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- Animal Control Runs Out of Pets After Cutting Adoption Fees - The Ledger
- Gov. Crist signs bill banning Burmese pythons as pets - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
- Help with routine tasks keep pets in home - Coloradoan
- Temple offering blessings for pets - Honolulu Advertiser
| Animal Control Runs Out of Pets After Cutting Adoption Fees - The Ledger Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:25 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.    
[ BARTOW ]The Polk County Sheriff's Office said its Animal Control division has run out of animals for adoption. Officials said they ran out of animals after cutting adoption fees to $5. The PCSO also had increased adoptions after it appealed to the public that it needed to make room for dogs recently seized in animal cruelty cases. Sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer said rescue organizations may still inquire about animals not available for public adoption. Officials said more dogs and cats should be available for public adoption at normal rates within a week or so. This story appeared in print on page B1 All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.
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| Gov. Crist signs bill banning Burmese pythons as pets - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Posted: 04 Jun 2010 07:34 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. TALLAHASSEE Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill banning the ownership of Burmese pythons and other reptiles, and a bill requiring tracking of over-the-counter ephedrine sales. The reptile bill (SB 318) signed Thursday prohibits importation and personal ownership of seven non-native species. Burmese pythons have become a problem in the wild when they escape or are released. One killed a 2-year-old Sumter County girl last year as she was sleeping. The pythons can grow as long as 20 feet. In the Everglades, pythons that escaped from pet shops during hurricanes or were released by owners who grew tired of them are threatening the region's balance of species. Florida wildlife officials have licensed trappers to kill pythons. Since 2000, more than 1,200 of the snakes have been removed from Everglades National Park alone. In January, 25 Burmese pythons were captured in South Florida by water management workers. Over the past three decades, about 1 million constrictors such as the Burmese have been imported into the United States. The ephedrine law (SB 1050) is designed to help catch those who use of the substance for making illegal methamphetamine. Crist also signed bills loosening Florida seaport regulations so they'll be more competitive with ports in other states (HB 963) and lifting restrictions on siting homes for developmentally disabled people (SB 1166). Get breaking news sent right to your inbox. Sign up for our Daily Newsletter at SunSentinel.com/joinus Information from the Sun Sentinel was used in this report. Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.  Ally Buster at 9:40 AM June 05, 2010 Governor Crist should use this law as precedent to put a bill to the state congress BANNING pit bull terriers, and dogs which contain substantial pit bull terrier genetics. These animals are DANGEROUS due to the fact that they are utterly unpredictable. It is only a matter of time before another child is killed by these "pets". andaoneforthemoney at 11:50 AM June 04, 2010 whoo hoo this gov. guy is on a roll !!!!!!!!!!!1 marcooch63 at 10:10 AM June 04, 2010 How about Banning CHECKPOINTS FOR ALCOHOLICS Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Help with routine tasks keep pets in home - Coloradoan Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:58 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Sugar Bebe has been part of Deby Sue Moore's life for more than a decade. Moore delivered the dog when she was being born breech, bottle-fed her from a puppy and they've been together pretty much every day since. But degenerative disc disease is taking away Moore's ability to walk, and that means Sugar wasn't getting the walks that the Australian shepherd/border collie/chow mix needed to stay healthy herself at nearly 14 years old. In good weather, Moore can use her power chair to accompany Sugar on short walks, but a near disaster involving black ice and oncoming traffic this winter has her wary. " This is my soul mate," Moore, 49, said, as Sugar wandered around the lobby of the Fort Collins assisted living facility where they live with two cats, Thomas and Sinatra. "She's been with me her whole life." Luckily for Moore, there's Pets Forever, a new nonprofit organization that helps the elderly and disabled care for their animals. CSU associate professor and psychologist Dr. Lori Kogan said she founded the program about a year ago after hearing what she called heartbreaking stories of elderly people forced to give up their pets. She said one elderly woman who was briefly hospitalized returned home to find her family, in from out of town, had given away her cat on the assumption she couldn't care for it. The cat was then euthanized, Kogan said. "It was awful. And they wouldn't let her get another cat," Kogan said. The story had a happy ending, however: After the woman's family found out about Pets Forever, she got a new cat. Kogan, whose research focuses on animal-human bonds, said studies have shown the elderly and disabled benefit from having pets by helping them stick to a routine, in addition to providing companionship. She said elderly pet owners also are more likely to be active, have lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, fewer doctors' visits for nonserious conditions, a better state of mind and are more social than people who don't own a pet. Kogan said studies also show elderly people with pets are better able to remain emotionally stable during a crisis than those without pets and are less absent-minded or confused. Less than 20 percent of seniors, however, own a pet because many worry they will not be able to handle the daily routine of a pet or cannot afford food supplies and veterinary bills, Kogan said. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Temple offering blessings for pets - Honolulu Advertiser Posted: 05 Jun 2010 05:02 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. The Rev. Masa Takizawa will lead the sixth annual pet blessing tomorrow at Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha-Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu. Leashed or caged pets and their owners of all faiths are invited to attend anytime between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. for a free blessing. Also offered will be "Pet Shave Ice" to help cool off our furry friends in the summer heat. The temple is located at 1239 Olomea St., off Houghtailing Street, next to Honolulu Ford. Parking is available on the street and in the shrine's "barking lot." Acclaimed organist to perform for freeA free concert by internationally acclaimed young organist Christopher Houlihan will be offered by the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists at 7 p.m. Friday at Central Union Church. He will perform the works of Sowerby, Bach, Mozart, Widor, Vierne and one of his own arrangements. At age 15, Christopher won first prize in the high school division of the Albert Schweitzer National Organ Competition. He has also twice won the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship for Church Musicians, and at Trinity College in Connecticut was the first recipient of the John Rose Organ Scholarship. A calabash offering will be taken. For information, call 721-3468. Choral society will give spring concertThe Windward Choral Society will perform its second annual spring concert next Saturday at Windward United Church of Christ, 38 Kāne'ohe Bay Drive. During the concert, slated for 7 to 8:30 p.m., the 70-voice Windward group will perform folk songs from around the world, including a full orchestral version of Sesame Street's tune, "Rubber Ducky." The concert is free but donations will be accepted. For additional information, call 254-5717, Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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