Love this one! Now they just take dogs because they feel like it? Usually there is at least some pretense that the dogs are sick or suffering in some way, but now they are just taking perfectly healthy dogs. Well, I’ll tell you what happened here. Someone decided that 82 dogs [...]
Not content to steal animals this Memorial Day weekend, Austin police decide to dispense with the formalities and go about shooting them in parks instead.
In front of families with children.
At Emma Long Park in Northwest Austin, this Memorial Day was one to be remembered for sure. Not for the shrieks of delight along the waters [...]
In November, Christine Attanasio went to the Prince George’s County Animal Shelter to adopt a dog. She fell for a healthy beagle mix named CeeCee, a 2-year-old female scheduled to be euthanized that day.”No, no, no,” Attanasio recalled telling a shelter worker. “I’ll take her.”The shelter would not budge. Attanasio asked to speak to [...]
Not a dogfighting ring, or a cockfighting ring, but a rescue. An 18 year old one, in fact. 18 years of saving animals from kill shelters, giving them a second chance. That deserves a medal. But what it gets is an arrest.
This is why, rescuers, you don’t allow adopters into [...]
Unfortunately, not one stolen by animal control, but I guess it is a step in the right direction.
In February, the mayor of Alice, Texas, agreed to take care of the neighbor’s dog in their absence. Upon their return she lied to them and told them the dog was dead and she had buried it, [...]
Honolulu police, supported by the Hawaiian Humane Society, have confiscated dozens of dogs in recent weeks from homeless encampments along the Wai’anae Coast as part of a beefed-up effort to enforce city park laws.
Now, it bothers us that this theft would have the support of the Hawaiian Humane Society, but as we have lately learned, [...]
So, Monday this was posed to Austin Rescue (with permission to crosspost):
PERMISSION TO CROSS POST
Last Friday Bev Gainer (GSD Rescue of Central Texas) and I took an
emaciated young female Cattle Dog mix and her 6 nursing pups (about 4 weeks
old) from a woman who was unable to care for them. Bobbi, the mother dog,
had lived [...]
KENT - A town justice this morning dismissed 10 animal abuse and neglect charges against Kent dog breeder Linda Nelson and slammed the actions of a 13-year Putnam County sheriff’s deputy who led the search of Nelson’s house and seizure of her dogs.
In his ruling, Judge J. Peter Collins cited “misconduct” by Deputy Barbara Dunn [...]
TX-RPOA E-News
From Responsible Pet Owners Alliance,
the reasonable voice regarding animal issues in Texas.
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance is an animal welfare organization,
not “animal rights” and, yes, there is a difference.
Permission granted to crosspost.
March 2, 2008
The email below is circulating among many elists and is confirmed to be true
by an RPOA member with English Setters. The recently [...]
On Friday, February 15, 2008, the founder of All Setter Rescue, Bob
Attleson, had the doors at his residence physically kicked (rammed) in
and ‘HIS’ dogs [English Setters], seized by the City of Littleton. He had one 18
month old male, three of his champion bitches and 4 nine week old puppies. The
dogs were taken with a court [...]
