13 ways to help animals Earlier this month I decided to participate in The 13 Project. This project was created by a site called Pretty Fluffy to encourage individuals to help homeless animals. To participate, all you have to do is come up with your own list of 13 ways to help animals before 2012 ends. I …
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Adopt A Senior Pet month Shelters and rescue groups across the country are making a difference for senior pets by participating in Petfinder’s Adopt A Senior Pet month. If your shelter is offering adoption specials or events highlighting senior pets, let me know and I will add your events to this post. Below are two examples of …
Duluth shelter accepts 63 extra cats It’s Friday, and that means I’d like to share an example of people doing amazing work for homeless animals. This week Animal Allies Humane Society in Duluth, Minn., was faced with the challenge of accepting more than 60 cats from an alleged hoarding situation, according to the Duluth News Tribune. …
No adoption fees on barn cats from Animal Allies! I want to focus on some of the various programs that shelters and rescue groups are offering to make a difference for the animals in their communities. Animal Allies Humane Society in Duluth, Minn., offers a barn cat adoption program. Its slogan: Got mice? Adopt a …
Thoughts on the No Kill Conference A strange piece to the No Kill Conference that I attended last weekend was how person after person told me “I didn’t tell my shelter I’d be here.” A woman from Georgia said she would definitely be fired if her shelter director knew she attended. A woman from Louisiana said …
In April I filled out a volunteer application with a local shelter … I listed that I was available for cleaning morning and night and interested in fostering. I filled the form out at the shelter and physically handed it over. A month rolled around, then a few more weeks, and I never heard anything back. …
Sometimes making it just a little easier for someone to adopt a pet will go a long way as far as getting more pets into homes. Pets will be available at discounted rates this weekend at the Humane Society of Fargo-Moorhead during its impromptu “adopt-a-thon” June 8, 9 and 11, according to the shelter’s web …
In a fantasy world, no one would every consider re-homing a pet. No one would need to. But in the real world, sometimes good owners need to responsibly re-home their cats. The scenarios are endless. Someone loses a job or a house or a spouse. Someone must move overseas or to an area that does …
Our gray tabby cat Scout has had issues with the litter box on and off. Scout is a very sensitive cat – sensitive to change, picky about his food, fussy about being held, and yes, a princess when it comes to litter-box cleanliness. I’ve hopefully managed to get Scout’s habits under control by keeping his two …
Do you remember when I wrote about my cat Scout’s litter box issues awhile back? We thought we had the “situation” under control. We were wrong. This can be one of the most frustrating behavioral problems for cat owners. A deal breaker, even. Stay tuned for more on our attempts to solve the problem and …