Shelter Dogs Can’t Wait To Spend Their First Thanksgiving In A Real Home
Thanksgiving is meant to be spent with family, but shelter dogs Finly, Lyla, and Grimm have never known the comfort or safety of having a home. These unlucky pups grew up in the South, where crowded shelters leave homeless pets at high risk of euthanasia. Complicating matters is Louisiana’s soaring rates of heartworm disease, which further decrease an infected animal’s chance of leaving the shelter alive. Shelter Pets Finly, Lyla, Grimm are flying to safety on our November 19 Flight to Freedom. Photo: Greater Good Charities This...
Woman Determined to Help Rescue Cat with Aggression Problem
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! I was visiting my cousin in Oregon, and while I was there I found a stray kitten. I scoured the neighborhood and local shelters trying to find his owners, but no one claimed him. A week passed and I decided he was going home to California with me. He was about two or three months old and already neutered. After a vet examination, it was concluded he was in very good health. I named him...
Dog With Horrific Neck Injury Found Abandoned At Oklahoma Park
WARNING: Graphic Image Ardmore Animal Shelter has been overwhelmed with intakes over the past few weeks. They have taken in over 200 animals in 11 days. But they didn’t hesitate to help a schnauzer found abandoned with a severe neck wound in Walker Park. Jet, as he has been named by staff, was found in a crate in the park and brought to the shelter by a good Samaritan. He arrived starving and with a horrific neck injury. “His injuries are consistent with a possible rubber band around the neck or intentional injury; it is not of a...
15 Austin FC Honorary Mascots Found Homes!
Nov 17, 2021 Austin FC approached Austin Pets Alive! in 2020 with an innovative partnership opportunity. For the first time, an MLS team would feature adoptable shelter dogs as the Honorary Mascots for home matches. This unique opportunity showcases the shared core values of Austin FC and Austin Pets Alive! and we are excited to announce that fifteen Austin FC Honorary Mascots were adopted and will no longer be sleeping in kennels at the shelter. [embedded content] Geraldine, Oso, Marmalade, Candy, Heidi, Missy, Corn, Peanut, Leon, Sunshine,...
Lost Dog? Volunteer Pet Detectives Are on the Case—From the Comfort of Home
“Most of my time my free time is spent on social media,” says Tucson resident Tanya Gutierrez. Universal story, right? Only while so many of us are idly scrolling, Tanya is online with a serious purpose as a volunteer pet detective with Pima Animal Care Center‘s Lost and Found program. Tanya and her dog Harry. When not volunteering as a pet detective, Tanya likes to walk, hike, and foster dogs. Tanya has been volunteering as a pet detective for about five years (through PACC, and with another non-affiliated group that...
Florida Black Bear With Head Stuck In Plastic Container For A Month Is Finally Freed
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) shared on Facebook that the black bear spotted a month ago with a plastic container on her head has been freed. Officials responded as soon as they received the first report of the female black bear in trouble, but she disappeared before they could help her. “Our bear biologists, law enforcement, and bear contractors set traps and monitored the area in an effort to remove the container, but after only two sightings, the bear was not seen again for over three weeks,” wrote...
How to enhance your dog’s learning ability
Improving your dog’s well-being through things like bodywork, diet, and quality time enhances her learning ability – and her quality of life! Do you have the power to enhance your dog’s learning ability? The short answer is “yes”! While some breeds such as border collies and German shepherds have a reputation for being the “smartest” canines, the truth is that all dogs are capable of retaining and applying a lot more knowledge than you might think. And we can sharpen their intelligence even further!...
3 Games to Play to Help with Dogs Who Steal
Is your dog a sock burglar and are you constantly waiting for him to pull his next big heist? Has your dog turned his post-crime caper into a game he plays with you, chasing him around the house trying to get him to let go of a stolen treasure, like the Keystone Cops? It doesn’t have to be that way. There are games you can teach your thieving pup that are also preventable security measures in themselves, so these alternative behaviors become part of our lives together instead of caper after caper. Check out these three games. Always...
Dog Mistakes Pool Thermometer For A Toy
There is just something about the way that a dog will stick to the task at hand. It’s like they cannot (or will not) be deterred by the types of issues that would bother the average person. Their level of determination simply won’t be matched. Most animals would never ever dare to try. Most cats would never stick with something like this for as long as the dog you are about to meet. Gandja is a bull terrier who has a very special relationship with the pool in question. Like most dogs, Gandja likes to believe that this is their...
“Crazy” Dog No One Wanted Finds Family Who Can’t Get Enough Of Him
Life on the streets can be hard for a dog, but so can life in a shelter. Many dogs aren’t cut out for life in a cement cage, with little socialization or exercise. When dogs don’t adjust well to life in a shelter, it can be even harder for them to find adoptive homes because they may exhibit poor behaviors. That was the case for a stray bully named Tuggy. The poor pup had been picked up by police and had so much energy, he couldn’t contain himself in a kennel. When Tuggy was found, he had red, prolapsed glands in both of his...
