Did They Just Give Up On This Dog Too Soon?

A Dog that was covered in a tar like substance was shot because the Marshall County animal control officer Kevin Hooks decided that it was too much to clean the dog.

When I read this it made me upset to think that they didn’t even try and clean the poor dog before they killed him. And to think that they use a scale of one to ten on who is to die is even more upsetting.

After Kevin Hooks called a veterinarian he said: it was going to be hard to get all the tar off, It would be very taxing on him and he would not have survived.

So now a dog that was around seven months old was killed because they gave up maybe too soon and they didn’t even try.

Read the article by David Moore here.

The Ten Most Aggressive Dogs?

When I read this article it took me back a little to find out that two of my dogs were on the top ten lists coming in at first and second place. Who would have thought that a Dachshund would have taken first place and then to see that the Chihuahua came in second place has really got me laughing now.

The only signs I have ever seen any of my dogs with a little bit of aggression was the Chihuahua who is now thirteen years old, was when he wants to lay down and not be touch, it comes with old age.

Then you read about all these towns that have called the Pit-Bull one of the most aggressive dogs that brought fear to their town. I still believe that all dogs are kind and the ones that turn bad are due to the owners fault.

See if your dog has made the list here.

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Who Is Stealing The Dogs In Texas

That’s what the Hurst Police in Texas would like to know. In the past week three dogs have been taken from homes and a car in a mall parking lot.

You would think with all the dogs that are in shelters just looking for a new home you wouldn’t need to steal a dog, right? Well I guess not in Texas they need to steal them down there.

Read the article by Domingo Ramirez Jr. here.

Help Support This Year’s Home 4 The Holidays

Iams Home 4 The Holidays & Hilary Swank Aim To Place 1.5 Million Pets Into Homes This Holiday Season!

(IH4TH) needs your help to place 1.5 million pets into loving homes by January 4, 2010!



Last year, the program’s goal of helping 1 million pets get adopted within three months was outdone when 1,202,701 pets were placed in homes — including Rumi, adopted by two-time Academy Award® winner and 2009 IH4TH ambassador Hilary Swank.

With nearly 8 million homeless animals in the U.S. today, and almost half scheduled to be euthanized this year alone, our help is needed now more than ever. And who better to give these animals a voice than Hilary Swank?

In partnership with the Helen Woodward Animal Center, IH4TH is one of the most successful pet adoption programs in the world and brings together nearly 3,500 animal organizations worldwide. Since 1999, IH4TH has helped more than 3 million animals find homes and hopes to continue breaking the goals they set each year.

To learn more about how to make a difference in the life of a homeless pet — such as adopting, volunteering or donating — please visit IH4TH.COM and join us on Facebook and Twitter. Want to be involved even more? Join our blogging program

ADOPTION FACTS
• As many as 8 million animals are homeless in the U.S.
• Nearly 4 million orphaned dogs and cats will be euthanized this year due to shelter over-crowding and lack of awareness about the importance of pet adoption.
• More than 25 percent of all dogs in shelters are purebreds.
• IH4TH helped 1,202,751 pets find homes last year alone.
• In Oct. 2008 Hilary Swank adopted Rumi through IH4TH at a Los Angeles shelter.
• Over the past decade more than 3 million pets –1,638,515 dogs, 1,505,690 cats and 134,062 “other” animals – have been adopted through IH4TH.
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ABOUT IH4TH.COM
IH4TH.COM is a great resource for anyone who wants to get involved with helping homeless pets - offering tips about adoption, volunteering at a shelter and important information for new pet parents.

Every family that adopts a pet through IH4TH will receive an adoption kit and a DVD loaded with important information including: bringing a new pet into your family training tips, pet care, nutrition information and coupons.

WIN FREE FOOD FOR YOUR FAVORITE SHELTER
With our “Feed Pets in Need” program, you can help bring much needed food to your favorite IH4TH shelter by simply casting a vote at IH4TH.COM. Each month, for the next 13 months, the shelter with the most votes gets a month’s supply of free food! But why stop there? Enter our Life's Better Sweepstakes too and enter to win a FREE YEAR of food!

IH4TH’s 2009 AMBASSADOR – HILARY SWANK
Hilary Swank is “so proud to be working with Iams Home 4 the Holidays to help raise awareness about the importance of pet adoption," because it's a cause close to her heart. Swank has adopted many pets throughout her life, including her two dogs Karoo and Rumi. She rescued Karoo from the side of a road while filming in South Africa a few years ago and adopted Rumi last fall from a participating IH4TH shelter in Los Angeles.

IH4TH HISTORY
Mike Arms, president of the Helen Woodward Animal Center, founded IH4TH with support by Iams in 1999 with just 14 participating animal shelters in San Diego County. Since then the program has grown worldwide helping over 3 million pets find homes within the past decade. The 2008 IH4TH ambassador was Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives).


You can help by adopting a pet this holiday season at IH4TH.com and receive a complimentary adoption kit to help with your new family member.

Can’t adopt? Join our “Feed Pets in Need” program and help bring much needed food to your favorite IH4TH shelter by simply casting a vote at IH4TH.com.

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I Thought That I'd Share An E-Mail

If You Want...


If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and
never say it's not quite as good as his mothers ..

then adopt a dog.









If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long
and wherever you want ...




then adopt a dog.








If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn't care about football, and can sit next to you as you watch romantic movies ..

then adopt a dog.






If you want someone who is content to get on your bed just to warm
your feet and whom you can push off if he snores ...




then adopt a dog.








If you want someone who never criticizes what you do, doesn't care if
you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old, who acts as if every
word you say is especially worthy of listening to, and loves you
unconditionally,perpetually...



then adopt a dog.



BUT, on the other hand... if you want someone who will never come
when you call, ignores you totally when you come home, leaves hair all
over the place, walks all over you, runs around all night and only
comes home to eat and sleep, and acts as if your entire existence is
solely to ensure his happiness ..



then adopt a cat!

Now be honest, you thought I was gonna say .. marry a man, didn't you?

Send this to all the women you know to brighten their day.




You ...

... have a GREAT Day!!!

Another Lowlife Couple Just Abandon Their Dog

Photo by WMC-TV


The question again is how could you just get up and leave your pet dog locked up with no food or water behind. This couple Deah & Nicholas Martin from Memphis, TN did just that, when they moved out of their apartment.

The poor little one year old pit bull somehow survived being lock up for two weeks before he was found by a maintenance worker. The police have charged the two with animal cruelty charges for what they have done to this dog.

It’s so sad when you read about people just abandoning their pets with no care in the world, I wonder how they would feel if someone did that to them. When we go out and buy a pet it is suppose to be for life, there are not just some types of disposable items. They have feeling just like we do and need the love and care you would give your own child. I personally hope that the judge throws the book at these to lowlifes for what they did.

Read the article and see the video by Jason Miles here.