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January 2006 Archives ownership of big cats & other exotics courtesy: IFAW/A. Sullivan Today the U.S. Fish & Wildlife...
Bill Ansell is worried to death about his dog, who was stolen, along with his truck, last week. Here are the details from Bill: The absolute saddest part is that my dog, Shot, was in the kennel in the back. I am sick about it and am praying for his return. The police feel like the thief would probably have let the dog go when he figured out there was a dog in the back. We, of course, have no way of knowing where (if) the thief let... A reader sent this website to me: Cuteoverload.com. As if the name weren't enough warning, be warned! This site is sweeter than an Easter Basket doused with chocolate syrup and whipped cream.. ...
I'd wager.. Japan. You may want to bet, as well, after you see this story from CNN. Please disable your popup blockers, or else you won't be able to watch the story. ...I used to love bringing my dog Bailey into work with me. Unfortunately, someone complained about people bringing their dogs into work.. and now, work is a NO DOG ZONE. Can you take your dog to work? Would you like to? I've been emailed this new job search website that lets you search for jobs that are DOG FRIENDLY. Simplyhired.com has this website. It teamed up with Dogster.com to set this up, and to take a survey of dog owners with the results: What dog owners would do if allowed to bring their dog to wor... It's not my headline - it's from Helping Animals, which has a disheartening follow up to the city workers in Jourdanton, Texas, accused of drowning shelter dogs by dropping their cages into the sewer plant. Here's my original post from last fall. Today, however, no charges have been filed. ...Dogs biting mailmen might sound cliche', but it's a real problem. The National Association of Letter Carriers says an average of 10 carriers are injured in dog related incidents daily. A female mail carrier was bitten today in Northeast Houston. You can watch the video from our 5PM newscast here. It happened in the 38-hundred block of Collingsworth in northeast Houston. The victim was bitten on her hands and legs, and the dog's owner was cited for letting the dog run lose, ...
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(CBS) SPANISH FORK, Utah -- A family in Spanish Fork, Utah says they wouldn't have believed it if they didn't see it with their own eyes; the family pig being a mother to two Border collie puppies. The Bosley family says t...  Mature females of the Paedocypris progenetica, a member of the carp family, only grow to 7.9 millim...  A stingray is right a...  From Best Friends and its Dogtown sanctuary: Everybody needs a friend, no matter what their size. When new dogs come to Best Friends we know they need a buddy, but we also know that the best buddies have hearts in common and not always stature!
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"Maggie", Alaska Zoo's elephant - loves her game of catch, but needs more exercise. However, her infamous treadmill isn't ready yet. Maggie needs to walk more but her treadmill is still being worked on. It should be ready in another couple weeks. Last September, workers at the Alaska Zoo i... From Sean Hawkins of Saving Animals Across Borders: Please help us raise $76,000 so Saving Animals Across Borders can purchase a modular building for the opening of the new spay & neuter clinic at the city animal shelter in Houston (BARC). Visit Saving Animals to order your wristband online today. Each wristband costs just $5, or you can purchase 100 for $100 for your own fundraising campaign. All proceeds will help us help Houston's animals now!... Updating this blog post, with concerns that the killings of 33 dogs and cats in St. Bernard Parish was no longer a priority for the Louisiana State Attorney's office. From Pasado Safe Haven: We're happy to report that we've heard from the Louisiana State Attorney's Office and with good news. The investigation into the for them, as we learned in this e-mail: "My name is Emma J. DeVillier, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, work... A reader wanted an update on this.. here's what we ran at 5.. An Eisenhower High School student was in court today trying to keep a goat he's accused of beating. Jerraud Routte was supposed to be grooming the goat for an upcoming livestock show. Today the judge said surveillance video purporting to show the beating was not compelling. And much of the tesimony from the county's only witness was ruled hear-say. We sent a camera crew to look at the goat for ourselves, but did not find any outward signs of serious wounds. The case will continue tomorrow. ...
Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a 120 yard-long rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means "meal" in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice. But i...
"As Houston has expanded, as you know, there's no zoning, there's a lot of true urban cowboys that have horses in their back yards and small stables dotted all over Houston," said Darolyn Butler, stable owner. Horses have ridden the roads of Texas as long as there's been a Texas. But sometimes, as they trot t... The parents of Toga - the infant penguin whose disappearance last month was followed around the world - have laid a new egg, zookeepers said Monday.
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A cute, friendly female black l... MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- No love lost in a case of an Arkansas animal shelter owner convicted of cruelty. Dozens of people burst into applause as Tammy Hanson was handcuffed in the courtroom. She and her husband William have been convicted on 20 counts, including abusing dogs sent from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Police who searched the Hanson's shelter found one dog dead, another with a broken leg, and many others who were sick or suffering from severe skin problems. The shelter is called "Every Dog Needs a Home." The couple will be sentenced February 23rd. In the meantime, t...
 faces the judge An Aldine High School student is facing charges of animal cruelty, accused of abusing a goat he was supposed to be grooming for an upcoming livestock show. The FFA barn at Eisenhower High School is a peaceful place, which houses animals that students are raising to show. Things got te...
A reader left a comment today, wondering what had happened to Max, the cat that had been shot through with an arrow (the original post is here). I checked with Animal Rescue New Orleans, and here is the sad update posted on its website:
Poor Max had made it so far so it is incredibly unfair to see him go. He survived 2 hurricanes, flooding and being shot comple...
Man's best friend proved to be a life-saver for an Indiana man who had a diabetic episode. Bill Burns of Centerton was on his nightly stroll recently with his dogs Butch and Dusty when he passed out in a cornfield. He says what happened next is incredible. Dusty stretched out across Burns as if to keep him wa... One of the saddest animal stories to come out of Hurricane Katrina was the violent shooting deaths of the dogs left behind in a school in St. Bernard Parish. Here is one of the posts I had up back in October. Pasado Safe Haven and other animal groups had teamed up to offer a huge reward to find the killers. However, the shootings appear to have fallen off the radar. Pasado is still working to find some justice for the animals that were killed. Blog reader Mal...  Why, yes he has! I blogged about this handsome boy a few days ago. He'd been swiped from a Petsmart in Webster during an adoption event.
Amy Losh with Recycled Canines wrote in: Buck was picked up as a stray by League city animal control yesterday! He is n...
Two endangered whales were spotted Monday in the Corpus Christi Bay, well outside of their typical winter territory. (You can watch the story from our CBS affiliate, KZTV-TV in Corpus Christi, here) A tanker pilot reported the two Northern right whales, believed to be a mother and a calf, after he thought he may have hit one of them. “It’s an absolute mystery how they got here,” said Tony Amos, a research fellow at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. Amos spotted the ...
I received this from Fiona Crichton-Berner, who owns Seahorse Haven up in Sam Houston National Forest: We are losing so much of our riding area, it is so unfortunate. If you would like an alternative to Nails Creek , please contact me about my facility. I have plenty of parking and camping space, primitive at the moment but am about to install hookups, and the riding is wonderful. By April we will have four 15 mile loops plus many other smaller ones....
The Greater Houston Horse Council has been very concerned about the city's new ordinance preventing people from riding horses on city medians or esplanades. The group held a meeting tonight with a representative from Mayor White's office to air their concerns. Here is the letter GHHC sent to Mayor White: Dear Mayor White: On behalf of the owners of Greater Houston's 200,000 horses, I am inviting you to attend the next meeting of the Greater Houston Horse Council. We are an umbrella organization of horse owners whose goal... One of our foster dogs was STOLEN on Saturday from the Petsmart in Webster, TX. We assume that this dog will eventually need to go to the vet, so we hope to get it posted at as many vet offices as possible so that they will recognize the dog when it comes in. PLEASE HELP!!!! The dog has a crooked jaw, so he shou...
Houston's Animal Protection Task Force Report covered the city and county shelters, as well as the area's three largest non-profit shelters, CAP, HSPCA, and the Houston Humane Society. I received this reponse from HHS via email today: Dear Mayor White, Ms. Smith and Ms. Gondo (members of the Animal Protection Task Force)-
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma police are on the lookout for a lizard that was stolen from the Oklahoma City Zoo last Friday. Police are looking for a Chuckwalla lizard taken from the zoo's Lizard Exhibit. Zookeepers believe the lizard was stolen because this particular species cannot jump or climb. The Chuckwalla lizard is a native of a small island in the Sea of Cortez. The lizard is a federally listed endangered species. The Oklahoma City Zoo has three Chuckwallas, one male and two females. The missing lizard is a female and is a foot long and is tan in color and has black spots. If... If not for the family cat, one Oklahoma family could have been killed in a house fire. Janelle Berry and two other family members were just falling asleep when their family cat, Sonic, kept running from her bedroom to the other side of the house. Janelle said Sonic kept making bizarre sounds that she had never heard before. She finally got out of bed to check on everything, when she noticed smoke in the house. Everyone was able to get out of the house safely, but for some reason Sonic ran back into the burning home. The family watched as the fire destroyed the home and the roof collapsed.... In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who passionately worked for justice, Saving Animals will host a Social at BARC on MLK Day, Monday, January 16, 2006, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Again, we will walk dogs, groom cats and share with the animals OUR dream of a better world for them. As BARC will be closed in observance of the holiday, we will enter through the back entrance from Evella off of Jensen. Just take I-59 to Collingsworth and go west to Jensen, then south to Evella (turn west). I will have several collars, leashes, treats and grooming tools, but feel free to bring more if you like. We wi...
Thanks to one of our commenters, "Fred," who brought this to my attention. The City of Houston has posted the Animal Protection Task Force report, as well as the Mayor's response. You can see both here. Here are a few of the suggestions made by the task force, and the Mayor's responses: 1. Increasing adoptions and reducing euthanasia rates in area shelters "We would suggest that the best way to develop such a plan is through a community-based task force consisting of public employees, private sh... This email was forwarded to me, and it originated with Debra Barlow, the president and animal cruelty investigator for Hopeful Haven, an equine rescue organization in Shreveport, Louisiana. It contains some pretty graphic pictures of the horse that was abused, so I'm not actually posting them here. If you want to see them click >> Continue reading: Horrible horse cruelty case goes to court  be... From the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram: EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) -- A basement remodeling project left Jany Chumas with one question after the drywalling was done - where's Mary Poppins? Chumas' pet cat was nowhere to be found after the workers installed drywall in a room Jan. 2. Chumas said the cat is "the sweetest little thing but quite shy," so she assumed at first that she had run away. As more time passed, she suspected the cat could be trapped, and she and her daughter headed for the basement to search. "I called her - 'Here, ki... There are reports from animal welfare volunteers still working there.. Here's the latest from Brenda Shoss of Animal Rescue New Orleans: It was a day like any other, except for the flash of hot, sharp pain. A rainbow-colored arrow ripped through the cat's body, shredding his gallbladder, spleen, lung, intestines, and nearly every organ except his heart. Bewildered, the cat staggered to his feet with an arrow protruding from either side of his body. I can't keep up with the good news coming from Best Friends in New Orleans. There's a smorgasbord of updates for you to read here. ...They thought he was gone forever... but one Nebraska family's cat came back. More than a year ago the Tighe family lost their home when it was hit by an F-4 tornado. Their cat Harley disappeared during the destruction and everyone assumed the worst. Then, just a few days ago, Harley showed up at the door of their now rebuilt home.
BLACK AND WHITE... After nearly a year of looking into Houston's main animal shelters (BARC, Harris County Animal Control, CAP, HSPCA, and the Humane Society), a task force, appointed by Houston Mayor Bill White, paints a gloomy picture for animals that are turned into local shetlers. The following quote from today's Houston Chronicle article sums it up: "It is essential to shatter the widespread illusion that turning a pet into a Houston shelter means putting him up for adoption, when the truth is that the pet will most likely be killed," the (task force) report says... A friend forwarded this new website to me: Pets911.com. It looks like a pretty comprehensive one-stop shopping site for all things pet related, from adoption to emergencies to locating pet-friendly rental properties by zip code. Here's a tidbit from Pets911.com's mission statement and purpose: To effect social change in this country by providing a free public service that will one day ensure an environment where all animals are valued companions and have lifetime, loving homes. This free network, which is a collaborative effort of all th...
Puppies are popping up everywhere amid the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina. Animal welfare workers are seeing the tip of what they fear will be a big boom in dog births in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi hammered by the storm. Officials say more than 6,000 pets were saved in the region after Katrina came ashore Aug. 29, and many of them were relocated to new homes elsewhere in the country. It's unknown how many drowned in the floodwaters or died later of injuries. Read more here on KHOU.com. ...From Best Friends - who've been in the Gulf region helping Katrina animals since the storm came through. The group has one more plea in this final push to adopt out Katrina rescuees: Dear Members and Friends, Back in November, a Best Friends assessment of Greater New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast concluded that while most official rescue efforts had ended, there were still thousands of displaced pets roaming the region. Thousands of you signed a petition urging all of us among the national humane groups to work together to rescue as many of these dogs a... Remember the dolphins that spent the night in a hotel pool during Hurricane Katrina, only to be washed out into the Gulf? They were eventually rescued, and now they're being shipped to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas: Sixteen dolphin evacuees from Hurricane Katrina are on their way to their new home in a luxury resort in the Bahamas. The dolphins used to live at a marine park in Gulfport, Mississippi. Eight were moved to hotel pools ahead of the storm. Eight others were pulled out to sea when ... From the Houston Chronicle: The thin, brown and white pit bull puppy in cage 64 was seconds away from becoming a sad statistic, one of thousands of animals euthanized at Houston's animal shelter last year. Animal control officers found him wandering the streets — sans tags — on the northwest side of Houston. When they got to the shelter at 3200 Carr, they scanned his lean body for a microchip, but found nothing. Then, a few days later, just before he was scheduled to be euthanized, kennel workers scanned the dog again. This time, they got a hit that saved the p... From Lew Olsen of Friends of the American Rottweiler Club: Hurricane Katrina resulted in many tragedies, including thousands of homeless dogs. Sometimes though, good things can result from even the worst misfortune. One of these dogs, Zoey, a Rottweiler, made her way from a shelter to the Friends of the American Rottweiler Club on September 26th. Zoey is approximately 18 months old and had recently lost a litter of puppies through a miscarriage. Both of her eyes were severely infected and she appeared to have damage to her face from being struck on the head....
VOORHEES, N.J. (AP) -- Curiosity didn't kill one cat on a wild ride on the New Jersey Turnpike. The kitten, now known, for obvious reasons, as Miracle, hitchhiked a ride on the underbelly of a sport utility vehicle just before Christmas. The gray and white f...
Five months after Katrina, Best Friends is bringing us a New Year's update on its operations in Tylertown.. Read more about it here. ...Animal Rescue New Orleans is looking for volunteers to help feed stray animals still surviving after Katrina, as well as food to continue its program. More information here. ...
Watch the video here Two polar bears from Brookfield Zoo in suburban Chicago were shipped to the Memphis Zoo Wednesday. Two-year-old Payton and three-year-old Haley were flown to Memphis as part of a breeding program. The bears will be a main attraction in the Memphis Zoo's new $23 million-dollar 'Northwest P... The Houston Zoo will sing Happy Birthday Saturday to Bonita and Fabio, a pair of maned wolves. The unique breed is the most solitary of the world's wolves.
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