It’s easy for a shelter to save every adoptable animal if it has very low standards for what it considers “adoptable.”
Animal humane issues
You can always find an animal welfare group worth receiving your money, but you need to put in the research to find the right group. If you take a look at all the animal charities that exist, you’ll likely feel a little overwhelmed. There are programs available to help all animals, and if you look at dogs alone there are hundreds of groups you could donate to.
It will make several of you tear up, but the story has a happy ending. The dog, who had apparently been surviving off of trash, gets the love and care she needs and is currently in a foster home, according to Hope For Paws.
A man stole a couple’s greater Swiss mountain dog from an enclosed, locked dog run in Forth Worth, Texas, according to a local Fox news station. He then posted about it on Reddit saying he had rescued the 10-month-old dog from the cold.
The holiday season is the perfect time for some families to adopt a cat or kitten since everyone is home to help out.
WagAware created the first-ever charm to raise awareness about homeless dogs. It donates half of its profits to animal rescue groups.
San Diego Humane Society north campus I went to a volunteer orientation with the San Diego Humane Society. I toured the north campus, which only houses dogs, and I was impressed by the cleanliness and the elaborate systems the shelter has in place for evaluating, socializing and training. There were 15 people in my group, …
Is pitbull awareness month still necessary, or is it time to put an end to “team pitbull” and simply focus on all dogs as a whole? Setting a group of dogs aside and labeling them differently makes them seem different to adopters, and that’s not always a good thing.
Is rescuing a dog the only “moral” way to obtain a dog? Do people adopt dogs for the right reasons?
How can shelters decrease barking? Animal shelters are crazy loud, right? The ASPCA’s webinar “Canine Behavior and Acoustics” focused on noisy shelter environments and how the noise affects the dogs. The webinar was presented by Dr. Patricia McConnell, a certified applied animal behaviorist. I was most interested in the section on how shelters can decrease …