Update to our story on Andrea, the cat who survived being gassed twice at Utah’s West Valley City shelter. A group of volunteers from the shelter, led by the rescue group CAWS (Community Animal Welfare Society), asked the city council to get rid of the gas chamber altogether. The city council declined.
Check this out: An “unadoptable” pet gets gassed at the shelter, but survives and finds a home. So now they’re looking for better ways to kill the dogs and cats!
In 2005, Veterinary Economics reported that 40% of U.S. dogs are overweight. And according to a report from the National Academies’ National Research Council, 25% of pets in Western societies are obese. Our advice? Keep your dog moving.
Companion animals are playing a larger-than-ever role in psychotherapy, physical therapy and crisis response. And different kinds of animals have different roles.
Actor James Cromwell is about as passionate for animals as it gets. Ten years ago, he was even arrested during an animal rights protest in Fairfax, Virginia, at a Wendy’s and then ordered to stay out of all Wendy’s restaurants in Fairfax County Virginia unless he intends to eat there … which, one would imagine, he has no intention of doing.
Young Frankie Pruitt was sitting at home drinking hot chocolate, one morning eight years ago, when Petunia the pit bull raced out of the house and across the meadows with the family’s other dogs to visit the alpacas on the family’s Virginia farm. It was all part of the daily routine. No one took any notice.
People often refer to their pets as members of the family. As such, the pets are subject to many of the joys and tribulations of the household. Children and pets go through their own stages of development as do their parents and guardians. They bond and grow together, but not always harmoniously. We often hear of custody battles going on for years over who is responsible for the care of the child and under what conditions.
Soon after she adopted Princess the poodle, things started going wrong for psychic artist and color therapist Olga Horvat. Her husband had a car crash and came down with an auto-immune disease. Her daughter got expelled from school for bad behavior. And the apartment got bed bugs. Then poor Princess fell down the stairs and died.
Here’s an interesting video from the documentary Animals Like Us. This sure looks like much the same thing as humans keeping dogs as pets.
Tommassino was a stray cat when Maria Assunta took him home. When she died last month at the age of 94, Assunta left him $15 million – the entire family fortune.
Daniel, the dog who survived the gas chamber at an Alabama pound, made his first TV appearance on Anderson Cooper’s new daytime TV show
Israel’s parliament has made it a criminal offense to declaw cats unless the the procedure is medically necessary or if a person can prove they would have a medical problem if scratched.
The patient was a dog, the doctor was Walter F. Burghardt, and the diagnosis: Post-Traumatic Stress.
Most cats, he says, will eventually come down themselves. And since they went up the tree to get away, they’re unlikely to come down when you call them, and will likely just go up higher when someone tries to climb up to them.
How some police and firefighters in El Cajon, CA, spent three hours on Thanksgiving Day.
Gail Collins simply can’t turn down any opportunity to remind us of the time Mitt Romney strapped the family dog to the roof of the station wagon for the 12-hour family trek from Boston to Canada.
Note to NYC’s Dept. of Health: You’re more likely to catch something from other guests at the Algonquin Hotel than from Matilda the cat. The city agency has “reminded” the hotel that “pets in food-service facilities” are not allowed — and the Algonquin serves food in its lobby.
Seems like all the expensive PR in the world can’t raise footballer Michael Vick out of the pits of public opinion. According to a new poll from Forbes magazine: