Take the time to enter your Shelter Animals Count data!
It’s a great day to enter your Shelter Animals Count (SAC) data! Data plays an important role in the animal welfare sector. It has enabled our industry to compile a complete picture of the animals entering and leaving shelters. You can see how your data compares to those in other states or look up the data of specific organizations with SAC’s Data Dashboards. Data is current through February 2021. This also serves as a reminder that shelter and rescue organizations must be active participants in Shelter Animals Count to be...
Maple The Guitar Loving Dog Has Passed Away
If you are a fan of AcousticTrench, then you have probably seen the YouTuber playing along with his guitar loving dog for the past 12 years. Although he had many fans on YouTube, there was no doubt that she was his number one fan. Unfortunately, Maple the guitar-loving dog passed away on June 17, 2021. In order to share the news with the YouTube community, he shared a video of playing What a Wonderful World while Maple sat lovingly by his side. The video was entitled: “Saying Goodbye”. Photo: YouTube/AcousticTrench AcousticTrench...
Clock Is Ticking As Rescuers Race To Save Orphaned Kittens
There’s a reason Adopt-a-Cat Month is celebrated in June. Summer marks the beginning of kitten season, leaving U.S. shelters overflowing with homeless kittens and cats desperate for care. But kitten season doesn’t just end in July, when Adopt-a-Cat Month is over. Shelters remain crowded with kittens and cats as the breeding season continues all summer, causing a crescendo of homeless animals. The situation is especially dire for orphaned newborn kittens, who require round-the-clock care and constant bottle feeding. Alas, nursing...
You Came Home Today
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! You Came Home Today You came home today, but not in the way I wanted or remembered. You passed from this life unto the next exactly 13 days ago, and today I went to the doctor’s office to pick up your ashes; what’s left of what I love to hold, to smell, to lay next to, and to be around. DOG PAW. PHOTO: PIXABAY/MYLENE2401 For a time, I had thought I might bury your body at the...
Take The Pet Shelter Pledge For National Dog House Repair Month
It is a sad reality that only 1 out of every 10 dogs born will ever find a permanent home. In most cases, their owners will give them up, or they will be found homeless on the street. Tragically, less than 2% of those cats and only 15 to 20% of dogs are returned to their owners, DoSomething.org reports. According to the ASPCA, approximately 7.6 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year, about 3.9 million dogs and 3.4 million cats. And at least 2.7 million of those shelter animals will be killed because shelters are...
Senior Rhino At Utah Zoo Receives Custom Mask To Help With Allergies
Princess is a “geriatric” southern white rhino who resides at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. She shares an enclosure with her brother, George, and the two are some of the most popular animals to see. Visitors stop to marvel at their size and large horns, but Princess is also turning heads with her brightly-colored fly mask. The mask is not a fashion accessory or a coronavirus precaution, but a way to protect the rhino’s sensitive eyes. Photo: Facebook/Utah’s Hogle Zoo A few years ago, Princess developed eye allergies which...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: No Place Like Home Challenge winners, free ShelterLuv and more!
Happy Monday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week. Announcing the No Place Like Home Challenge winners!The No Place Like Home Challenge is completed and to say we are thrilled with the results would be an understatement. Return to Home programs are incredibly important. By focusing on reunions in the field, families are reunited in a matter of minutes or hours and never have to step foot inside a shelter. By making return… Learn More Upcoming virtual conferenceJuly 9-11, 2021: The...
Adorable Kittens Can’t Stop Watching Tom And Jerry Cartoons
People aren’t the only ones who like to watch TV. I have a friend whose cat loves watching YouTube videos of lions in the wild, while another friend’s dog likes binging episodes of Rick and Morty with me whenever I dog-sit him. My point is, even animals like to watch TV, and they all have different interests. For one pair of kittens, the classic Tom and Jerry cartoon is their guilty pleasure. Photo: flickr/momokacma The adorable pair absolutely love to watch episodes of the cartoon on the computer. It is very entertaining for them...
Deaf And Blind Dog Reunited With Her Grandpa After A Year Apart
We’ve been facing a world-wide pandemic for over a year now. Fortunately, with vaccinations happening in a lot more countries, the world is starting to open up again. That means that we’re able to see our loved ones after months of having to socially distance or maintain relationships strictly in a virtual setting. But it isn’t just humans who’ve experienced the downside of separation. Our pets have also had to adjust to not seeing certain people as frequently as they might be used to. Photo: Unsplash For some animals,...
Family Recreates Mother’s Day Surprise Video With Their Full-Grown Dog Instead Of A Puppy
Most of us probably have that one dream pet that we’d someday love to have. Personally, I’ve always wanted a German Shepherd and hope to someday be in a position where I can have one. For one woman, Lynn Younglove, she had always wanted a Bernese Mountain dog. On Mother’s Day back in 2019, she had no idea what her family had in store for her. Knowing how much she’d wanted one, they arranged to surprise her in bed with a Bernese Mountain dog puppy. Photo: YouTube/T&T Creative Media The original video was quite...
