Shelter Cat Hides Away in a Pillowcase All Day, Prompting Volunteer to Fall in Love with Her
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! While volunteering at a local shelter, I noticed a pillowcase containing a small lump. Peering inside, I saw a small tan tabby staring back with huge dilated eyes. I tried coaxing her out with treats, to no avail. CAT. PHOTO: PIXABAY / ACHMAD BISRI After another weekend of never seeing her emerge from the pillowcase, I decided to take pillowcase and all to an outside enclosure. Bad idea....
Hands-In Dog Challenge Proves Dogs Are Our Best Teammates
Who doesn’t love a good TikTok challenge, especially when it involves so many cute pets? We think these videos really show that dogs are man’s best friends, and they’re also our most valuable team players, no matter what the game is. The latest trend on the Gen Z social media site TikTok is a type of challenge video that involves seeing what your pet will do if you invite it to put its paw in during a team “huddle.” It’s called the “hands-in challenge.” For this challenge, one person must put a...
Mom Forces Dog to Wear All the Items He’s Stolen from the Baby
When you’re a parent (or a pet parent), sometimes you’ve got to get creative with your discipline strategy in order to make your kids (or your pets) listen to you and do what you ask. The things you think will work don’t always work, but if you keep trying different things, you’re bound to find something that hits the nail on the head and encourages obedience. We hope. This mom has come up with a very interesting strategy to discourage her dog from stealing her baby’s things. Every time the dog steals something...
The Dog Bed Situation: How I Accommodate Two Picky Ladies
Hi, I’m Allison. Read my introduction to learn more about me and my three mixed-breed dogs from Thailand, Jelly, Lorraina, and Manic. As many of you know, we live in a three-dog household. And as much as I would love for each of the dogs to have their own room, that is not possible. So, we have several dog beds strewn around our home. We have Manic’s toy bed right by the sliding glass doors so he can chew on his stuffed chipmunk and watch the world. We have Lorraina’s lounge that we keep next to the TV so she can...
Special Rescue Tabby Named in Memory of Boy Whose Best Friend Was a Cat
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! I had to send my long haul trucking buddy Thomas over the Rainbow Bridge in August of 2014 due to bladder stone complications, after he fought for two weeks for his life. I had been an emotional wreck since, but I was not sure I was ready for another feline in my life, either. CAT. PHOTO: PIXABAY / GUNDULA VOGEL A job transfer moved me to Phoenix two months after losing him, and I would...
Puppies Dumped On Side Of Highway In Oklahoma On The Mend, Thanks To You
A heartbreaking story has a happy ending thanks in part to your support. Six puppies were found running along a highway in Oklahoma. Someone was reportedly giving away puppies at the country store and the ones who didn’t find homes were abandoned on the side of the road to fend for themselves. Photo: Friends with Four Paws Rescue They are just six weeks old. Thankfully, they were rescued before they were harmed by predators or hit by a car. The malnourished pups arrived at Friends with Four Paws Rescue covered in fleas and ticks. Photo:...
8 Things Penny Does That Make Me Laugh
Hi, I’m Savanna! Read my introduction to learn more about me and my spunky Chihuahua mix, Penny. Dogs can really get up to some crazy antics, and Penny is no exception. She’s always doing the craziest things that keep me entertained. Most of the things she does, I don’t think she has any idea that they’re funny to me. She’s just being a dog. Penny’s personality really is something else and I never know what she’ll do next. But there are other things she does pretty consistently that always...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: Pet inclusive housing, language matters and more!
Happy Tuesday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week. The disconnect between pet-friendly and inclusive housing policiesThe benefits of renting a home to a pet owner are remarkable. Pet-friendly vacancies fill up faster, they are easier to fill and renters stay longer in pet-friendly housing. On a recent Community Conversations, these benefits and what can be done were discussed in “Keeping Pets and People Together in Rental Housing.” Two industry experts… Learn More To find adopters and...
They Were Prescribed as a Cold Treatment, and Other Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Facts
Cute and pocket-sized with a fancy history. That’s the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. To celebrate this popular pooch, International Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Day is held on the last Saturday of each May. Read on to learn some of the things that make this breed so special. They Were Popular with Royalty As if their name doesn’t give it away, earlier versions of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel were the sidekicks of King Charles II, who was known to be trailed by a few of them wherever he went. Their coat colors – black...
Strengthening the Human-Animal Bond: Hays County Pet Resource Center’s Early Successes
May 24, 2024 In March 2024, Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) presented recommendations to the Hays County Commissioners Court on how to develop and launch the Pet Resource Center for Hays County, recommended in a 2022 feasibility study compiled by Team Shelter USA and Animal Arts. The 2022 study proposed a pet resource center model as the solution to Hays County’s expanding animal services-related needs, and as a remedy to the overburdened regional sheltering model currently in practice. The new model concept is a smaller-scale shelter...
