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Three Legged Mutt Wins Best In Show

Jill — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:43:32 +0000

This is what real dog shows should be all about. At the ASPCA dog show, adorable little prince, a three-legged pit bull mix won best in show after he impressed the judges with his great attitude and his ability to catch three baseballs.

Shelter Dog Brings Awareness Around Globe

Jill — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:27:37 +0000

Joanne Lefson adopted Oscar from the local shelter in her hometown of Capetown, South Africa. He was one day away from euthanization. After a short period of falling in love with her new best friend, Joanne realized that there were way too many potential companions locked up in shelters around the globe.

To help make a difference in the lives of animals throughout the world, Joanne took it upon herself to sell her home and take Oscar on a $40,000 trip around the world to help bring attention to the plight of shelter pets. To the left, you can see Oscar at Machu Picchu.

During their trip, Joanne and Oscar fell in love with another pup in Romania, and their new friend Zara will soon join them at their permanent home in South Africa.

Mutt Wins Puppy Bowl VI MVP

Jill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:39:27 +0000

Puppy Bowl VI went off without a hitch this year, and the animal shelter stars were absolutely spectacular –like always. This year’s MVP was a delightfully rambunctious chug (chihuahua/pug) mix named Jake. This little devil not only won MVP, but also took first place in the online viewer poll. Way to go Jake!

To see Jake in action, be sure to watch the video on Animal Planet.

A Novel Approach To Saving Pups

Jill — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:28:25 +0000

California has been suffering from an overpopulation of chihuahuas this year, in part thanks to idiotic things like Legally Blonde, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Paris Hilton. The shelters are loaded up with the little guys, but there is hope. A number of organizations have been taking chihuahuas to other states where they will have better odds of being adopted.

The sweetie seen above is one of fifteen to be flown for free on Virgin America a few weeks ago in order to find them new homes in New York. Passengers on the flight were offered a free round of cocktails to celebrate the event. Now there’s a plane I wouldn’t mind being on.

Foster A Pet For The Holidays

Jill — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:52:02 +0000

The recession has led to tons of animal surrenders and more shelter pets than ever before, but you can help. PetFinder has a great list by location of rescue groups in your area that are participating the Foster a Lonely Pet for the Holidays program. The goal is to provide even temporary loving homes to dogs, cats and other animals in need. –Of course, organizers are secretly hoping that you fall in love with the animal and keep it after the thirty day foster period, but even giving these pets love for thirty days can help, so look into helping out a critter this month.

Brilliant Shelter Marketing Campaign

Jill — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:04:52 +0000

I love this ad by the Michigan Humane Society to help promote the adoption of shelter kittens. To top things off, they’re actually giving away all cats over the age of four months and they come with “a free “multipoint inspection” including spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, behavioral evaluation and grooming.” If you live in the area, it’s certainly something you should think about. If not, you can still adopt a sweet pre-owned kitten in your area, after all, you don’t NEED flashy advertising to get a kitty.

Site News

Jill — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:45:58 +0000

Hey everyone. I just thought I’d give you a little update on the site. First off, submissions are low, so if you haven’t set in pictures of your pet, please do so. Second, there’s going to be some changes with the advertising for a while. I was working with the Robert Sherman Ad Network and they essentially are trying to exploit smaller blogs to host their ads for free, so they’re gone now and other things will replace them.

In bigger and better news,from 8/16 through 8/26/09, I am donating 20% of all my Etsy sales to Saving Shelter Pets animal rescue and so are other Etsy sellers. For more details, please visit their fundraiser page.

Lastly, thanks for reading, the picture of Percy (my baby) to the right is for all of you.

The Obamas Missed Opportunites

Jill — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:14:25 +0000

First off let me say that Bo looks like a great dog and I’m sure the Obama family will have years of happiness with their new pet. That said, the president missed a few great opportunities by adopting a pure-bred dog from a breeder.

The breeder the family’s dog came from sounds like a reputable and legitimate pet breeder, which is good. The bad part is that it will open up the door for back yard breeders and puppy mills to start selling Portuguese water dogs and average families are likely to be too poor and/or too ill-educated on the dangers of these puppy factories to say no.

Everyone is expecting the popularity of this dog to sky rocket and not adopting an animal from a shelter could be a crucial blow to rescue centers that are currently over-full and under-funded. Now, more than ever, shelter pets could use some extra love and this was a big opportunity for the Obama’s to help out.

As far as the breed itself, Obama initially said he was interested in getting a mutt “like himself,” which he seemed to go back on completely. The advantage to the family doing this is that a huge surge of popularity for “mutts” could benefit all mutts -particularly if the dog’s heritage itself were hard to identify. This could really help out shelters who are loaded up with tons of mixed breed dogs. Many shelter pets will be put to sleep this year and the first family could have made a huge difference in the number of euthanized pets.

The dog choice of the president may be good for his family, but it’s quite disappointing to our nation as a whole.

Vote On Your Favorite Shelter Animal

Jill — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:17:14 +0000

Petside has a great contest where you can choose your favorite of 15 shelter animals. Every shelter included in the contest will be recieving a donation and the shelter that houses the winning pet will recieve $2500 towards vacinations. One great thing about the contest is that you get to see how many of the 15 have already been adopted.

Idiot Mayor Caught Dumping Strays

Jill — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:25:52 +0000

Mayor James Valley of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, has been fined over $1900 for being a total freaking moron. More specifically, he ordered the release of 10 dogs in the middle of the forest deciding they were better “free” than being strays.He made this brilliant decision after deciding to lower the number of strays in the area after residents complained that the local shelter was too dilapidated to be adequate.

Two of the dogs were shot when seen on someone’s property. The rest were saved by Northeast Arkansans for Animals.

For more info, visit Ohmidog.