Archive for the ‘Animal Rescue’ Category
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
My friend, photographer Douglas Sandberg, alerted me to a unique musical purrformance. CATcerto, a collaboration between Nora the Piano Cat and Lithuanian conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis is performed by the Klaipėda chamber orchestra, featuring piano soloist Nora the Cat:
Four-year old Nora is a prodigy by anyone's standards. From humble beginnings, baby ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Someone in San Francisco is looking out for elderly dogs. Sherri Franklin, the founder and executive director of Muttville, started the organization in 2007 to find homes and provide foster care or hospice for abandoned senior and special-needs dogs.
Many of these old dogs end up in shelters because their ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
July 19-25, 2009, is Best Friends Week, marking the 25th anniversary of the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS). The mission of Best Friends can be summed up in one phrase: No More Homeless Pets. The organization is a grassroots network of people and groups that care for and about animals.
In ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Rasa sent me this email the other day, about a newborn baby deer that was rescued during the night, after its mother was killed by a car:
Hi Everyone,
Late in the evening a friend knocked on our door with a newborn baby deer in her arms, not more than an hour ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Four year-old Daniel Blair of Northolt, Middlesex, England, decided to give his one-week old puppy a bath after a muddy excursion in the garden. The problem is that Daniel washed the puppy in the toilet, and then flushed. The hapless pooch vanished down the pipe.
The boy's mother, Allison Blair, 40, ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has a new line of pet care products, the ASPCA Collection, available at Wal-Mart.
"With the introduction of the ASPCA Collection, Wal-Mart is taking another step in its commitment to help its customers save money and provide quality care to ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Popular radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has joined forces with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to battle animal cruelty. Mr. Limbaugh, who has a beloved cat named Punkin, speaks out for animals in two Public Service Announcements recorded for the HSUS.
Anti-Cruelty PSA #2
Faith Outreach - Animal ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Four months ago Sophie Tucker, a four-year-old blue heeler, was swept off a sailboat in rough seas off the coast of Australia. Jan Griffith, the dog's owner, had given her up for dead. The closest land was an island about five nautical miles away, and the waters were shark infested.
But ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
On August 11, 2008, CritterBlog published Dushku Kills Deer; PETA Kills Pets, which pointed out the abysmal record of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 2007, a year in which that organization euthanized over 90% of the animals in its care at its Virginia shelter. PETA is ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
About three weeks ago, Oprah Winfrey adopted Sadie, an 8-week old female Cocker Spaniel puppy, from PAWS Chicago, an animal shelter. Sadie had some litter mates, and Ms. Winfrey ended up adopting a male puppy, naming him Ivan.
Ivan died from the highly contagious parvovirus last week. Sadie also has the ...
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