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Posted by YesBiscuit on May 6, 2017
https://yesbiscuit.com/2017/05/06/open-thread-250/
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mikken
/ May 6, 2017Those dogs look weird.
YesBiscuit
/ May 7, 2017Jade would like to wear their fancy coats.
mikken
/ May 8, 2017I sense Halloween costume!
Karen F
/ May 8, 2017TIL about hummingbird eggs and nests.
http://shareably.net/protect-hummingbirds/?utm_content=buffer79a6c&utm_medium=ILoveMyDogStories&utm_source=ild&utm_campaign=ild
Lisa B
/ May 11, 2017Pender County (NC) pound director discovers that, OMG, posting shelter pets online gets them adopted. Crazy! Who knew? http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20170510/online-posting-secures-reprieve-for-pender-county-pets
db
/ May 17, 2017Imagine that! Still trying to convince our local animal control to share lost/found pets on social media, but they just don’t have the time or money. But they do find the time and money to kill when things get crowded.
KateH
/ May 20, 2017Animal control in Texarkana seem to not want to reunite people with their lost pets, or help with pets that need a safe place to go, anywhere near as much as they want to punish them. Steep rise in fees guarantees more animals die – way to be a good community resources – NOT! http://www.ksla.com/story/35473049/texarkana-animal-shelter-raising-fees-for-surrenders-reclaims?clienttype=generic&utm_content=bufferb81ea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
mikken
/ May 25, 2017Let’s put some beered-up hunters in a hot air balloon – what could go wrong?
http://gizmodo.com/texas-wants-you-to-hunt-feral-hogs-from-hot-air-balloon-1795543004
Melissa Wildes
/ May 25, 2017Animal control officer fired, but he has a long history of things that should have gotten him fired.
http://www.chroniclet.com/Local-News/2017/05/25/Humane-officer-in-North-Ridgeville-fired-for-killing-rabbits.html
Karen F
/ May 30, 2017A scientist argues that wild animals value freedom of choice, and have aesthetic preferences. If that’s true of wild animals, it must be true of domestic animals, as well.
Lisa B
/ June 14, 2017Awesome article about Smiley Pete, Lexington, KY’s town dog. He was thought to have been born in April 1943, and he began showing up on Lexington’s streets near the end of World War II. He was taken care of by the town’s merchants and lived until 1957.
http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article155331224.html
Lisa B
/ June 16, 2017Tennessee shelter to close July 1. Animals not adopted will be killed. http://www.wbir.com/mobile/article/news/local/shelter-closing-july-1-to-host-adopt-a-thon-saturday/51-449631115
Lisa B
/ June 27, 2017Here’s another article about a dog who just lived her life with no owner, looked after by locals, until she died of apparent old age in Lincoln County, NC: http://www.lincolntimesnews.com/2017/06/26/dog-frequent-sight-boger-city/
My favorite quote: “The man that was over the dog catchers at that time said that he’d watch her, which he did for a couple of weeks. He called back and said, ‘she doesn’t bother anyone and we’re just going to leave her alone.’ That was the end of that.”