Posts tagged "rescue"

Peluso the Maltipoo - Cute Pet of the Day

by Paw Nation Staff (Subscribe to Paw Nation Staff's posts): Apr 18th 2011 9:00AM Filed Under: Dogs, Cute Pet of the Day

Maltipoo Dog Picture Allison Hatfield

Cute Pet Name: Peluso

Location: Dallas

Age: 18 months

Dog Breed: Maltipoo

Favorite Treats: Bananas and peanut butter.

Likes: Playing with other dogs, scoping out the squirrel situation, riding in the car, scoping out the squirrel situation while riding in the car.

Dislikes: Loud noises, brooms, and baby strollers.

Weird Quirks: Peluso stands on his head -- a lot. He also howls with his head up high whenever he hears a fire truck or police siren.

Fun Fact: Peluso was surrendered to a shelter in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and rescued by a group called Save a Mexican Mutt. He made an 18-hour road trip with three other rescue dogs, who are all also now happily living in Texas.

Congratulations to our submitter, Allison Hatfield. If you'd like to submit your pet, upload your favorite pet photos to our Flickr pool!

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140 Years of Animal Rescue - How the Dutchess County NY SPCA Gets It Done

by Josh Loposer (Subscribe to Josh Loposer's posts): Mar 22nd 2011 1:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pet Adoption

Jami Landry, Dutchess County SPCA Senior Humane Law Officer, Jami Landry, with Blitzen. Credit: On Location Studios

Animal Shelter: The Dutchess County SPCA

Location: Hyde Park, N.Y.

Formed in 1871 by a few concerned and exceptional citizens -- Matthew Vassar (of Vassar College), John Adriance (Adriance Memorial Library was named for him) and Samuel Morse (as in Morse code) -- the DSPCA protects the abused and abandoned animals of Dutchess County. Starting out in a small holding facility in Poughkeepsie, the DCSPCA eventually outgrew its humble digs and found a home in Hyde Park in 1960.

Over the years, the DCSPCA has come to specialize in large-scale animal seizures. That is, the shelter works with local officials to combat the problem of animal hoarding. According to Executive Director Joyce Garrity, when an animal hoarding situation is discovered, it often involves many animals that are in very bad health. Fortunately, the DCSPCA has highly skilled human law officers (animal cops) to handle the job!

This year, the DCSPCA is celebrating its 140th birthday -- 980 dog years! (Sort of.) In honor of this milestone in both human and canine years, the DCSPCA has broken ground on a new adoption and education center. The current facility will be renovated and serve as intake and rehabilitation for incoming animals, as well as housing its spay/neuter clinic. They talk with Paw Nation about how they help pets.

Dog Saved by Splashing Dolphins

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts): Feb 25th 2011 5:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News

We've heard of dogs rescuing dogs and dolphins rescuing people (well, Dick Van Dyke, anyway), but this story is truly one to remember.

Turbo, an 11-year-old Doberman, has had enough doggie paddling to last a lifetime after a frightening night spent in a canal near his home in Marco Island, Fla. Fortunately for the waterlogged dog, the sea held some good Samaritans in a surprising form -- dolphins!

It was the persistent splashing of the dolphins that wouldn't leave Turbo's side that drew the attention of a neighbor, according to WBBH-TV, and may have saved the dog's life. The neighbor called 911, and then jumped in the shallow water to rescue the paddling pooch.

25 Bolivian Lions Get New Homes in Colorado Thanks to Bob Barker

by Jennipher Walters (Subscribe to Jennipher Walters's posts): Feb 17th 2011 4:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets, Pets News

The price was right for television personality and longtime animal rights activist Bob Barker Wednesday when he paid for 25 circus lions to be airlifted from Bolivia to Colorado. The 13 males and 12 females were left without a place to live after Bolivia passed a law last year prohibiting all performances involving animals due to unethical and deplorable living conditions.

Thanks to the rescue, the 25 lions will now call the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo., home. For more on this amazing feel-good story, watch the video below from our pals at "Good Morning America."

Mollywood - A Sanctuary for Injured and Sick Birds

by Rose Martelli (Subscribe to Rose Martelli's posts): Aug 4th 2010 11:00AM Filed Under: Birds, Exotic Pets

sanctuary for birds Betsy Lott

Shelter: Mollywood, a not-for-profit, no-kill avian sanctuary

Location: Bellingham, Wash.

Founded in 2002 by Betsy Lott, Mollywood operates on an eight-acre farm and serves as home to abandoned, injured and ill parrots, cockatoos, cockatiels, parakeets, macaws, amazons and conures. Lott's love for these kinds of birds grew slowly over many years. She used to run an ad hoc rescue shelter out of her house before officially forming Mollywood. Unlike many small shelter organizations, Mollywood focuses on providing lifetime care for health-impaired birds. "We are able to make the birds happy on a different level," Lott says. "For a lot of them, it really is just about being in a flock."

How many birds do you take in a year?
Oh, there's never a consistent or set number. In one four-month stretch, we took in 27 cockatiels, 32 parakeets, six finches, three conures, two Amazons, two cockatoos and a macaw.

How do most of your rescues find their way to Mollywood?
The Humane Society has my name, so I'm there every single week without fail. Sometimes two or three times a week. Occasionally birds are flown in from other parts of the country.

Piglet Is a Rock Star Rescue at Farm Sanctuary

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts): Jul 26th 2010 11:00AM Filed Under: Pets News, Farm Animals

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Little Kim Gordon, a 6-week-old piglet named after the bass player for legendary band Sonic Youth, didn't start life as a rock star. In fact, she had a pretty rocky start, falling out of a transport truck in South Dakota and wandering aimlessly for hours, suffering road rash from her fall and sunburn from the exposure to the elements. But this little pig's luck turned around when a couple made a wrong turn and discovered the injured animal.

Lanore Hahn -- who was traveling with her boyfriend on his rock band tour -- saw the scared piglet and captured her, intending to return her to her rightful owners. However, after asking around and examining her injuries, Hahn learned that the little porker had mostly likely fallen off a transport truck and, if she were turned into the authorities, they'd probably shoot her. While the pig fell into a 10-hour slumber, Hahn decided to take her home to Wisconsin, where she tended to the piglet's injuries and began to nurse the sweet swine back to health.

Late Thursday night, Kim Gordon was delivered to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y. According to Farm Sanctuary, the piglet has already lived up to her rock star name, sleeping in late on her first full day at her new home.

To support Kim Gordon or any other of the animals living at Farm Sanctuary, check out how you can get involved.

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts): Jul 20th 2010 12:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets, Pets News

This poor platypus left home to find a date, but ended up in a sad situation.

The year-old animal was found in a sewage treatment plant in New South Wales, Australia, where special equipment had to be used to flush him out of a pipe, reports "Today." An expert said the little guy was right around the age where he would be wandering off in search of love, which is likely how he ended up where he did.

The platypus is being held to make sure he's in good health. After so much time in the water, hypothermia was a bit of a concern. He's expected to be released sometime this week, at which point he can resume his journey of the heart.

by Paw Nation Staff (Subscribe to Paw Nation Staff's posts): Jul 16th 2010 9:00AM Filed Under: Cats, Funny Animal Pictures, Cute Pet of the Day

Cute Pet of the Day

aerodream2001, Flickr

Name: Tweeds

Location: Boyertown, Pa.

Age: 1

Breed: Domestic Shorthair

Favorite Toy: Little toy balls he can carry in his mouth.

Favorite Treat: Temptations.

Likes: Sleeping, eating, and chasing his two sisters.

Dislikes: Vacuum cleaners and visitors.

Rescue Story: His mother was a feral cat, who was finally spayed last summer. She now lives with Tweeds and his two sisters and completes their happy family.

Congratulations to our submitter, aerodream2001. If you'd like to submit your pet, upload your favorite pet photos to our Flickr pool!

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by Kirsten Taylor (Subscribe to Kirsten Taylor's posts): Jun 16th 2010 11:00AM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News

Crossbreed terrier lost and found picture Courtesy of Sue Overment

Scruffy the canine escape artist is giving Welsh animal welfare officers a run for their money.

The 12-year-old trouble-making terrier has been rescued twice this year by the same inspector from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), in two different parts of of the U.K., BBC News reports.

Earlier this year, RSPCA inspector Julie Fadden helped to save Scruffy from a bad home situation in the town of Merthyr Tydfil. "The dog was living in very poor conditions, so I rescued him," Fadden told the South Wales Evening Post.

Last month, Scruffy was adopted by new owners in Swansea, some 60 miles away.

But just two days after moving in, Scruffy managed to escape his new digs and go for a wander. He apparently squeezed through a cat door, jumped over a wall, and made his way through a dense hedge before wandering down a busy road, BBC News reports.

Fadden was called in to rescue the dog, and was surprised when she recognized him as the pooch she'd saved from the other side of South Wales. Fortunately, Scruffy wasn't injured, and he'd already been microchipped by his new owners.

"We had everyone out searching and scouring the area looking for Scruffy," his new owner, Sue Overment, told BBC News. They were thrilled to be reunited with the pooch later that night.

"He looked really laid back without a care in the world," Overment told BBC News. "He's such a determined little mutt. We should rename him Harry Houdini."

The "Eagle Whisperer" Calms Trapped Bald Eagle And Saves Him

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts): Mar 8th 2010 11:00AM Filed Under: Birds

You might have a way with dogs or cats, but how about eagles? Raptor specialist Tim Brown put his bird-soothing skills to good use when a bald eagle became tangled in a rope in Sammamish, Wash. and nobody was able to get close enough to free it. With a soft whistle that he refers to as an "Eagle Song" (and, we like to think a gentle look in his eye), he quickly gained the eagle's trust and was able to calm him, hood him, and free him -- after which the frightened but mostly uninjured bird was transported to rehab facility.

Watch Brown's remarkable work below!

Pet Bull Rescued from Pond

by Rebecca Quimby (Subscribe to Rebecca Quimby's posts): Feb 1st 2010 5:00PM Filed Under: Pets News

Rescued Pet Bull picture gjeewaytee (off), Flickr

We've heard of firefighters saving cats stuck in trees, but this is a whole other bull, er, ball of wax!

Firefighters in the U.K. rescued a pet bull from a pond in Essex last week, according to the BBC. No word on why in the world the 20-year-old bull fell into the pond, but it could not stand up after four fire crews freed it with rescue equipment, so they propped it up with bales of hay. The sickly animal was taken to a shelter overnight and examined by a vet.

Watch the amazing rescue video on the BBC.

Horse Rescued From Icy Pond

by Eliot Glazer (Subscribe to Eliot Glazer's posts): Jan 26th 2010 1:00PM Filed Under: Pets News

Recently, in Leawood, Kan., a horse got himself into a bit of a mess when he ended up falling through the ice of a frozen pond. Though rescuers weren't sure they had enough man power to lift the four-hoofed fella from the freezing water, the horse was, inevitably, brought to safety and has since returned to the farm for a little R&R.

Stray Puppy Becomes Latest Rescue Mission for Soldier Overseas

by Rose Martelli (Subscribe to Rose Martelli's posts): Jan 5th 2010 5:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News, Hero Pets

Lucas May with puppy dog picture Amanda May

The efforts of a U.S. soldier to rescue a stray dog from his base in Afghanistan has ended in success, reports the Wichita Eagle.

Sgt. Lucas May of the Kansas Army National Guard has spent nine months stationed in Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, where a tiny mutt wandered onto camp about a month ago. According to the Wichita Eagle, May was reluctant at first to feed or even pet the pup, since it is "against military rules to keep local animals as pets." After a few days, May decided to call home to his wife, Amanda, who happens to work as a fundraising director for the Sedgwick County Animal Response Team in Kansas.

"He loves dogs, and he knows how much I love dogs," Amanda May told the Eagle. "I told him, 'We'll do everything we can to bring her home.'"

Sgt. May wrote to his superiors requesting that he be allowed to do whatever he could to help get the pup -- whom he named Bella -- to Kansas. His request was granted, but the estimated $2,500 needed to ship Bella from Afghanistan had to be arranged privately. When the Wichita Eagle first reported May's story on Sunday, Amanda May had collected $500. Since then, local movie-theater magnate Bill Warren of Warren Theaters donated the rest of the needed amount.

"Thanks to a generous donation by Bill Warren and Warren Theaters, we have more than enough to bring Bella home!" May wrote on her Facebook page. "We are continuing our fundraising efforts to help all the other stray dogs in Afghanistan."

For now, Bella is being held at a shelter in Kabul. Sgt. May hopes to be able to bring her to Kansas around the same time he returns home in March.

Oh My! Lion, Tiger and Bear are Best of Friends

by Kirsten Taylor (Subscribe to Kirsten Taylor's posts): Dec 11th 2009 4:30PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets

Tiger, Lion & Bear picture Fame Pictures

Last month, stepbrothers Shere Khan, Leo and Baloo moved into a new home together. Nothing unusual there, except that Shere Khan is a tiger, Leo a lion, and Baloo an American black bear. Oh my!

Police discovered the threesome in the back of a car during a drug bust in Atlanta in 2001. The animals, then just fuzzy cubs around two months old, were apparently being kept as pets by drug kingpins. After their rescue, they were sent to Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilition Center, an animal refuge in Locust Grove, Georgia, Noah's Ark's assistant director Diane Smith told Paw Nation.

"They got along so well as babies, they decided to keep them together," Smith told Paw Nation. Eight years on, the unlikely trio remains inseparable, eating, sleeping and romping together around their new enclosure. "I guess no one's ever told them they're different species," Smith said.

Shere Khan and Baloo are particularly close, she said, and the 350-pound tiger can often be seen nuzzling the half-ton bear like an overgrown housecat. Shere Khan and Baloo often get up early to play while Leo, a typical lion, spends most of the day sleeping. Once Leo finally rolls out of bed, the three spend the afternoons together.

The animals are still adjusting to their new enclosure, where, for the first time, they are on display to the visiting public. It has taken Shere Khan a while to get used to the new space, Smith said, but he's coming around -- especially with his buddies Leo and Baloo around for support. The new digs includes a sturdy wooden clubhouse where all three animals sleep together.

Noah's Ark staff hope to eventually expand the habitat to include a creek that runs behind their current enclosure. (Baloo and Shere Khan particularly like to splash around in the water.)

"They really do enjoy each other's company," Smith added. "They interact just like brothers."

To feast your eyes on more Shere Khan-Leo-Baloo adorableness -- including painfully cute baby pictures -- visit their Facebook fan page.

Rescue Tails: Portraits of Dogs and Their Celebrities

by Polly Brewster (Subscribe to Polly Brewster's posts): Nov 4th 2009 6:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Celebrity Pets, Photo Galleries

Fashion photographer Brian Nice spent three years and a lot of nights on friends' couches to put together Rescue Tails: Portraits of Dogs and Their Celebrities, available in stores today. The book is filled with photos of stars and their pooches, all of whom posed in an effort to raise money for the New York Humane Society and Much Love Animal Rescue in Los Angeles.

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Rescue Tails: Portraits of Dogs and Their Celebrities

Meet Buster, faithful companion to Brian Nice, the photographer and creative mind behind Rescue Tails. "I'm grateful to Buster for teaching me that a dog will rescue you, care for you, and love you right back." All proceeds from the book go directly to the New York Humane Society and Much Love Animal Rescue in Los Angeles.

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The photographer behind the book, Brian Nice, walked up to actor Ed Burns at a coffee shop in Montauk and asked if he'd pose for his book. "Luckily, he said yes,'" says the photographer's wife, Courtney.

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In Rescue Tails, Brooke Shields says of her pooch, "Darla has been my quiet support during the worst times of my life."

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American Pie star Jason Biggs isn't shy about admitting how much his dogs contribute to his mental health: "My dogs help me relax and put a smile on my face. They have saved me thousands of dollars in therapy and Zoloft."

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The book's creator Brian Nice and his wife, Courtney, loved all the photos in the book, but admitted that their favorite pics were of House star Lisa Edelstein and her three dogs: Sandwich, Bumpa, and Wolfe.

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Actor Mickey Rourke's love of his pets is well known. His chihuahua, Loki, pictured here, died this past February. When Rourke accepted his Golden Globe award for best actor in "The Wrestler," he thanked his dogs saying, "Sometimes when a man's alone, all you got is your dog."

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"The way our house was designed, you have to climb a minimum of one steep flight of stairs to let the dogs out," director Kevin Smith says in the book, "which means [my dogs] Scully and Mulder are responsible for the only form of cardio I get."

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"Jack Johnson [the musician] was the first person who agreed to let me photograph him and his dog," says Brian Nice. "He started it off."

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"Dolores prepared me for motherhood!" actress Debbie Mazar says in Rescue Tails. "My faithful companion for ten years, before my children came into this world, she taught me patience and responsibility."

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Beth Ostrosky Stern writes in her foreword to Rescue Tails, "My family only rescued pets. Our first rescued mutt, Suziedog, brought every one of us unconditional love..." Of her current dog (pictured) she says, "Bianca has taught me that nothing in life should be rushed, and take time to just enjoy each day."

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