans see smoke they usually think of their breathing, but not often, their pets too."Their cardiovascular system and respiratory system is not that much different than ours," Fitzgerald said.Birds, cats and smaller dogs are particularly vulnerable."It can be bad, particularly for small and older dogs," Fitzgerald said. "Older dogs and younger dogs that are compromised anyway."What are the signs to spot if the bad air outside is affecting "Fido"?"A cough would be a big thing, gagging, salivating," Fitzgerald said, "relu...

2 officers involved in shooting suspect, dog

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KDVR) -- Two Fountain Police Department officers were involved in the shooting of a suspect and his dog on Saturday night. The incident, just south of Colorado Springs in the zero hundred block of Taos Circle, started with a domestic violence call just before 6 p.m."During the investigation, the suspect's dog attacked an officer. While the dog was attacking the officer the suspect then began attacking both officers. While being attacked by both the suspect and his dog, both officers shot at least one round hitting the suspect and the dog," Fountain PD said. 2 men accused of firing shots at Cherry Creek State Park Fountain police said the suspect is recovering in the hospital with at least one gunshot wound but the dog died at the scene.One officer was also taken to the hospital for injuries from a dog bite, but the other officer wasn't injured.The Colorado Springs Police Department is investigating the shooting and the Fountain officers have been put on paid admi...

Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen together again for ‘Platonic’

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen reteam with “Platonic,” a new AppleTV+ comedy series launching Wednesday.They first worked on “Neighbors,” the 2014 campus comedy about rowdy frat boys, and then its 2-year-later sequel.  “Platonic,” which revolves around whether guys can really be “just friends” with women, is co-created and directed by their “Neighbors” helmer Nick Stoller.“I didn’t want to do the show if we didn’t have Seth,” Byrne, 43, said in a Zoom interview with Rogen.  “Having worked together for the ‘Neighbors’ movies I knew we would be having fun and enjoying each other. Just a nice dynamic onscreen.“A show like this lives — and dies! — on the chemistry of the friendship. It really does. We went in knowing we had that. Since we aren’t a married couple, this was different but really exciting and made me want to do the show.”“Part of the appeal,” Rogen,  41, said, “was bringing this theatrical style, R-rated adult comedy to a half-hour serialized televi...

Editorial: Ukraine belongs in NATO, just not yet

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

Although no one knows how the war in Ukraine will end, the country’s leaders maintain that they’ll continue to face the threat of Russian aggression long after the fighting subsides. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said that the only way to ensure the country’s security is for it to join NATO. He wants the alliance to commit to a timetable for Ukraine’s membership during its July summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.It’s a good idea at a terrible time. NATO members are rightly wary of discussing such an escalation while the war is raging. Yet Ukraine’s eventual membership should remain a strategic goal: It would safeguard the country’s independence, bolster the stability of Europe as a whole, and deter Vladimir Putin from ever again attempting to seize control of his neighbor.In 2008, NATO member states made a nonbinding pledge to eventually admit Ukraine and Georgia, both former Soviet republics vulnerable to Russian pressure. However, the alliance refrained from offering eit...

Ambrose: The possible disaster of climate change fear

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

President Joe Biden wants to save us from climate change but who will save us from Joe Biden? The latest trick issuing from his consciously misnamed Inflation Reduction Act is a 681-page rule that could disastrously shut down 3,400 fossil-fuel power plants supplying 60% of our electric power. For them to avoid closure, they would need to eliminate 617 million tons of CO2 emissions even though the means remain iffy at best.He’s a science denier, Biden is, and that’s part of the danger. Scientists agree that atmospheric CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels reflect dangerous heat back to the earth, but not that we will thereby be wiped out. Biden uses the phrase “existential threat” as if climate change will exterminate humankind. Most scientists agree that the hotter it gets, the worse life will be, but don’t go that far.The power plants can supposedly use their own CO2 solution, although the possibilities are limited, and one recommendation of the Environmental Protection Agency s...

Pipes: Scope-of-practice reforms can address doctor shortage

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

America is facing a chronic doctor shortage. Solving that problem will require not just more doctors but a much bigger role for advanced-practice nurses in our healthcare system.A 2021 report found that the United States will need nearly as many as 48,000 more primary care doctors by 2034 to meet patient demand. It’s infeasible to train that many more new doctors over the next decade. We need to make better use of the supply of healthcare professionals we have.In nearly half of states, “scope-of-practice” laws prevent highly qualified nurse practitioners from delivering basic primary care.These laws were intended to protect patients from receiving substandard care. But they just create more work for doctors and unnecessary bottlenecks for delivering care. The result is that doctors are overburdened, fewer patients get seen, and qualified nurse practitioners are frustrated that they can’t exercise the full extent of their training.In today’s healthcare s...

For teens, regular summer jobs may beat side gigs

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

Teens looking for summer work may think “side hustles” and social media are the only ways to make money.“What we hear from a lot of young people is that they’d rather try to start a business than have traditional jobs,” says Ed Grocholski, chief marketing officer of Junior Achievement USA, an organization that helps young people prepare for career success.It’s easy to see why teens are excited. Social media influencers appear to be cashing in on their images and hobbies, and side hustle culture makes it look more feasible than ever to market and sell a product or service. But what teens might not realize is that early entrepreneurial endeavors usually take time to take off. Put another way, they don’t provide steady pay.But traditional jobs do, and for teenagers looking to eventually be their own boss online or off, such in-person work can lay beneficial groundwork. Here are some options for working-age teens and what lessons they could learn on the job.Restaurants remain a qu...

Dear Abby: Woman wants life partner, not hookups

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

Dear Abby: I’m a 32-year-old woman. My 20s were spent in a serious long-term relationship. It was a lot of firsts for me. After we split, I took a couple of years to sow my wild oats and find out who I am as an individual.I’m now looking for something more than “friends with benefits.” However, the last few men I’ve met and gone on dates with, as wholesome as they seemed on dating sites (which have been my main source of meeting men), were really just looking for hookups. I want to find a life partner.I have been chatting with a potentially great guy I met online, and we have a date scheduled. But I’m nervous that when we meet that he’ll expect more than a date. I’m over that. Like I said, I want an actual relationship.Can you give me some advice on what to do and say, or not, on a first or second date to help move it in the right direction without scaring the guy away? — Proceeding With CautionDear Proceeding: Your dating profil...

Koepka delivers another major performance to win PGA

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Confidence was never an issue for Brooks Koepka until the injuries piled up, the doubts crept in and he began to wonder if he still belonged among golf’s elite.Koepka answered every question at the PGA Championship with a performance that ranks among his best. His fifth major title was the sweetest of them all. No doubt about that, either.“It feels damned good. Yeah, this one is definitely special,” Koepka said. “I think this one is probably the most meaningful of them all with everything that’s gone on, all the crazy stuff over the last few years.”One knee injury kept him from the Masters, another from the Presidents Cup in Australia. Two years ago, he tried to pop his knee back into place and shattered his knee cap. And then last summer, uncertain about his future, he decided to leave the PGA Tour for the guaranteed Saudi riches of LIV Golf, bringing a mixture of criticism and skepticism.And there he was Sunday at Oak Hill, looking good as new, d...

With all the politics and maneuvering, how is life in Florida changing for its residents?

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:48:14 GMT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — “Don’t say gay.” Regulation of books and classroom discussion. Teachers, parents and school librarians all navigating new and uncertain ground. LGBTQ+ rights under attack. A very public spat between state government and Disney. And at the center of it all is a governor who has emerged as a rival of former President Donald Trump and likely has his eyes set on the White House. This is Florida at this moment in history, in mid-2023. For many of those who live in Florida, recent months have brought some changes — many linked to Gov. Ron DeSantis. Here, longtime Florida-based Associated Press journalist Brendan Farrington, who has covered the state’s politics since 1997, reflects on the changes for different groups and puts them into the context of the cultural and political landscape. ___HOW LIFE IS CHANGING FOR … YOUR AVERAGE FLORIDIAN:For your average Floridian, cost of living concerns have become an issue and really are not being addressed a...