Pets & Owners
A blog to make you smile
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Adidas and Cyrus
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Linus and Bea
We met this happy pet and owner pair in the park this past Sunday. Linus is a Lhasa Apso. (Thank goodness for Google, so we all know how to spell "Lhasa Apso.") Poor Linus had been dropped at a Pennsylvania SPCA late one night and was not found until the next day. The poor guy had been left in his crate with no food or water all night, so not surprisingly, the hungry, thirsty pup was a bit aggressive toward the SPCA personnel. (He was probably saying, "Hello! I'm uncomfortable and far from home! Please feed me, give me some water and a warm bed, and find my parents!") After several tries to remove him from the crate, the SPCA staff deemed him an aggressive dog and scheduled him to be euthanized. But wait! This is a blog for happy endings....
Monday, November 26, 2012
Kubla and Sara
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Stella and Brittany
Brittany is the fairy godmother for this adorable rescued Chihuahua, Stella. When Brittany moved out of her parents' house into a one bedroom apartment with her boyfriend, she really missed her family dogs, so she convinced her boyfriend to get a dog of their own. Because they were in a small one bedroom apartment, they wisely looked for the smallest dog they could find. She immediately pulled up Petfinder and looked for Chihuahuas. (Quick rescue public service announcement: Did you know that you can rescue a pet even if you are set on a particular breed? Of course you can! Search Petfinder, like Brittany, for a particular breed, or look for rescue organizations that specialize in the breed in which you're interested! Brittany found another great option… read on!)
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Emmy and Louise
Look at this adorable pair! Emmy's is a true rescue story. This little, teeny, tiny five-week old kitten arrived at a shelter with a broken leg and a broken foot. Not only did she have broken bones, but she didn't appear to be a thriving kitten - she was listless, unresponsive, and generally feeling terrible. Enter my best rescue buddy, Lisa, who can save a broken kitten like nobody can. Lisa whisked Emmy off to her kitty heaven home where hopeless kitten cases find hope....
Monday, October 15, 2012
Petit Louis and Natalie
You have to pronounce this pair with a French accent - Puhtee Lwee eh Nahtahlee! It's just too fun to say. Petit, as he's called for short, showed up at the house of Natalie's friend Melanie almost exactly five years ago. When Melanie called to him, he came right over… and wouldn't leave. He was friendly and sported a dashing pink bedazzled collar but no tags. (Collars: they're not just for decoration anymore, pet owners! Put some identification tags on those things.) Despite the collar and the couple extra pounds the pup sported, which proclaimed that somebody once owned Petit, the little white guy had matted hair and tangles for days. Clearly he had been left, lost, or abandoned....
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Milo and Tiffany
Welcome to the first post on Pets & Owners! It's fitting that the first picture is of Tiffany and Milo, our downstairs neighbors. We are particularly happy to feature Tiffany and Milo because Milo was one of our foster cats! In early August, our two fosters, Hercules and Tortilla, were adopted, and as we were heading out of the country on vacation, we weren't going to foster any cats until we returned. Besides that, our handy, dandy basement apartment neighbor who always cat sat for us was moving! When we received an email from our rescue organization's foster coordinator about an orange boy kitten who was turned into a shelter with no room, we said, "Well, we'll take him, but we're going to be gone for a week, so we're really your worst possible option." Apparently, there were no other options, but we were better than nothing for this poor kitten....
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