Foster families give pets new lease on life
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Home foreclosures and broader economic woes have led to a higher-than-normal number of pets being dropped off at Valley shelters, according to officials with the Arizona Animal Welfare League, a non-profit organization that runs the state's largest no-kill shelter. Paige Krakoski's ...
Shedding some light
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »"Pets can be amazing best friends and confidantes. And if, as a kid, you're sent to your room, it's easier to do it with a pet around." With child obesity rates at alarming highs, pets can also be a great way ...
RSPCA tells schools ‘no pets’
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »The classroom guineapig faces extinction if schools follow new advice from the RSPCA urging an end to the tradition of taking the natural world into schools. School pets may be harmed by constant touching from excited pupils and poor living conditions, ...
Playwrights for Pets to Present Gay-Themed In the Rainbow Benefit June 9
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »Playwright for Pets will present In the Rainbow an evening of gay-themed plays for adults June 9 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The performance, which benefits Animal Haven, will include works by Jim Dalglish, Carolyn Gage, David Johnston, Barbara Kahn, ...
Pets out as money woes bite hard
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »Rising numbers of owners are surrendering their beloved family pets because they can't afford to keep them. In the past six months there has been a 50 per cent rise the number of dogs surrendered because their owners cannot afford to ...
Foreclosure Pets Program Selects First 10 Shelters
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »An increase in the number of surrendered or abandoned pet cats and dogs as a result of nationwide home foreclosures has spilled over into animal shelters, and new requests for the Foreclosure Pets Grant Program keep rolling in. The program, launched ...
Activists want pets rescued from volcano
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Help is on the way for hundreds of household pets left behind in the wake of a volcano eruption in southern Chile, an animal welfare group said Saturday. The Coalition for Ethical Control of Urban Fauna, which has been critical of ...
Activists Require Pets in Chile Be Rescued
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Although the population near the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile has been evacuated, the pets were left behind. The Coalition for Ethical Control of Urban Fauna didn’t accept the situation and requested that the pets be rescued as well. “They ...
Poetic licence to save pets
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »THE copyright on one of Australia's greatest poems is up for sale to fund an animal welfare group on the state's Far North Coast. Kenneth Slessor's Five Bells, in which the poet muses on a drowning in Sydney Harbour, is being ...
RSPCA reveals ‘dark side’ of its work
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »A new RSPCA advertising campaign will show the organisation doesn't just deal with the cute and fluffy - it's also involved in combating domestic violence and torture of pets. The documentary-style series of ads, on television and in print media in ...
