Boy With Cleft Lip Adopts Puppy With The Same Birth Defect
Sometimes there are friendships that are just meant to be. And a very special bond was formed when a 2-year-old boy from Michigan adopted a new best friend from the Jackson County Animal Shelter. While the pairing was very sweet in itself, what made it that bit more touching is the fact that both the young boy and his new puppy had something in common: they both were born with a cleft lip. The Jackson County Animal Shelter had previously stated in a Facebook post about the two best friends that the young boy, Bentley, had been born with the...
Stray Dog That Was Painted Like A Tiger And Released Onto The Streets Sparks Outrage
There is anger circulating over a stray dog who was painted to look like a tiger. The pictures were captured and shared online. The poor dog was a stray, wandering around the city without a collar and his fur was bright orange with black striping. Following the release of the images on social media, one Malaysian animal rights group began appealing to the public for information about who might be responsible for the dog’s cruel paint job. The Persatuan Haiwan Malaysia – Malaysia Animal Association uploaded the pictures to their...
Lost Puppy Reunited With Family After Kidnappers Tossed Her From A Moving Car
The cruelty of some people is simply astonishing. According to the police in Idaho, a State Police Trooper traveling on Interstate 84 was flagged down by a woman with a very shocking claim. The woman told police that she had witnessed a puppy actually getting chucked out of the window of a moving vehicle! According to a news report, the woman wasn’t able to give any information about the driver or their car, but she did pull over in order to stay with the puppy until help arrived. Speaking about the incident, Idaho State Police Cpl....
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: How your animal welfare organization can aid in disaster response, providing additional community services and more!
Below is a brief round-up of new blog posts and resources we’ve added over the past week. As a reminder, we’ve created an emergency fostering and COVID-19 webpage that we are updating regularly as new resources become available. You’re also invited to join the Emergency fostering during the Covid-19/coronavirus pandemic group on Maddie’s® Pet Forum where you can ask questions, share resources and more. #HassInAction: Dallas Animal Services gets creative to provide additional services to their communityDallas...
Seniors Helping Seniors
In order to help both the senior people and the homeless senior pets of our community, the Irvine Animal Care Center’s Seniors Helping Seniors program waives adoption fees for individuals age 62 and older when they adopt a senior animal. (Please note that other costs, such as licensing fees, may still apply depending on the animal adopted.) Many of our senior pets came from a nice home environment and were relinquished because their owners could no longer care for them. The stress of shelter life is often quite difficult for senior...
Rehoming Your Pet
Rehoming your pet should be easy and stress free both for you and your pet. Our experts at Adopt-a-Pet.com, the largest non-profit pet adoption website, with support from The Petco Foundation, have created a simple, reliable, free program to help you place your pet from your loving home directly to another. How It Works Rehoming your pet should be easy and stress free both for you and your pet. Our experts at Adopt-a-Pet.com, the largest non-profit pet adoption website, with support from The Petco Foundation, have created a simple, reliable,...
People Are Turning Retro TVs Into Trendy Cat Beds
Flat-screen television sets are the norm now and we cannot even remember the last time we saw one with a larger back. Even those of us who do not consider ourselves to be rich might have multiple flat screens in our homes. That just leaves us with one problem that needs to be taken care of: what do we do with our old and played out television sets? Fortunately, we are here to provide you with the answers that you need, in a timely manner. There’s no need to throw that television away and there aren’t a lot of places that are...
People Are Getting Custom Beds With A Built-In Pup Porch
If we allowed it, our dog would sleep in our bed every single night. She doesn’t seem to understand that she already has one of her own. There’s also a distinct possibility that she knows all about it but does not care. She takes up most of the room in our bed, so I only let her sleep in there if my husband is away on business. Putting all of that to the side, it is time to talk about this problem in a more in-depth manner. How can we solve this issue? Fortunately, there is one custom furniture company that has seen fit to assist...
Did You Find Kittens?
DID YOU FIND KITTENS? Follow these steps so that everyone is a winner! WAIT! Don’t move the kittens just yet! If the kittens are in a safe location it’s very possible that mom is out looking for food or hiding nearby watching over them. The kittens are safest with their mom at least until they are eating on their own. WATCH! To keep the kittens safe, keep an eye on them but don’t get too close as this may scare mom away. She should return in about 4 to 6 hours to feed and care for her kittens. Kittens do not need to be with...
#HassInAction: Dallas Animal Services gets creative to provide additional services to their community
Dallas Animal Services (DAS), a Tier 1 pilot shelter in the Human Animal Support Services (HASS) coalition, has recently created a few exciting tools that shows HASS in action. In this guest post, Leah Backo, Public Information Coordinator, shares three HASS examples to spark some inspiration for other animal welfare organizations. Created a COVID-19 pet resource guide. DAS recently teamed up with other local organizations and put together this guide to help families who are struggling to care for their pets because of COVID-19. The...
How your animal welfare organization can aid in disaster response
As many communities across the nation face devastating impacts from wildfires, hurricanes and so much more, animal shelters and rescue organizations are working to help their communities and the displacement of pets. If you haven’t already done so, we recommend watching the webcast recording, A Shelter’s Role in Disaster Response, from 2018 with Dr. Elise Gingrich. In this webcast, Dr. Gingrich prompts you to analyze your organization’s level of preparedness, makes you aware of what you need to consider for...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: Mobile veterinary care, why it’s important to encourage dissent when making changes and more!
Below is a brief round-up of new blog posts and resources we’ve added over the past week. As a reminder, we’ve created an emergency fostering and COVID-19 webpage that we are updating regularly as new resources become available. You’re also invited to join the Emergency fostering during the Covid-19/coronavirus pandemic group on Maddie’s® Pet Forum where you can ask questions, share resources and more. #HassInAction: Bringing veterinary care to meet families where they areOne thing that has been reinforced...
#HassInAction: Bringing veterinary care to meet families where they are
One thing that has been reinforced during COVID-19, is how powerful the transformational love of a pet is, especially during tough times. Animal welfare organizations all across the nation are shifting to a more community-centric model of animal sheltering. LifeLine Animal Project in Atlanta, GA, has focused on providing solutions to the community to help both pets and their people. With the community stepping up to foster and adopt their shelter animals, shelters have fewer animals in their care than previously. “This has opened...
Why it’s important to encourage dissent when making changes
“If you stand still, the bus is going to run you over,” said Joceyln Kessler in Change Can Be Fun! A Simple, Proven Framework Can Help Take the Pain Out of Change, a 2019 ASPCA Maddie’s® Cornell Shelter Medicine Conference session. Change is necessary, but doesn’t have to be painful. Often times it is a welcome change, but there is still an adjustment. The importance of being able to articulate the change you want in a couple of sentences is crucial. If you can’t...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: HASS in action supporting people and their pets, free mobile fundraising tool and more!
Below is a brief round-up of new blog posts and resources we’ve added over the past week. As a reminder, we’ve created an emergency fostering and COVID-19 webpage that we are updating regularly as new resources become available. You’re also invited to join the Emergency fostering during the Covid-19/coronavirus pandemic group on Maddie’s® Pet Forum where you can ask questions, share resources and more. Free mobile fundraising tool for your animal welfare organizationIs your organization looking for new ways to...
Free mobile fundraising tool for your animal welfare organization
Is your organization looking for new ways to fundraise? It’s safe to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted animal shelters and rescue organizations to pivot and evolve in all areas ranging from adoptions to operations – including fundraising. The pandemic has created economic uncertainty for many, so we thought we’d share this free fundraising tool for your organization to implement. ZOOMGIVE is a mobile fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit organizations simplify their fundraising. This...
HASS in Action: How one NC community rallied together to support people and their pets
As the Human Animal Support Services (HASS) project continues to drive positive change in the animal welfare industry to keep more people and pets together, we wanted to share the touching story, It Takes A Village Working Together: The story of Reverend Demitris Gonzalez. The story is told by Officer Caffray, a Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police Department (CMPD) Animal Control Officer in Charlotte, NC. Personal stories like this provide concrete examples of what the HASS model strives to accomplish – they provide...
Austin Animal Intake Response & HASS Updates
Jun 29, 2020 June 29th Last week, we shared news about the Human Animal Support Services project (HASS). HASS, a project is that, among other things, aims to create programming to better serve people and pets in many ways, much like social services for humans. We’ve seen some instances of lost pets being turned away at the municipal shelter and finders being recommended to turn those pets loose. This is NOT what we recommend and not part of our HASS guidance. One of the many goals of HASS is to help people who find stray pets quickly,...
HASS: The New Model of Animal Sheltering
Jun 19, 2020 Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been sharing the many changes we’ve made to our operations as a result of the virus and how the outpouring of community support for animals during quarantine has given us the opportunity to reimagine how a community supports its pets. We are thrilled to announce that a coalition of leaders from animal welfare organizations all across the country, including Austin Pets Alive!, has just launched the Human Animal Support Services (HASS) project in 30 pilot cities. The project is led by...
Introducing Dog N’ Dash: Instantaneous Lifesaving
Jun 12, 2020 Meet Bertha: A shy, but sweet, dog with floppy ears and beautiful brown eyes. Bertha struggled to cope in her previous shelter. She became depressed, shut down, and fearful of people. As Coronavirus swept through the nation, the shelter could no longer provide the intensive care and attention Bertha needed and resorted to placing her on the euthanasia list. Thanks to Dog N’ Dash, Bertha’s story didn’t end there. COVID-19 took its toll on animal shelters everywhere. In response, Austin Pets Alive! developed and...
