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Washington puppy-mill dogs arrived in Portland today (with video)
by Jacques Von Lunen , Special to The Oregonian
Saturday May 30, 2009, 7:22 PM
About 100 dogs from a puppy mill in Washington arrived at the Oregon Humane Society today.
These miniature American Eskimo dogs are part of the 371 dogs seized Wednesday at a Kennewick, Wash., puppy mill owned by Ella Stewart, 66. Benton County sheriff’s officials and local animal rescue volunteers seized the dogs from Stewart’s home and housed them at the Benton County fairgrounds.
OHS was contacted by representatives of the Humane Society of the United States and offered to take 100 of the dogs.
Three vans left Portland this morning to pick up the dogs. Temperatures were high today in Kennewick, about 93 degrees, so the team tried to get the dogs to the Portland shelter as quickly as possible. OHS animal care manager Autumn White was on site and said that about half the dogs are in bad shape with urine burns and coats matted with fecal matter. OHS had volunteer groomers on standby for Sunday and Monday to help these animals.
– Jacques Von Lunen; pets@jvonlunen.com
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This Pretty Much Sums It Up, Doesn’t It? – The Importance Of Spaying & Neutering Your Pet(s)…
As a nation, we claim to love cats and dogs. Millions of households have pets, and billions of dollars are spent yearly on pet supplies and food. But as a nation, we should take a hard, sobering look at a different annual statistic: the millions of dogs and cats given up to shelters or left to die on the streets. And the numbers tell only half the story.
Every cat or dog who dies as a result of pet overpopulation—whether humanely in a shelter or by injury, disease, or neglect—is an animal who, more often than not, would have made a wonderful companion, if given the chance. Tremendous as the problem of pet overpopulation is, it can be solved if each of us takes just one small step, starting with not allowing our animals to breed. Here’s information about this crisis and why spaying and neutering is the first step to a solution.
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LETTER: Use care when introducing new pets
February 03, 2009 6:00 AM
Use care when introducing
new pets
The purpose of this letter is to offer a reply to Editor Bob Unger regarding his Jan. 25 column, "Doggone good advice for the First Family." I work for the Worcester Animal Rescue League, and Mr. Unger did in fact adopt a dog named Bear from our shelter on Jan. 10.
On Jan. 20, I received a call explaining that the family was having a difficult time introducing Bear to their cat, Larry. Bear was apparently taking every chance he had to chase the cat. Never during the course of adoption did the shelter sugarcoat the fact that this would be a difficult transition. I explained that the shelter would be able to extend their trial period with Bear to one month, provided that the family work daily on this issue. I further explained that a situation like this could potentially take several months to work out, if at all. The fact that the dog was listed as a retriever mix is in fact accurate. And there is always a possibility that the mix is with a hound.
The Ungers loved Bear already, and were willing to take the advice I offered when I referred them to the following Web site: http://www.canismajor.com/dog/dogscats.html. This Web site detailed several effective ways to train a dog with a high prey drive to live peacefully with cats. With the extreme vigilance of the owner, over time, it is usually possible to stop a dog from chasing a cat. Never did the article suggest leaving the two animals unattended. In fact, it specifically stated not to do so. The instructions explained how to manufacture a situation in which the family was Read more
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‘Adopting’ 27 Dogs Leads Woman to New Calling
By Amy Lieberman
January 4, 2009
Colleen Spalioni, above, reportedly adopted 27 dogs from a shelter two weeks ago, yet she says that’s not so. She went to replace her deceased dog Barney, above, but decided to help other dogs find homes. (Photos Courtesy of Colleen Spalione)
SPARKS, Nev. — Woman adopts 27 dogs.
The headlines have become viral on the Internet over the past two weeks, hitting as far as India and New Zealand.
But there is one minor aspect of the bizarre story that went untold, Colleen Spalione revealed to Pet Pulse.
"I never went to that shelter with the intention of adopting 27 dogs," Spalione, 43, said. "They keep on saying that I adopted them, but it wasn’t true. I only transported these dogs with the intention of adopting one for my family to replace Barney."
Barney was Spalione’s 2-year-old pointer that was hit by a car in November. The loss was devastating for Spalione, who cradled the dog when he died in her arms shortly after the accident.
"I was very upset," she said, tearing up in a phone interview. "I slept with him [Barney's body] overnight and would have kept him for another day, but there was an odor. I had him cremated and the hardest thing for me to do was to take him to the cremation center and walk away. I didn’t want to let him go."
Spaliones grief left her incapable of eating — after four days, she visited the doctor, concerned about her diabetes.
The doctor’s advice was simple: Get another dog, he told Spalione.
So the mother of five children, ranging in age from 13 to 23, set out to find the dog who could help replace Barney. The task proved more difficult than Spalione had anticipated.
She first located two different Barney look-alikes in Read more
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