Please share your experiences giving gifts that help shelter pets. This could include making a donation to a shelter in a gift recipient's name (please tell us how the recipient was notified of your gift), shopping online via a group's Amazon button (such as the No Kill Advocacy Center has), buying from a company which … Continue reading Christmas Shopping
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Pets Alive in NY Partners with Santa to Promote Christmas Adoptions
You know how sometimes there's an idea that starts out good but then it snowballs into a dirty blob? For example, it's a good idea to spread the word about keeping your cats indoors on Halloween. There are all sorts of comings and goings, kids traipsing around the neighborhood at night and yes - there … Continue reading Pets Alive in NY Partners with Santa to Promote Christmas Adoptions
Photo Call
I'd like to put together a post for Christmas celebrating the human-animal bond in pictures. If you would like to submit a photo for inclusion, please keep the following guidelines in mind: Photo should feature at least one pet and one human in keeping with the human-animal bond theme. Please include a brief caption identifying … Continue reading Photo Call
Happy 4th of July
Hope everyone in the States is enjoying the holiday. This photo was sent in by reader Joan Massey and features 2 of her pets - Jackie and Karma.
Happy Easter
A Shelter Christmas Carol
Sent in by reader Rebecca Barocas: Away in the Shelter (sung to Away in the Manger) Away in a shelter, concrete for a bed, A little mixed breed dog lay down his sweet head. He didn’t do nothing to get here they say, The little mixed breed dog asleep where he lay. The shelter is … Continue reading A Shelter Christmas Carol
Happy Memorial Day
Thank you for your service, one and all.
It’s the Easter Beagle!
Happy Easter, Chocolate Over-Indulgers!
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
I know it's customary to review the year, or in this case the decade, at the end but I'm not really a look-backer. Suffice to say that I hope every year is better than the last and ultimately I guess I see them as being that way either on their own merits or out of … Continue reading “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
One of My Fave Xmas Songs
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