This video comes from Zach Skow and is one that every animal lover should see. Zach gave the intro back in April on his Facebook page as his wife Heather gives us an idea of the torment shelter staff, volunteers and those in rescue face on a daily basis. It’s been viewed more than …
Two senior managers of the Hamilton Township Animal Shelter, Todd Bencivengo, 56, the former director and Jeffrey Plunkett, 62, the health officer, have been charged with two counts of third-degree animal cruelty and one count of second-degree official misconduct. They’ve been accused of euthanizing 236 cats and 93 dogs before they’d been held for …
It’s been reported on WHIOTV7 that the Montgomery Animal Resource Center will stop ‘providing general shelter and care for cats’. They say that the reason is that cats do badly at the shelter because of limited space for cats. They say that housing them there is detrimental to their well-being and that a large …
It’s been reported online that the Carthage Humane Society board fired their shelter director, Deborah Bell, and closed the shelter. They voted on Wednesday last and the vote went 6-3. It appears that she had done good work and the reason for the firing was a series of disagreementa with the president of the …
This long-winded video demonstrates that shelters should keep close siblings together whenever appropriate. This is an example of separation anxiety not of a cat missing his human caretaker but of one cat missing another. Although the video is teased out in length and overly long, the point made is clear and important. When there …
“This is a huge issue… They’re not trash, they’re pets.” – Desiree Bender. Accusations of scandalous behavior have been made against an animal shelter in East Baton Rouge Parish causing turmoil. A spokeswoman, Ginger Guttner, for the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine (LSU) said that the school has received about 25 animal …
Owner goes into nursing home and no one can take her elderly Birmans so they were relinquished with great heartache at a shelter. Euthanasia was discussed. We don’t know the cats’ now former owner but I would gently suggest that she is an elderly lady who had to go into a nursing home and …
“They love each other. They feel calm and supported when they’re near each other…” This is another first for me: a story about a ‘couple’ – a cat and a little dog – who were surrendered together in the same carrier to a shelter because their ‘owners’ were unable to find a home for …
