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August 2005 ArchivesDenise Einkauf and her hubby out in Fulshear are about to open their Waggin Tails Pet Ranch - and they have A LOT of space for evacuee animals. However, they need someone to put up some gates on their 4' x 8' air conditioned runs as soon as possible. They will pay! If you know of anyone who does some fence work and can get out there quickly, please call Denise at 832-875-3621 or her husband Derek at 832-875-3617. ...I will email individually all of the wonderful people who have come forward to offer temporary housing for animals, but I wanted to get this posted first: I have just spoken with the CEO of Houston's Red Cross Chapter about the best way to contact evacuees who need shelter for their animals. He has asked me to email him a list of people who have space available, and he will forward that to all the local Red Cross shelters, who will be able to distribute that information to evacuees. So... if you have not already emailed me about temporary animal boarding, please do so at lforonda@khou.com. Let me know h... I am getting pleas from shelters for supplies. Here's what you can do to help: SUPPLY DRIVE AT SCRUB-A-DUB DOG WASH The HSPCA needs:
Newspaper ... I wanted to let everyone know about KHOU's Spirit of Texas Hurricane Relief Drive that's going on all day today. We've teamed up with the Red Cross and local businesses to help fund the rebuilding effort out east on the Gulf Coast. You can participate by calling us at 713-284-8877 until seven tonight. You can also donate directly to the Red Cross (1-800-HELP-NOW) and the Salvation Army (1-800-SAL-ARMY). Those links are VERY busy, by the way... I've just received an email from Citizens for Animal Protection. They've taken 27 of the Louisiana cat evacuees from the Houston SPCA. HSPCA is trying to find more humane organizations to take on some of the 263 animals brought in by Louisiana's SPCA late early Monday morning. CAP has its Cajun cats in its education room, and says these "southern belles and gentlemen" are ready for adoption. You can reach them at their website or give them a call at 281-... I went for my daily run into downtown Houston this morning, and I was on the lookout for dogs. I'd read this article in the Houston Chronicle that many of our hotels were relaxing their rules on pet guests, and that dogs were padding around. What a crazy sight. I felt like I was in New York for a dog show. There were dogs and their owners all over downtown, walking around outside the hotels. I stopped outside the Hilton Ameri... Here's something that will hopefully put a smile on your face: two more twin pandas were born at in China yesterday. Their mother is Hua Mei, the first panda born in the Western hemisphere at the San Diego Zoo back in 1999. My husband and I saw her when she was just over two years old, when we visited San Diego for a marathon back in 2001. Hua Mei was returned to China in 2004 to enable that country to continue its panda conservation efforts. It certainly looks as if Hua Mei is doing her part! ... First off, I apologize about the sporadic website trouble. Our network, all across all of our Belo TV stations is up and down, because of high website traffic with Katrina. Here at KHOU, it's all hands on deck. Even though the Houston area isn't getting any real weather affects from Hurricane Katrina, we have been caring for many of its refugees - both human and animal. One of our sister stations, WWL-TV in New Orleans, moved to the campus of LSU to continue their coverage. We are also doing our best to share our resources with them to help them cover the story and ge... I am remiss in forgetting to blog about something I've done just about every year since I've been here: The Houston SPCA's annual telethon. I was there for two hours, showing off some lovely dogs and cats with special guest host Frank of TLC's Trading Spaces - who, himself, owns cats, dogs, and >> Continue reading: The Houston SPCA's annual telethon  My sister told me I was forgetting about the panda cub at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. He's a big plump boy who just opened his eyes yesterday. You can also watch him and Mom on a pandacam here. ...You're not supposed to have your dog off leash in public places in the city of Houston, unless you're inside a dog park. I didn't realize how many parks were open (and more are opening) across the Houston area, until I headed over to the Houston Dog Park Association's web page. I counted eight parks already completed, with three more in the design and construction stages. HDPA's site is comprehensive, giving you directions, photos, and information about area dog parks. It also has great tips about ... How do you stitch up a tortoise? You use fiberglass, of course! I didn't know that, but some very innovative veterinarians in San Francisco did: they patched up a desert tortoise after removing four bladder stones from his belly.
I had to steal this headline from the Chron, because it really summed up what Houston Police had been doing earlier this week: a city-wide coordinated crackdown on people wanted for domestic abuse or child abuse. They caught 31 people in the pre dawn raids and had promised to pick up even more. This is all in conjunction with the City of Houston's "Men Against Family Violence" Campaign. There have been 19 family violence related deaths this year, compared with 14 during th... Four years ago, my hubby and I were in San Diego and had the opportunity to visit the zoo. The main attraction I wanted to see there was the young panda, Hua Mei. The pandas there are "on loan" from China as part of the research to help Chinese Pandas continue to thrive in the wild there. We ran the following story last night on our 10 o'clock newscast about dangerous or biting dogs and the legal issues involved. Here is a link to Dave Fehling's piece. You can also watch the actual story here. ...Is your dog the love of your life? Write a song about your relationship, and you could win some big bucks in this Cottonelle Contest.. ...From Amy Vandivere, one of my readers... a concise report on bills in the Texas Legislature concerning animals. This is merely a summary. If you'd like more detailed information, you can head to this website and search for the bills' outcomes in the 79th Regular Session of 2005. All commentary and summaries are from Amy: -HB 326 and SB 172 were our bills trying to close the loopholes and strengthen the animal cruelty statute and as reported earlier, these bills were killed in committee. This was forwarded to me by one of our production assistants, who's a member of the Southwest Alternate Media Project.. This Saturday, the Cinema at Rice University will be screening Rescue Me, a 40 minute documentary about the people who take foster animals into their homes. Here's information about the film I snipped from its website: After learning that over 20,000 animals are euthanized in Austin, Texas every year, Stacy Schoolfield volunteered to foster abandoned animals in her home. ... From the Associated Press.... GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) -- A stalking foray atop a power pole left a lucky feline jolted, frizzled and dazed but otherwise OK after he fell off the 40-foot pole and sparked a fire outside a fire house. The frazzled cat was discovered when paramedic-firefighters Andrew Chrzanowski and Jeremy Hall responded to the fire Wednesday morning after the lights went out at the Topaz Ranch Estates fire house. "When we got the fire knocked down we saw this burned cat close to the base of the pole," Hall said. They assumed it was dead ... My husband and I are training for the Marine Corps Marathon, and we slumped in chairs on our porch after we'd finished this morning's long run, trying to cool down after sweating like crazy in Houston's heat. As we gratefully pulled off our shoes and socks, who should come galloping out but Indy, our Golden, who knew a bonanza had just been dropped on to the ground.. ... Kathy brought him to a vet specialist in Tampa, where they nicknamed the stray "Archer." Surgery successfully removed the arro... I love this story, because whenever an animal is in danger, we can always depend on the fire department to come to the rescue!
Beginning December 1st, animal owners in Galveston county will have a new option for low cost spaying and neutering. The Animal Alliance of Galveston County and Saving Animals Across Borders have teamed up to open a "super neuter" facility in La Marque. Both groups purchased a veterinary clinic at 608 Bayou Road. The building is being remodeled now, and when it's completed, it will offer low cost sterilization and wellness services for animal owners in Galveston, League City, Texas City, Baytown and La Marque. You c... Here's a tidbit I'll leave you with tonight, as I get ready for the 10pm news: There was a house fire in Atascocita today. No one was home, so no humans were hurt - and neither were the pets. A kind hearted neighbor rushed in to bring them out to safety. ...I have to gripe a moment, so please bear with me.. I have a friend who told me recently that he'd gotten a pit bull puppy. He had bought a book about raising it, and was very determined to be a responsible pet owner. I told him part of being a responsible pet owner included neutering his dog. But he still hasn't been able to make a commitment. ...Do you have a dog? Are you wondering about obedience training, microchipping, or the best way to take care of him? Maybe you're part of a rescue organization or a breeder, and you want to get the word out about your favorite breed of dog. Do you and your dog participate in agility or flyball competitions? Would you help teach other people how to get involved? Jessica Logan, with Loving Spots Dalmatian Rescue has worked hard to organize a local celebration of The American Kennel Club's Responsible D... FYI: If you're a regular reader - and I hope you are! - you may be interested in when I usually post new stuff. I get to work around 2 every day, so you'll see the posting start to trickle in from then through the end of the late news at 10:30. Also, there is an easier website address to remember for this blog. You can also type in http://www.baileyindy.com and you'll get here, too. ...I've been getting lot of email from this group of energetic volunteers in Brookshire. The Zeke Fund formed nearly a year ago, after a stray there was hit by a car. He was taken to the Brookshire pound in stayed there for four days before an animal rescuer took him out the vet. Zeke's injuries were so severe (broken back, pelvis, legs) he had to be humanely euthanized. Just a few weeks later, the Zeke fund formed to help rebuild the Brookshire pound, and to help get its animals adopted. I received an email from a woman trying to help two dogs she's spotted living in the woods near the airport on Greens Road. Heather has been feeding them, but is hoping for a happy ending. Here's what she's written to me: I originally found them dodging cars running across a busy road trying to find food in some trash bags that had blown into the street. I got out of my car and some people in a nearby apartment complex started SCREAMING at me from their balconies. They wanted me to get the hell out of there and let the dogs die. I was... The good people who volunteer with Friends of the Galveston County Animal Shelter wanted me to post this: All over the country last this coming Saturday night, animal shelters will be participating in a candlelight vigil to remember the hundreds of thousands of dogs and cats in shelters that will be killed because of pet overpopulation. The Friends of Shelter will be participating with a gathering at the Galveston County Animal Shelter in Texas City. Everyone is invited to light a candle and learn about what they can do to stop the flood of animal over... I'm trying to track who is reading the Animal Attraction blog, and I need your help. See the list of links on the right side of the page - the Pet Calendar, Rescue Groups, and so on? There's a new addition: Who's visiting Animal Attraction? Click on that link, and you'll be taken to a map of the Houston area. You can move the map around and zoom in until you find YOUR exact location. Double click on it,... Joey Sabala is one lucky kid. The six year old was attacked this weekend by a neighbor's dog - an 80 pound German Shepherd-Lab mix, that had somehow escaped from his yard. I'm sorry to leave work this Friday with a sad story, but we're running this in our 10 o'clock newscast tonight, and I wanted to post it. A man in California was caught on a surveillance camera at a carwash, running over a killing dozens of ducks that lived at a nearby pond. He's even seen getting out of his car, chasing down some ducklings and grabbing them by the neck. The car wash employees are understandably disturbed and upset. 10 of the 30 ducks died. The family has been there since the 70s, the descendants of an original pair of ducks someone dropped off near the car wash all those years ago. This one's out of Vermont: passengers on board a tour boat spot a dog paddling in the water with no one in sight. Someone calls the captain, who stops the boat to rescue the swimming dog. While an Elvis impersonator called for calm, the boat's bartender and the engineer plucked the pup out of the water. You can read the entire story here.  Yes, this will even stop traffic in New York City. This big old boy is named "Speedbump," an >> Continue reading: Big hearts in strange places I received a nice invite in the mail this week that I wanted to share: Houston PetSet, a relatively new organization of animal-friendly folks, is having its third annual Soiree on September 17th at Cafe Artista at the Hobby Center. Proceeds from membership dues and special events area non-profit animal agencies. It's a nice group. Check out their website for more information. ...From yesterday's post about dogs that are tied outside to dogs who are ridiculously pampered. This requires a bit of reader participation: Hello again! I'm back from a vacation in Jamaica. A dear friend of mine was getting married, so I was happy to have an "excuse" to soak in some beautiful Carribean sunshine! However, I was not looking forward to seeing stray animals. I figured I probably would, and I boarded the bus from the airport to the hotel with trepidation. I did see several dogs running around homes and the streets - all mutts. I was also unhappy when we drove by the "Swim with the Dolphins" attraction. Those bug me. According to the Humane Society of the US, >> Continue reading: Animals in Jamaica I'll be out of pocket for the next few days, so no blogging until Monday. Keep sending your info to petevents@baileyindy.com. Thanks for all of your support! ...
OK, folks. I need your help! I received an email from a little girl in Virginia. She has lost her dog, Zach. He's a lab/border collie mix.
A horrible fire at senior living facility in Montgomery County overnight left dozens of people homeless and four people injured - one of them is critical. My hearts go out to them. I can't begin to imagine how difficult it must be to lose everything - and it was made even more traumatic by the loss of their pets. Firefighters tell us one cat died in the blaze, but some very good hearted samaritans stepped in to make sure the other animals would be OK. People who work in shelters who are doing just that? I still can't believe this story we're doing on 11 News at 5 today: One of the public works supervisors in Jourdanton, Texas (about 40 miles southwest of San Antonio) is in trouble for ordering city employees to drown six stray dogs at the city sewer plant. Yes, read that again: DROWNED IN THE CITY SEWER PLANT. It gets worse: the supervisor, Chantan Morin, apparently did it to save money. I've received another email from llama owner Brian Bennick. The award to find the llama killers I blogged about in an earlier post. Someone called him last night and added more money to the reward fund, which is now up to $1500. The Houston SPCA and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department exhumed the llamas' bodies to recover the bullet evidence. The are hoping this will give them some solid leads.. ... |
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