May 17, 2012

Tough Times For Cat And Dog Adoptions

Chow Mix Puppy

I always have my eye out for dog and cat articles in newspaper, magazines, or on the internet. Unfortunately, I’ve seen a reoccurring theme lately and that is that Animal Shelters across the country are in the middle of a crisis. Animal shelters have record numbers of cats and dogs and they are having difficult [...]

Three Out Of Four Animals Euthanized At Shelter

Kitties

It’s an amazing statistic, but a common one at many shelters these days. This morning I read an article Las Cruces Sun News today about Animal Shelter Euthanasia Rates Remains High. They mention some alarming statistics including the one stated in the title of this article: “Three out of four of the roughly 1,500 animals [...]

Things Adult Drivers Prohibit In Their Vehicle – Pets #3!

USA Today Snapshot

While browsing the news the other day I came across this USA Today Snapshot survey of things adult drivers prohibit in their vehicles. I’m sure off the top of your head you can think of most of the responses in the survey and it doesn’t surprise me that Pets are #3 on this list. I [...]

3 Interesting Animal Shelter Facts

Foster Parents

It was a busy weekend and I’ll probably write a few posts about it over the next couple days. Sunday afternoon we visited the Irvine Animal Shelter for the Orange County Super Pet Adoption. As I mentioned in a previous post I visited the Pet Adoption last year, but this years event was bigger and [...]

Orange County Super Pet Aoption Event

adoption_flyer

This Sunday, July 27th the Irvine Animal Care Center will be hosting the second annual Orange County Super Adoption Event. I live in Irvine and the Irvine Animal Care Center is only about 10 minutes from my house. I was also lucky enough to attend the inaugural event last year. If you are interested in [...]

Questions About Crate Training

Monty the Standard Poodle

One of my friends just sent me an email to let me know she just got a new puppy and has started him on his crate training. Unfortunately she’s having some issues with the crate training. It seems that her puppy is having some separation anxiety when left alone. Here’s the question she sent me [...]

How To Adopt A Puppy

Linus in a pile of laundry

Our story on how to adopt a puppy began over 7 years ago when we visited a few backyard breeders for my 32nd birthday.  Of course, we did not end up with a purebred puppy, but instead found the perfect Australian Shepherd mixed puppy and adopted him almost immediately at our local animal shelter. ———–> I’ve always [...]