Showing 85 posts from October 2008
Source: The Gazette, October 25, 2008 - 3:44PMm by Bill Reed
Nine-year-old Cameron Hughes was excited to run his first lemonade stand this summer and pocket a little cash. Then he thought someone else needed the money more than he did.
His mom, Debra Hughes, told him about a local group that saves dogs from puppy mills, [...]
Appeal court judges overturn lower court ruling, saying Ontario law is justified and not ‘arbitrary’
Source: TheStar, Oct 25, 2008 04:30 AM, by Tanya Talaga
Any dog that looks, wags and woofs like a pit bull is not welcome in Ontario, the province’s highest court has ruled.
The Ontario Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the province’s controversial [...]
Source: Reuters, Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:53am GMT
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A dog was hailed as a hero on Sunday after it risked its life to save a litter of newborn kittens from a house fire, rescuers said.
In a case which gives the lie to the saying about ‘fighting like cats and dogs’, the terrier cross [...]
Pets were seized from puppy mill
Source: The Gazette, MAX HARRO
The city’s main animal shelter is hoping the 118 animals seized from a filthy puppy mill north of Montreal Friday will be freed from their owner’s legal custody this week to find better homes.
The 110 dogs, seven cats and one rabbit were being fed, cared for [...]
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, By SANDRA ECKSTEIN, Sunday, October 26, 2008
Mimi Ausland, 12, of Bend, Ore., was looking for a way to help the animals at her local animal shelter.
She’d been volunteering there since she was 7 years old and knew how great the need was. Then she saw a site her dad, Kelly Ausland, [...]
