What kind of laws does New Mexico have in place to protect animals from being adopted by convicted animal abusers? That?s the question many people are asking after seeing the video of an Albuquerque city worker throwing her dog.
Officials say it is very hard for convicted animal abusers to adopt a pet in Albuquerque and [...]
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In these tough economic times, some families are making drastic decisions just to keep a roof over their heads.
They are doing all they can to save money, even giving up their beloved pets.
Since Palo Alto, California resident Adrianna Rodriguez lost her job, she’s been downsizing, partly by moving into a smaller home which doesn’t allow [...]
Tags: animal shelter, choices, economic times, emergency vet, love, Pet, pet food, pet lover, pet lovers, pets, vet
Summer Rose took on a second job to pay for her pug’s hip replacement.
And Christine Lewis says she dishes out more on her beagle than her friends do on their toddlers.
Far from it. But the three Dallas women are part of a growing legion of pet owners around the country choosing to invest in their [...]
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The state Legislature has pet owners barking up a storm once again.
Nearly a year after controversy stopped the mandatory spay and neuter bill in its tracks, the proposal is back, this time in a watered-down form that hasn’t ceased the “nanny-state” howls in Orange County and across the state.
While the original version of Assembly Bill [...]
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However, that’s exactly what Dexter, a four-and-a-half-month-old boxer, did at the Animal Rescue League’s Pets in the Park 2008 fundraiser held at Rockwood Park on Sunday.
He was the only dog dressed in a green recyclable shopping bag. The reason owner Andrew MacDonald dressed Dexter up was to enter the dog costume parade.
The idea for the [...]
The following knowledgeable industry leaders and scholars from Business Wire’s ExpertSource database are available to discuss topics relating to Pets II Cheryl Lang is founder and president of Houston-based No Paws Left Behind, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness to and finding solutions for the growing phenomena of “foreclosure pets.”
Lang is responsible for [...]
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A single rabies vaccination could have been enough to save the family dog last week. Instead, the pooch, lacking up-to-date shots, had to be euthanized following an attack by a rabid skunk.
The attack, last Thursday on Mountain City Road outside Damascus, marks the year’s first rabies case in Washington County, Va., according to the Sheriff’s [...]
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During a news conference tomorrow at the Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department in Greenbelt, Maryland, officials will offer lifesaving tips and cite a recent AKC study which indicates 88 percent of pet owners consider pets to be valued family members. They also will explain how home fire monitoring systems, in addition to smoke alarms, can better [...]
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Rock Island County Care and Control has experienced a 44 percent increase in owner surrenders in the last 30 days and those surrendering their pets for financial reasons rose 233 percent from the same period a year ago.
It’s obvious that the economic crunch has hit the Quad-Cities hard enough for many in Rock Island County [...]
With behavior-fixing drugs ubiquitous in the United States, it was only a matter of time before we started drugging our pets.
The New York Times Magazine goes soup-to-bones on this booming billion-dollar industry, founded on two sea-level cultural changes: a recognition that animals are not mechanistic bundles of instincts but feeling, thinking beings; and a readiness [...]
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