What affects us affects cats
Update: WBTV released this update stating Barbara Hart was arrested Friday morning and charged with 9 counts of animal cruelty. Bond was set at $1,500. The cat advocacy world woke up to the following article today from WBTV News. A very well respected Salisbury, North Carolina animal advocate is in trouble with the law. …
A federal lawsuit was filed in March at the U.S. District Court in Camden by three volunteers at a county-operated animal shelter in Pleasantville, New Jersey. The trio claims their First Amendment rights were violated when their comments were deleted and they were blocked from the shelter’s public Facebook page. Atlantic County Animal Shelter …
Greenville County Animal Care Services (GCACS), a kill shelter located in Upstate South Carolina, is well on its way to becoming no-kill. Their newest project is a brightly painted kitten nursery. The shelter takes in between 40 and 50 kittens per day. Many are orphans whose mom was either hit by a car or …
While doing my nightly routine of “sleep-surfing” the internet, I recently came across a post on Facebook from a “friend” that I thought would interest (and most likely anger) the readers here. This friend is a big promoter of declawing cats in her New York rescue! Michael wrote this PoC article back in January …
A cat and dog were rescued by firefighters after a house fire broke out April 29 in the South 17th Street area of Allentown, Pennsylvania. One person was also rescued from the blaze. Engines 10,9, 6, 6 and Truck 2 responded to the fire under the command of Battalion 1 (C. Williams). Engine 10 …
The Cheetah Conservation Funds (CFF) recently teamed up with the Somaliland Ministry of Environment and Rural Development to rescue nine beautiful cheetah cubs and one young adult cheetah. Three of them are in extremely poor health. Wildlife traders were on their way to the Arabian peninsula at the time. Although the United Arab Emirates …
Thanks to the joint effort of some Daytona Beach Good Samaritans, four kittens rescued on Monday from a pile of trash are safely in the care of a no-kill shelter in Florida. The 3-week-old kittens were found in a box left on North Halifax Avenue in a pile of trash. The person who abandoned …
Thanks to a creative teacher from a North Carolina school, very young students are learning about pet ownership while simultaneously having a good time. The kindergarten students of the Columbus Charter School have completed the annual art project for the Columbus County Animal Shelter. Each year a local school is asked to provide pet-themed …
