Source: Animal life and the world of nature: a magazine of natural history throughout the world, Volume I, July 1902 - June 1903 Animals purportedly possessing special abilities enabling them to solve math problems or answer questions on various subjects have historically been offered as public attractions. Their "special abilities" have been debunked as taking … Continue reading A Mind Reading Dog
Category: behavior
Watch a No Kill Video About a Dog Named Watson
This video discussion provides context about a case involving an English setter deemed dangerous and put on the kill list by a shelter in Denver. The case illustrates a larger problem: shelters can kill animals even when rescue groups are willing to take them. https://youtube.com/watch?v=b5MtgDtnMSs&feature=share Photos of Watson from The Daily Mail
Watch No Kill Power Ladies Panel on YouTube
As it happened, no one of the gentlemanly persuasion was able to attend our recent discussion so Aubrie and I talked on our own about shelter dogs being killed for behavior. https://youtu.be/F5NaSbY6EbE
Welcome Home, Previously Outdoor (or Kennel) Dog
Photo by Shirley Marsh Over the years, I've taken in a number of adult dogs who had, either definitely or most likely, never lived in a house. While every dog is an individual and every home environment is different (number and types of other pets, number and ages of people, absence or presence of yard, … Continue reading Welcome Home, Previously Outdoor (or Kennel) Dog
OH Shelter Clings to Its Terrible Behavioral Assessments and Its Fatal Plus
That asinine plastic hand is waving more shelter dogs into the kill room - this time at the Franklin Co Dog Shelter in Ohio. Just how many dogs are being killed because they don't wag their tails and exclaim, "Thank you sir, may I have another?" when someone jabs them in the face with a … Continue reading OH Shelter Clings to Its Terrible Behavioral Assessments and Its Fatal Plus
One Dog Dead, Two Others Injured as Adopter Selects a Pet
Montgomery Co in Texas is investigating itself to determine how one of its off duty sheriff's deputies visited the county shelter to adopt a dog and ended up allegedly beating three dogs with a two-by-four in the back before having his adoption processed out front. (You probably want to go back and re-read that so … Continue reading One Dog Dead, Two Others Injured as Adopter Selects a Pet
MO Police Chief Shoots Caged Pet
Elizabeth Womack and her family recently moved to a home in Sparta, MO. When her mixed breed dog Chase went missing on November 10, she immediately began searching for him. After getting the runaround from Sparta police chief Andrew Spencer for a week, Ms. Womack was finally given Chase's dead body along with a story … Continue reading MO Police Chief Shoots Caged Pet
Orange Co Shelter Director Intent on Killing Service Dog
An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled this month that a service dog named Karma must be killed at the Orange Co shelter in CA before October 20. The ruling was based upon the recommendation of the shelter's director/veterinarian: OC Animal Care Director and Chief Veterinarian Jennifer Hawkins has deemed the husky mix too dangerous … Continue reading Orange Co Shelter Director Intent on Killing Service Dog
Sangamon Co Suspends Volunteer Who Changed Cage Card
When a 16 year old volunteer took an exuberant dog out of his cage at the Sangamon Co shelter in Illinois last week, the dog was very excited. The dog, called Alpha, hadn't been walked in more than a day. In expressing his enthusiasm, Alpha scratched the girl. She reported the scratch to the staff who … Continue reading Sangamon Co Suspends Volunteer Who Changed Cage Card
Be Here Now: Loving Pets Available in Shelters
I was researching a public shelter and couldn't find a website for the facility so visited its page on Petfinder. At the top of that page, the shelter had a quote from another website which reads, in part: ALL SHELTER DOGS WERE ONCE NORMAL PUPPIES eager to learn how to live with people. Yet far too … Continue reading Be Here Now: Loving Pets Available in Shelters
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