It’s a Spay Day Heyday

Your pet is the cutest critter in the world, right? Well, here’s a chance to prove it while helping to raise funds for spaying and neutering and maybe win a prize.
It’s the annual online photo contest for the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International. It’s free to enter and by doing [...]

Henry The Eighth Is Number One – Part II

Dumping your pet at a dog park may seem like a better idea than leaving him by the side of a road or taking him for a “drive in the country”. Perhaps you think some soft-hearted dog lover will take Fido in and life will be happy ever after. Never mind that your pooch may [...]

Henry the Eighth Is Number One

You know, abandonment is such a cavalier form of cruelty; it’s not like being beaten senseless or half-starved or even used as bait in a fighting ring. And the people who dump their pets off in the woods or by the side of a road often justify their actions as “Giving Fido a chance”. It’s [...]

Understanding Basic Horse Behavior

This is Promise. She was found wandering in traffic outside Denver, hungry, afraid and assumed abandoned. She is available for adoption from Colorado Horse Rescue.
When keeping horses it is important to understand the horse from a horse’s “language.” There is much mystery made by ‘horse whisperers’ and much money made from it when what it [...]

Another Unhappy Story

He came bounding joyously across the street to meet us …… right in front of a passing car!
“He” was a downright dirty, ragged, maybe labradoodle with a happy grin on his face. The passing car fortunately was moving slowly through our residential neighborhood and braked in time to save him, though the driver gave me [...]

This Christmas, Don’t Be Responsible For Another Eve

The puppy looked like a carcass when she was found locked beneath the house on the night before Christmas. Her rescuers called her Eve.
Eve’s owner left her for nearly five weeks without food and water. The owner later told the court in Auckland, New Zealand (after she had dodged the system for six months) that [...]

When Does The Brutality End?

It’s January 26, 1999 in Columbus, Ohio and a man adopts a cat from the Citizens For Humane Action. About a week later, he beats the cat, pokes out its eye, breaks its jaw and legs and leaves it alive, in agony and a barely recognizable bloody mess in the laundry basket.  Later, he calls [...]

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 [...]

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; [...]