Black Cats and Halloween

There’s so much superstition about black cats, especially on this day, so I’ve compiled a few articles that will help put things in perspective.
This sleek black cat is looking for a home on petfinder.com.
History of the black cat
Halloween No Holiday For Black Cats – News Article
October – Black Cat Month
Ancient False Myths Leave Bewitching Black [...]

Order In The Dog Park

I love the dog park! For an all-be-it unwilling suburbanite like me it can be a godsend. My alternatives are pounding the pavement while choking down exhaust fumes, driving miles to reach an area that at least has pretensions of being countryside, or confining my canines to the backyard. However, there are also some definite [...]

Angel Morphs Into Demon

OK, so the title of this article is a little over the top.  But do you remember that old Disney movie, The Ugly Dachshund? Where a great dane is raised with three dachshund puppies and the dane ends up thinking he’s just a little dog and, of course, gets in all kind of trouble. Well, [...]

Gimme A Break! A Tax Breaks For Pets, That Is

The ASPCA figures it costs an average of $670  a year to care for a cat; dog care is a further $200. If you’re in my household, that’s chicken feed.
Memphis is available for adoption on petfinder.com.
With nine cats and three dogs (all rescues, of course) those figures increase exponentially. One of our cats alone cost [...]

Reptile Awareness Day

October 21st and it’s Reptile Awareness Day. Currently there are 435 animals listed for adoption on petfinder.com. That, of course, is a mere fraction of the pets who are discarded. Unwanted snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs and amphibians, perhaps more than any other pets, are dumped in the wild or  ignored and left to die rather [...]

News of the Day

This is not one of my spunkier-feeling days (No, not swine flu – just a cold), so here are few timely news stories from around the country:
Arizona Pet Rescue Group Faces Foreclosure
Pet Ownership is Good For Your Health
Florida Man Charged With Cruelty Over Pet Rat
If Your Pets Could Talk, They’d Howl
Abandoned Piglet is Lost and [...]

Snakes Gone Wild

A few years ago at a Florida flea market I came across an albino python stuffed into a small glass aquarium that was sitting in the sun. The owner (whose cruelty in baking the poor beast derived from a combination of ignorance and apathy) had an all-too-common story. The snake had been purchased as a [...]

Things To Consider When Adopting A Pet

Guest Article
If you’re considering getting a new pet, adoption is an excellent option. By adopting a pet, you’re helping to reduce the number of unwanted animals that end up destroyed in shelters each and every day, and making a difference in the life of an innocent.
JB and Mimi are looking for a together forever home. [...]

Driving While Drunk and Dragging a Horse

Dick Francis is one of my very favorite authors. For those of you who don’t know, Mr Francis is a very successful National Hunt jockey-turned-writer of more than forty best-selling novels with plots that revolve around the horse-racing community. In one of his mysteries horses are being mutilated by having their legs hacked off. It [...]

Do I Go Home Today?

DO I GO HOME TODAY?
(Author Unknown)
My family brought me home cradled in their arms.
They cuddled me and smiled at me and said I was full of charm.
They played with me and laughed with me and showered me with toys.
I sure do love my family, especially the little girls and boys.
The children loved to feed me; [...]