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Hands-On Help: Rational Animal's Mother's Comfort Project aims to provide homemade beds to cats and dogs at Animal Care & Control of New York City shelters. The beds, along with catnip toys, are made by Rational Animal volunteers as well as partnering school clubs who meet in a sewing studio. To date, over 700 beds and 400 toys have been made and delivered. Get involved by volunteering, donating, or making a purchase -- or consider doing something similar in your hometown.
Sign the Pledge: Believe it or not, Simon Cowell has interests outside of making "American Idol" contestants cry. The show's meanest judge has lent his support to and recorded a PSA for the World Society for the Protection of Animals. The organization envisions "a world where animal welfare matters, and animal cruelty ends." You can help Cowell show governments, corporations and other decision makers that animals do matter. All it takes is a signature!
Buy the Product: Baltimore-based artist Matt Snow is selling keychain bottle openers through Ex-Boyfriend, an online boutique, and donating 100 percent of proceeds through April 17, 2010, to the Maryland SPCA. There are a few super fun options (and they're just $6.50 a piece!), but we're kind of partial to "Fuzz Aldrin."
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SO pleased that you ran something about the dire straits NYC and it's boroughs are in with our city shelters. they are cutting about $400,000 from their budget alloted to the shelter system which creeps along best it can at it's best. sure, people DO love animals here, but .. some do not. they fail to neuter or spay and we have THAT problem. in any case, the cuts affect FEEDING the dogs and cats. their bedding -dependant on donations!- and everything else. I haven't much but shall do what I can for them. it breaks my heart so much has been cut here; as in other places. and other services are cut certainly, but .. this affects those who are rather helpless at best. the employees there do the best they can.
There's also the Animal Rescue Site-you click the site once a day-it's free. The click just means that you looked at the site and an animal in a shelter gets free food.
People's misguided concern for animals is another of the moronic habits that keep this country on the edge of financial disaster. Despite the ignorant claim many make that their pets are part of their family, such family members are being turned in to city pounds in record numbers for euthanasia during these difficult times. The answer to this problem is not to make the problem worse by denying that the population of cats and dogs is an epidemic no different than a plague of rats that is costing billions in wasted money. The answer is to make laws limiting the number of pets people can have, insisting that all pets be kept on the owner's property or on a leash, and limiting public funding for keeping the excess alive. As in many things, this country needs to enact common sense measures regarding pets rather than supporting the insanity that pets are something other than mere dumb animals that are becoming an unmanageable nightmare.
Did a dog bite you when you were a kid. I have been in the cattle business my whole life so I know that animals are not people. But when you domesticate them, you take care of them. The human race tamed dogs and cats, so they are in our charge, if you have any ethics.
On a leash, how would you like to be on a leash you ass-hole. If you can't say anything nice say nothing. I imagine how you must take care of kids. Boy you need help from God
Poor Stanley has no friends
Seems to me its to many kids. I'm above that.
C'mon Stanley, You really mean that people should be limited to the number of animals they have. Are you some kind of idiot, or what? I have seven dogs, and take care of them rather well. I talk to each of my dogs every day. You probably don't have animals. You might of owned a ewe once, but you got scared and sold her, thinking she might tell your dirty secrets!!!
I think the only things that separate humans from animals is the ability to speak and an opposable thumb. In some cases not even the ability to speak separates us. Additionally, animals DO speak in their own language. They understand humans much better than humans understand them. I'm hoping that in the afterlife we'll all pay for any cruelty we've inflicted upon animals. I don't care whether we're rewarded for kindnesses or not. IMHO that's like taking care of your kids - it's just the right thing to do. In addition, I think that if veterinarians didn't push every test and treatment they can onto people who bring their pets in there would be many fewer pets turned in to shelters. People often turn them in because they can't afford things the vet said they HAVE to have. Most likely all they really HAVE to have is love, food (and not the kind the vet sells) and rabies shots.
Stanley above would make me speechless, but I do have to say that he and his kind, not unconditionally loving, loyal, and wonderful companion animals, are the ones who are taking up space and wasting the world's funds and resources.
So glad to see these POSITIVE resources shared, and there are plenty more. http://www.TheAnimalRescueSite.org and http://www.FreeKibbleKat.com are two good ones where CARING people can sign up to receive email reminders so they don't miss a day of helping animals for free.
I just adopted 2 yorkies about 3 months ago to keep them from going who knows where. They both need to be fixed, unbeknownst to me, I called around and they want $400.00 per dog! I cannot afford this expense! Does anyone know of anyone or anywhere who does it for less? I am going to have to look for new homes for them again if I can't find anyone cheaper than this. I am in CT and I would truly appreciate any help. Thanks alot.
doggone broke in CT
Since I just got a Pekingese puppy about a month ago I been doing a lot of reading and researching and since I am on a fixed income I know how expensive it can get. I suggest to you that you start looking for an animal hospital. when I was looking around for a place that wasn't to expensive I found that the animal hospital isn't too bad and they usually are very professional and not the shady characters that you might find. And also if you can't get them fixed right at the moment you can use vaseline and put alittle over where there poop comes out and there noses. I read somewhere that that supposedly works. also I read some where that chlorine tablets help in the female. You might have to do some research on all of that, but I think that you should research before you give up your furry babies. good luck
There are low cost spay/neuter programs in Connecticut. Do you live near Danbury? Newington? I have a link for you: http://www.neuterspay.org/cgi-bin/webdata_pro.pl It's $88 for a male, $97 for a female under 10 lbs, $140 if she is older and has been in heat at least once. This is for The Connecticut Humane Society. Here's the link for the info I posted above: http://www.cthumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=care_SpayNeuterFees
Many years ago I used a Friends of Animals certificate for low-cost spay: http://www.friendsofanimals.org/programs/spay-neuter/index.html
Kathy, Sometimes you town or county have free or very cheap neutering and spaying. They give you a coupon or send you to where you need to go. It shouldn't be more that $250 for both. My male was $90. Females a bit more. Just keep looking, use the internet etc. Good luck!
That is highway robbery. Try shelters that have coupons for spay and neuter that you can use at local vets. Definitely call around. I know some vets won't do surgery without blood work, exam, et cetera. But others will do it without all that work. And quite frankly, I think they are bilking people on that. Shelters do NOT do preliminary blood work before doing surgery, it's too expensive. So vets SHOULD give people the right to pass on that. Also, check spay and neuter programs in your area. http://www.awfct.org/content/ConnecticutSNClinics.pdf Has a list of clinics. Here's another online resource. http://www.awfct.org/faqs.htm#WhySpayNeuter For $800 you could practically drive to Oregon and get both done for under $200--at least you'd all get a vacation too. Good luck!
People who want to help wildlife, should plant vegetation that has flowers and fruit and nuts to feed them. manicured lawns and poisoned bugs do NOT feed but kill wildlife. Put eggshells outside now for songbirds who need calcium for their spring eggs, and hang bird feeders, squirrel feeders and anything else you know the willife needs that's no longer available in your buildt up neighborhood.
Awesome website to help animals......www.helpingcall.org
Kathy, Ask a shelter in your city who offers low cost spay/neuter. Nearly every city has a low cost spay/neuter clinic (most shelters will do it for little or no cost). If your city does not, consult other vets in your town and get estimates. Don't be afraid to tell them your situation as most vets do have a heart and most vets have discounts for newly rescued animals. If the vet that you 1st consulted does not, you should find a different one anyway. Please try to keep them. They are wonderful animals and they need you desparately. It is very hard on both dogs and cats to be moved from place to place as they are just like people, very sensative. They definately understand abandonment. And, although you think someone else may be a good home, that is not always the case. Good luck, Kathy.
Well said Kelly. Domestic or wild ,help these creatures as much as possible. Animals can survive in almost any conditions ,extreme heat, bug infested swamps and forests, and outdoors in the middle of winter without shelter. People can't. Animals do whatever they have to do to get food, regardless of weather conditions or danger to themselves. People buy their food at stores because most don't know any other way and except for a few exceptions if the stores ever closed panic would ensue and people would be unable to feed themselves. Animals only kill to eat or protect their young. People will kill for any reason including hate. Animals don't hate. Animals don't destroy their environment...people do. People poison their own environment and subsequently the environment of these very creatures. Animals know that you don't mess where you eat. Humans claim that because they have advanced brains and can develop weapons we are more intelligent than any other creature. So we kill each other and any other innocent creatures that happen to be unlucky enough to be in the vicinity. Very intelligent!! Any human smug enough to think that we are smarter than animals better spend some time observing these magnificent pieces of God's handywork in their own environment. The only thing they can't adapt to is people. Try watching instead of shooting. You might learn something.
Spread love and peace. Eat veggies not meat!