Archive for the 'Pet Health' Category
Animal Welfare Professional ASPCA Site
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Veterinarians, shelter staff, law enforcement officials and volunteers now have their own ASPCA Professional Website at ASPCAPro.org The site has been created by professionals for professionals. Resources include tools for specialty areas such as adoptions, Canine Parvovirus, Feline Upper Respiratory Infections, Spaying and Neutering Surgeries, Shelter Medicine and Fundraising techniques.
ASPCAPro.org also contains information and [...]
BLM Auction of Ferret Habitat
Friday, October 12th, 2007Energy development and environmental protection are clashing yet again, this time in Colorado, where the Bureau of Land Management yesterday auctioned 150,000 acres of turf for oil and gas development. For months now, we’ve heard noise out of the BLM that their top goal is a reorganization to create a “one stop shop” for energy [...]
Rescued Ferrets in Trouble Again
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Disease that’s afflicting their only prey, the prairie dog, is slowing their rebound in wild.
WALL, S.D. — Black-footed ferrets — weasels with a burglar’s mask that were brought back after reaching the brink of extinction — are facing a new challenge from the spread of plague in prairie dogs, their only prey.
The disease has slowed [...]
Animal cruelty is considered a felony
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Betsy McLeod returned home last September to find her bunny’s cage empty. The bunny, Coco, wasn’t hiding under the bed or with McLeod’s roommates though. She was dead.
The bunny that McLeod, Overland Park sophomore, bought nearly three months before had been thrown off her balcony by a man who claimed he was too drunk to [...]
Summer Heat and Dogs, Do Not Mix
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007A Chihuahua died after being left in a closed vehicle outside of Home Depot in Portsmouth, NE in 95-degree weather. The owner had run into Home Depot with the dog and had thrown cold water on it and put it in front of a fan in an attempt to revive it, but by the time [...]
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