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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Dogs tied to trees. Lizards in a child's room. Turtles in garages. All heart-wrenching victims of California's mortgage meltdown as homeowners abandon their pets, sometimes left behind locked doors as the foreclosure sign goes up. The measure provides bank employees with ...
Video Report - Pets being abandoned by cash-strapped owners
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Uncertain economic times mean animal shelters across the country are more crowded than ever, and in Kingsport the number of pets being taken to the shelter is on the rise. “Here in the past five months we have noticed our population ...
Pets may be latest victim of economy
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »"We always have a lot of abandonments; that is an ongoing problem because of the somewhat transient nature of the population here," said Jayne Vaughn, executive director of the Sevier County Humane Society Animal Shelter on Gnatty Branch Road in ...
To the ends of the Earth
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »A three-hour road trip to a resort run by local Aborigines is worth every bone-jarring minute, writes Esther Beaton. The silence is tense. The sand has been washed flat by the receding tide. The last rays of sunset create a vivid, many-hued backdrop to the ...
Animal rescue sweeps on Paris
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Paris Hilton is embroiled in a custody battle over her cat. The hotel heiress' pet feline Prada has been seized by animal rescue centre the Kris Kelly Foundation after Paris left the animal at the vets two weeks ago. Kelly - who collected the ...
Animal rescue sweeps on Paris
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Paris Hilton is embroiled in a custody battle over her cat. The hotel heiress' pet feline Prada has been seized by animal rescue centre the Kris Kelly Foundation after Paris left the animal at the vets two weeks ago. Kelly - who collected the ...
To the ends of the Earth
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »A three-hour road trip to a resort run by local Aborigines is worth every bone-jarring minute, writes Esther Beaton. The silence is tense. The sand has been washed flat by the receding tide. The last rays of sunset create a vivid, many-hued backdrop to the ...
