| Keeping cat population in check | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:07:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fewer cats are being euthanized nationwide these days because more responsible owners are spaying and neutering, and keeping cats indoors. Parsippany Animal Supporters Society is an exceptional example of a group with both an active spay/neuter program for household cats, plus a trap, neuter and return policy for ferals (strays or alley cats). While much more needs to be done to lower the number of cats euthanized every year for lack of homes, the ASPCA says significantly fewer cats are needlessly euthanized. However, statistics vary from state to state and city to city, which makes it difficult to cite a general percentile. HSUS says about every eight seconds a cat or dog is euthanized in a U.S. shelter, some due to illness or injury, but most are victims of human failure to provide proper care.... | |
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| | | MN Dog and Cat Breeders Act Aims to Regulate Breeders | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:09:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Minnesota Senate Bill 121, known as the Dog and Cat Breeders Bill, has been introduced by Senators Betzold and Koering. It seeks to establish breeder licensing, inspection of all "kennels", and unproven care standards. If passed and signed into law, the changes imposed by this bill would have a profound impact on dog breeders in Minnesota. It is imperative that breeders and concerned dog owners contact their senator and the committee chairman to express their opposition. The American Kennel Club strongly supports humane treatment of dogs, including an adequate and nutritious diet, clean water, clean living conditions, regular veterinary care, kind and responsive human companionship, and training in appropriate behavior. However, many of the changes proposed by SB 121 are impractical, unenforceable, and costly.... | |
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| | | Exempted lynx: Feds opt not to designate critical habitat in Maine | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:15:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Federal officials have exempted all Canada lynx habitat in Maine from a rarely used but highly controversial provision of the Endangered Species Act, setting the stage for more lawsuits over the reclusive cat. In a drastic rewrite of the agency's original proposal, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opted not to designate about 10,600 square miles in Maine and more than 5,000 square miles in western and midwestern states as "critical habitat" for the federally protected lynx. Agency representatives said Wednesday that the decision should not hurt lynx populations, which are still protected from harm or harassment under the Endangered Species Act. Instead, officials said, the exemption will help the agency maintain good relations with landowners where lynx live. But several environmental groups involved in the long and costly legal battle over protection of the lynx denounced that rationale.... | |
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| | | Ashford to Stand Giant's Causeway for Private Fee | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:20:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | Ashford Stud announced leading third-crop sire Giant's Causeway will stand for a private fee in 2007. The 9-year-old son of Storm Cat is the sire of 14 stakes winners this year. Giant's Causeway covered 191 mares in 2006 at the Versailles, Ky., farm. His fee that breeding season was $300,000. Giant's Causeway, who is out of the Rahy mare Mariah's Storm, has sired a total of 21 stakes winners. Ashford also announced the fee for Johannesburg, who is second on the first crop sires list, has been upped to $65,000 from $25,000, and that Fusaichi Pegasus' fee has been dropped from $125,000 to $75,000. Hennessy, who stood for $75,000 in 2006, will stand for $60,000 next year. Following are the fees for all Ashford stallions: Chapel Royal $10,000 Dehere $20,000 Fusaichi Pegasus $75,000 Giant's Causeway Private Grand Slam $35,000 Hennessy $60,000 Hold That Tiger $10,000 Johannesburg $65,000 Lion Heart $25,000 Monashee Mountain $7,500 Powerscourt $10,000 Royal Academy $15,000 Tale of the Cat $37,500 Thunder Gulch $30,000 Van Nistelrooy $7,500 Woodman $20,000 Copyright © 2006 The Blood-Horse, Inc.... | |
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| | | Residents seek ways to help | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:33:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Chandler resident Patty Bolts heard the wailing and screeching outside her front yard window 5 a.m. in the morning last month, she ran out to see what the commotion was about in her bare feet and nightgown.To her horror, a pair of unleashed-pit bulls was ripping apart a feral mother cat and one of her kittens right before her eyes.Without considering her own safety, she ran out into the darkness to try and save the cats, which she diligently provided food and water for very day."I got so mad when I saw what was happening," she said. "I screamed and shouted at the dogs and waved my arms at them. I was lucky because they ran across the street and sat on a neighbor's yard glaring at me. It didn't make a difference. It was too late. The momma cat and her kittens were already dead."The mother cat's second kitten managed to escape the jaws of the dogs by hiding under the woman's car and working its way into the engine compartment.... | |
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| | | Volunteers still needed for Make A Difference Day | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:08:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two local children's agencies are in need of landscaping and other minor work. They have all the supplies. The only thing missing is the volunteers. And The Children's Home Society and The House Next Door are not alone. Pig Tales Sanctuary needs help fixing the outer fence to keep wild pigs from breeding with more than 700 pigs in the Bunnell shelter. About a dozen agencies are still in need of volunteers for close to 20 projects for the 16th annual Make A Difference Day on Saturday. The event, sponsored nationally by USA Weekend, which is carried in the Sunday News-Journal, and the Points of Light Foundation, is the nation's largest day of volunteering. Laura Zublionis, director of the Volunteer Center for the United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties, which organizes the event locally, said thousands of volunteers have committed to about 60 projects in the two-county area.... | |
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| | | Aragorn to Stand at Lane's End | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:06:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Multiple grade I winner and millionaire Aragorn, who has won four consecutive graded stakes, will enter stud in 2007 at William S. Farish's Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky. Bred and raced by Belinda and Roy Strudwick's Ballygallon Stud, Irish-bred Aragorn began his current win streak in the Shoemaker Breeders' Cup Mile Stakes (gr. IT) in May at Hollywood Park, where he just missed the course and stakes record in a 1:32.95 effort. At Del Mar, he set a course record of 1:44.79 for 1 1/8 miles in the Eddie Read Handicap (gr. IT) while winning by four lengths. In his next start for trainer Neil Drysdale, Aragorn powered his way to a victory in the mile Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. IIT) and then established himself at the top of the North American mile division with a score in 1:32.87 in the Oct.... | |
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| | | Surge of stray babies arrive at zoo nursery | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:08:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | A COMBINATION of the spring breeding season and recent wild weather, including violent windstorms, has led to a surge in the number of native newborns being delivered to Taronga Zoo. Ringtail possums, masked lapwing chicks and even a mouse-sized bandicoot are among the baby animals left injured or orphaned across Sydney. The public has been taking the little wild animals to the zoo, where they are treated before being transferred to the 24-hour care of a veterinary nurse. Sydney's native wildlife can often battle to survive in busy urban areas, with cats and cars their greatest enemies, veterinary nurse Annabelle Sehlmeier said. A 40-day-old bandicoot, a rarely seen species in the city, was brought in last week after being found by a Narrabeen resident.... | |
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| | | Discounted De-Sexing Means No Excuse | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:11:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Thousands of unwanted cats and kittens die in Auckland every single year due to starvation and disease. This problem can be prevented by responsible pet ownership, specifically, by ensuring that your cat has been de-sexed by 5-6 months of age. Auckland Cat Rescue is calling on pet owners to help reduce the number of stray and unwanted cats. “There are not enough homes for all stray and unwanted cats in Auckland” warns Auckland Cat Rescue Chairperson Jennie Allan “The cats that have the fortune to come into our organisation and get homes are the lucky ones - Cat owners must take seriously the need to de-sex their cats before they reach maturity at 5-6 months old. We don’t need more kittens when it could be prevented,” she says. One of the biggest barriers to de-sexing is the cost.... | |
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| | | Finally, you can enjoy the purr without a sneeze | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 7:08:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | A small California biotech company says it has successfully found the Holy Grail of the $35 billion pet industry: a hypoallergenic cat. At the start of next year, the first kittens - which the company calls "lifestyle pets" - will be delivered to eager owners who have been carefully screened and on a waiting list for more than two years. .... | |
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