Aqua Rehab – for a Cat?
Most dogs seem to love water, especially the retrievers. In fact, most animals seem to have a natural love of getting in the water and swimming. However, when it comes to cats, the water is fun and refreshing thing doesn’t seem to get through to many of them. Kittens who are trained to water seem [...]
Just For Some Laughs
Long term readers of this blog know that I simply cannot resist funny, captioned pictures of animals. I don’t think I am the only one. I recently ran across a couple of really cute captioned cat pictures and since I won’t be using them in posts anytime soon, I thought I would just put them [...]
Some Really Good News
From the ASPCA; On Wednesday, July 21, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 416-3 to pass H.R. 5566, the Prevention of Interstate Commerce in Animal Crush Videos Act of 2010. The nearly unanimous affirmative vote, as well as the fact that 262 representatives attached their names to the bill as cosponsors, makes this a decisive [...]
Kitten Rescued from Intersection
Imagine how surprised this police officer was when he answered a call to remove debris from a busy intersection and found the debris was actually an injured kitten. This officer was prompt and correct in his actions. Due to him the kitten is now thriving. So many times in our busy lives, we would be [...]
Cats Find Forever Homes
At times it can seem the whole world is a bad place and animals are all getting hurt. To an extent that is true. But in the bigger picture of things, lots of people, doing just what they can adds up to a lot of good getting done. Over July 4th weekend the ASPCA adopted [...]
Kitten Shot by Trooper
There are some things that are just too over the line to be believed. This is one of those things. On his birthday a North Carolina child is given a kitten for his very own pet. He takes care of it and loves it and the kitten is now five months old. But he happens [...]
Kitten Takes Wet ‘N Wild Ride
Anyone who has raised a kitten knows they can disappear in a nanosecond and turn up in the most unlikely places imaginable. They are so skilled at getting themselves into trouble that people who raise cats come to have a second nature of looking in anything before they close it to make sure a kitten [...]
Help Protect Domestic Animals from Abuse
How could anyone slam a little puppy and beat him hard enough to result in his death? All over getting mad because the dog wasn’t cooperating with its bath. I readily confess that I do not understand it and I absolutely know I do not want to understand this behavior. In my opinion there is [...]
Why Spay and Neuter?
It is Spring again and that means lots of new animals being born. In the wild bear mothers are out of their dens with their new cubs, birds are eagerly building nests and all types of wildlife is welcoming new life into the world. In the more tame world, dogs and cats are getting ready [...]
Cats and Water
We have all been told that cats do not like water. While this is true to a certain extent, there are big cats in the wild and domestic cats kept in homes who happen to like the water quite a lot. Some of them even enjoy swimming, are quite good at it and do [...]
Say No to Crush Videos
The Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled that crush videos are protected as free speech. The videos depict women in spiked heels or bare footed crushing small animals like kittens to death by stepping on them or impaling them with the heel. I cannot imagine where the heads of our Supreme Court Justices [...]
What Animal Rescue is All About
Edie is a little dog. She only weighs ten pounds or so. Edie is also in a shelter and is one hour away from being euthanized. On top of all that, she is terrified. Edie is what rescue is all about. A terrified but good little dog who just needs a chance to be the [...]
Kittens Rescued From Landfill
On Friday, December 11, 2009, Boston Animal Control officials said they rescued three kittens from a landfill. The kittens had apparently been abandoned there. A passerby saw the kittens trudging through sludge at the bottom of the land fill. They reported seeing the kittens and Animal Control officers were sent out to catch the felines [...]
