“In the end, I’ve got antibodies and a dog named Fauci.” That’s how Los Angeles-based lawyer Kari Milone says she’s choosing to look back on the eight months that she spent trying to adopt a rescue dog in 2020—a time period during which she not only lost her second dog in less than a year,…
Rescue Animals Are TIME’s 2020 Pet of the Year — TIME
Built over 50 years ago with donated supplies and volunteers, the Regina Humane Society (RHS) building doesn’t reflect the community’s expectations for how animals should be cared for or how animals and people should come together, says the organization’s executive director. Read More
Beginning Monday, two Los Angeles area animal centers will temporarily close as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “Fortunately, because of the incredible response from the L.A. community, many people have stepped up to foster or adopt animals,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said when announcing the closures of the West Valley and North Central…
As Canada and Saskatchewan endure the COVID-19 pandemic, many people across the country are spending more time alone at home — unless they have a fuzzy friend to keep them company. Read More
via How pets can help in a pandemic — and how you can help them — Saskatoon StarPhoenix
For those privileged enough to be able to work from home, there are still inconveniences with the new arrangement: social isolation, lack of access to free office coffee, difficulty making meetings work remotely. But it’s also introduced plenty of positives: judgment-free fashion choices, cutting the commute down to the distance between bed and desk and…
via How Pets Are Taking Their Thrones as the Stars of the Work-From-Home Paradigm Right Now — TIME
More pet owners are failing to vaccinate their animals, new figures show, and a UK animal charity is describing the growing problem as a “ticking time bomb” for pets. Millions of animals are being left unprotected and vulnerable to potentially fatal diseases such as cat flu, rabbit viral hemorrhagic disease and parvovirus, according to the…
via Vets Fear Anti-Vaccine Pet Owners Are Putting Their Animals’ Health at Risk — KTLA
Full article by Michael Cavna – February 8, 2019, from The Washington Post here.
by Kim Wong-Shing – from MSN.COM
Reason #41,986 why we do not deserve dogs: Habs, an adorable spaniel dog, watches over his favorite plush toy while it’s in the wash to make sure that it’s safe. Now that’s loyalty.
Reason #41,987: That plush toy is a ridiculously oversized teddy bear, much larger than Habs himself.
Is it even legal to be this cute?!
Habs’s owner, Jacqueline Estey, didn’t originally intend for Habs to bond with the giant teddy bear. It belonged to her before Habs even joined the family. But soon after he arrived three years ago, he claimed the teddy bear as his own
Read the full article and see this adorable dog watch over his favourite teddy in the drier here.
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