Award-winning actress and pet parent Felicity Huffman has teamed up with Iams Home for the Holidays to help raise awareness for the millions of homeless dogs and cats throughout North America. Home for the Holidays has set a goal to place 1 million orphaned animals into happy and loving homes during this year’s holiday season [...]
Everyone has an opinion about what kind of dog the Obamas should take to the White House.
Rescue a homeless dog, advise adoption shelters. Think poodle, says the American Kennel Club, which ran an online survey. Radio talk and Internet comments run the gamut from serious pet-care advice to un-PC jabs.
In his election night address, Barack [...]
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The Humane Society of Dallas County’s shelter has stopped accepting surrendered animals for the first time in its 30-year history because of financial problems.
The no-kill shelter, Dog and Kitty City, is facing a double whammy: Donations have fallen roughly 75 percent since last year and adoptions have dropped 25 percent as fewer people [...]
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While Sarah Palin chooses to spend her free time shooting animals from helicopters and trying to manipulate the endangered species list, Senator Barack Obama is out and about rescuing animals from shelters.
Earlier this year, rumors began circulating that the Obamas were planning to add a doggy addition to their family. Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA, [...]
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Three Greer Girl Scout troops worked together during Tunes on Trade to turn rainbows and butterflies into money for abandoned animals hoping to find new families. Last week, more than a dozen members visited the Greenville County Humane Society with a $243 check earned painting faces on Trade Street.
“I love animals and love to [...]
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Wolves are extinct in Texas, but in one area of the Lone Star State, it isn’t unusual to hear the chilling chorus of their howls echoing across rolling hills and filtering through towering pines as residents of Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary communicate with one another.
Located on 100 private, wooded acres northeast of Houston, the [...]
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The ASPCA(R) (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(R)) has deployed a team of disaster response experts to assist the state of Louisiana in pre- and post-storm evacuation and sheltering in anticipation of Hurricane Gustav. Louisiana state officials have declared a pre-storm State of Emergency, and Gustav is a Category 3 [...]
When bloodhounds from Virginia K9 Rescue and Recovery showed up at Heritage Humane Society and tracked down a 13-year-old boy in the wooded area behind the animal shelter, there was no cause for alarm. Representatives from the rescue and recovery group were there as part of the shelter’s Critters Camp, a summer camp for children [...]
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There must be something in the water: A second fat cat has been dropped off at the same south Jersey animal shelter that introduced the world to a 44-pound tabby named Prince Chunk.
The new portly pussycat weighs 35 pounds, is a male and has a nickname deserving of his remarkable heft.
“He looks fatter than Chunk [...]
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