Baby kissing and hand shaking move over. Tail wagging is now officially on the stump. Amidst the barrage of news on the 2008 presidential election, is another kind of campaign message, delivered by television actor and veteran stand up comic Richard Belzer. He’s now Uncle Sam, star of a life-saving campaign, “We Want You… To [...]
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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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In preparation for Tropical Storm Gustav, the city of New Orleans has already begun evacuating animals from its shelters and sending them to shelters in nearby communities.
Additionally, New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin has said that pet owners will have access to cages and carriers for their pets to expedite the evacuation all the non-human members [...]
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Several months ago, Judy Sharp found a dog on the side of the road, named her Ella, and brought her to my dad’s veterinary office. You might recall seeing Ella before on Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo, in this post or this post.
Ella was born only half of her lower jaw, so her tongue sticks out [...]
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You’ve heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society’s shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.
Shelter Director Diane Blankenburg said it happened Monday while the two-year-old Boxer/Pit Bull mix named Angel was on a walk [...]
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An animal shelter’s mascot — a rare two-headed turtle — was the star of a newspaper article on Monday, but it was stolen from its tank before the article ran.
The turtle was taken Sunday evening, hours after the Daily News reporter left, said Sean Casey, owner of the Sean Casey Animal Rescue and neighboring pet [...]
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After nearly 170 cats and dogs were euthanized Monday at the Tangipahoa Animal Shelter in Hammond, and people who worked there are speaking out.
Some are questioning how the shelter was run and why such drastic measures were taken.
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Shelter officials have called the porker “Princess Chunk” and are hoping she will find a nice, ideally diet-friendly home.
“She’s built like a quarterback,” said Deborah Wright, a Camden County Animal Shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. “I mean, how do you lose a 44-pound (20-kilo) cat?!”
The heaviest cat on record [...]
Across Southern California, the 5.4 earthquake rattled furry nerves and ruffled feathers–literally.
“My birds felt it first,” reported one reader. “They were all fluffy and upset a few seconds before it happened.”
In Chino Hills, the epicenter of the quake, Alissa Sissung’s 10-year-old daughter, Delaney, was spending the day at a horse camp not far from her [...]
The battle between animal activists and the Puerto Rican government over the treatment of pets and the apparent lack of shelters is intensifying again.
This time the fight is delaying the long-awaited reopening of an animal shelter along the island’s northern coast, a government official said Saturday.
Activists say the government will try to run the US$200,000 shelter like [...]
