Animal Hoarding

Tufts University maintains a website specifically to educate about the challenge of animal hoarding.

"Animal hoarding is not about animal sheltering, rescue, or sanctuary, and should not be confused with these legitimate efforts to help animals."

"Animal hoarding is cruelty to animals."

Parrot Foster

A place for abandoned, abused and unwanted parrots as well as a placement service with educational support - Parrot Foster

Heat Deadly for Dogs

THE HEAT CAN TURN DEADLY FOR YOUR DOG VERY, VERY QUICKLY.

• Keep your dog indoors during the heat of the day.
• Keep your air conditioner running all day.
• Service your central air conditioning NOW and change filters frequently.
• Check the temperature in your house at various times of the day.
• Don't take your dog for a walk or to an outdoor event in an unshaded area in the heat.
• IT'S NOT WORTH RISKING YOUR DOG'S HEALTH OR LIFE WITH EXERCISE IN THE HEAT.
• If the surface on which your dog is walking is too hot for comfort, IT'S TOO HOT FOR YOUR DOG TO BE OUTDOORS.
• If you don't have air conditioning in your car, leave your dog at home.
• Even if you have an air conditioned car, carry frozen bottles of water to keep your dog cooled down. Also carry plenty of bottled drinking water and keep some portable water bowls in your car.
• Sun beating through a rear window when you're stuck in traffic could kill your dog, even if your car is air conditioned.
• Carry a bag or two of ice from the convenience store in a cooler in your car. If your car breaks down or you end up in monster traffic, you could lose your dog before you can get to help.

from Little Angels Pug Rescue www.lapr.org

Taking Action for Animals

Do you want to help animals, but can't find the time? Animal Rights Online has compiled a list of Action for Animals Websites. For a copy email: capemews@hotmail.com

Deer - Song Bird Study

"Working with the Canadian Wildlife Service, Jean-Louis Martin and colleagues surveyed songbird, deer, vegetation and insect populations on 37 islands.They found the bird species that relied most on understorey vegetation for food and nesting were most affected by the deer. Their numbers were 93 per cent lower than those on deer-free islands."

From issue 2510 of New Scientist magazine, 30 July 2005, page 14

POOL PARTY

Beating the heat!

Backyard Nature

Animal Planet and the National Wildlife Federation have joined forces to create Backyard Habitat, a television show starting in mid-August which presents simple fun ways to attract wildlife to your backyard. NWF also has an on-line "university" so you can learn right at your computer.

Cow Appreciation Day

The ASPCA urges all to honor cows today.
Worshipped as a mother goddess in early Mediterranean civilizations and held sacred to Hindus as a symbol of the earth itself, the gentle cow can teach us all a thing or two about slowing down and smelling the flowers

Codey Signs S 84

NJ Governor Codey signed legislation that strengthens New Jersey’s anti-cruelty law. “Imposing additional criminal penalties for use of an animal to harm or kill another animal is an important supplement to New Jersey’s dangerous dog and animal fighting laws.”

Italy and Feral Cats

"According to Dr. Enrico Moriconi, president of the newly formed Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, Italy is a world leader in animal rights law. Since 1991 it has been illegal to kill healthy dogs and cats living in shelters." and "Because of their job keeping rodents at bay, cats are given the status of free citizens in Italy. In terms of Italian law, this means that government-run shelters are responsible for spaying and neutering cats (and dogs), but then allow them to go free to fend for themselves."

Quotable

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and wiser and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of earth." ~Henry Beston

Thank you, Volunteers

Volunteers are unpaid,
Not because they are worthless,
But because they are priceless.

Volunteers don’t necessarily
Have the time; they just
Have the heart.

Quotable

"I am sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots."~George T.Angell

Everyone Loves a Good Joke

Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University, states in the Journal of Science that studies by various groups suggest that monkeys, dogs and even rats love a good laugh.

Unusual Endings

from San Francisco Chronicle
Traffic collision with deer: 113 (2002)
Legal execution: 59 (2004)
Tornado: 54 (2003)
Lightning: 43 (2003)
Dog bites: 22 (2004)
Skydiving deaths: 21 (2004)
Whooping cough: 17 (2002)
Fireworks: 8 (2004)
Sources: Centers for Disease Control, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Death Penalty Execution Center, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, National Canine Research Foundation, National Weather Service, United States Parachute Association

CDC Bite Protection Tips

Safety tips
-- Spay/neuter your dog reducing aggression.
-- Never leave infants or young children alone with a dog.
-- Train and socialize your dog.
-- Seek professional advice if the dog acts aggressive.
-- Advise children to avoid approaching unfamiliar dogs.
More tips .

Quotable

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them,
but to stop there is not enough.

We have a higher mission -
to be of service to them wherever they require it.

St. Francis of Assisi

Animal Spirit

The Animal Spirit is a positive, proactive, educational organization for animal advocates serving as a resource guide and support center to end abuse and exploitation of sentient beings through compassionate dialogue and peaceful public outreach.
http://www.theanimalspirit.com

Recent Abuse Cases

Dog stolen from airport : Jun 10 - San Fransico, CA
Dog neglect : Jun 9 - Lake Worth, FL
Three pit-bulls found dead : Jun 9 - Alton, IL
Cockfighting - Four Arrested In Poaching Sting : Jun 9- Mountainair, NM
110 starving animals seized : Jun 9- Pueblitos, NM
Horse dragged behind truck : Jun 8 - Gentry, AR
Horse neglect : Jun 8 - Opelousas, LA
Dog shot and killed : Jun 7- Glocester, RI
Hoarding - 40 dogs, 20 cats seized : Jun 7- Marion County, TN
Dog stabbed, hanged : Jun 6- Scottsdale, AZ
Geese intentionally hit with boat : Jun 4 - Van Nuys, CA
Animals Seized for Neglect : Jun 4 - Magnolia, TX
Dog neglected, abandoned : Jun 3, - Bowling Green, KY
Rabbits abandoned, 1 found dead : Jun 2 - Philomath, OR
http://www.pet-abuse.com

Mad Cow

The first American-born cow with mad cow disease was at a Champion Pet Foods plant in Waco, Texas.