Traditionally Black Friday is the highly anticipated shopping event held the day after Thanksgiving when retailers slash prices to kick off the holiday gift buying season.  It is also a day of competing with fellow shoppers over parking spaces, pushin...]]>   If you are looking for an alternative way to celebrate Thanksgiving that doesn’t include plating a turkey on your table, you might be interested in the Adopt-a-Turkey Project.   Carol M. never dreamed she would be the guardian for a rescued turke...]]> Recently I posted an update that many of the Pit bull dogs seized in the biggest multi-state dogfighting raid on July 8, 2009 were on their way to new cities. They had been housed at a temporary shelter with the Humane Society of Missouri.   The day...]]>   If you ask any former smoker about “kicking the habit” they will probably tell you that it was one of the hardest things they have ever done.  November 19, 2009 marks the 34th American Cancer Society’s Great American Smo...]]> As cities and counties scramble to get in under the wire of a January 1, 2010 deadline, California may inadvertently become the first state to ban the declawing of domestic cats.   Ironically, the regulation has become important to many local munici...]]> President and CEO of the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Ed Sayres issued a press release today in an effort to soften the blow about his organization’s decision to euthanize Oreo – a dog that made nationa...]]>   More than 400 Pit bull dogs seized in the largest multi-state dog fighting raid in U.S. history have been waiting since July to learn their fate.  This week dozens of them are on their way to new homes.   On July 8, 2009 federal agents, local law...]]> Earlier this year, Pantera was just another abandoned dog sitting in one of the 600 kennels at the Chicago Ridge Animal Welfare League.  The young black Labrador retriever had been surrendered to the shelter after his owner’s landlord banned pets from...]]> Last week I wrote about the ASPCA Forensics Team being sent to collect evidence in an animal cruelty case at the Memphis Animal Shelter.  The investigation began after a local resident took pictures of starving and abused cats and dogs at the cit...]]> Shocking video was released last week about the cruel treatment of newborn calves, at Bushway Packing, Inc. – a slaughterhouse in Vermont.    It’s hard to say which part of this story is more intolerable. The fact that these ca...]]>