Editors Note: This is an older story that’s recently resurfaced online. But, you’ve gotta read what this judge did! Park rangers in Ohio found 35 kittens abandoned in two different parks in in Mentor, Ohio. Many of the young kittens had upper respiratory infections and nine of them later died. The kittens were traced back to Michelle M. Murray, age […]
You’d be hard-pressed to find any pet parent who doesn’t want to see this film, whose trailer was released more than a year before its comes out on July 8, 2016. For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after
San Francisco police officers spent over three hours unsuccessfully trying to talk a suicidal man down off a window ledge. Then they switched to a more effective negotiator: the man’s cat. The suspected car thief ran from a traffic stop on Wednesday and spent more than three hours hanging out of a third-floor window, threatening to
The Texas Board of Veterinarian Medical Examiners reviewed the case of Brenham veterinarian, Kristen Lindsey, who is accused of killing a cat and then bragging about it on Facebook when she posted a photo of herself proudly holding up the cat with an arrow through it’s head. The photo went viral, causing outrage among animal lovers across the world. Though Ms. Lindsey was
Over 55 million people use the social media apps Foursquare and Swarm to check-in and share their locations with friends. If you’re one of them, now’s your chance to save kittens while you do it! This month, Foursquare is teaming up with Alley Cat Rescue to save abandoned and stray cats. From now until October 15th,
Big Heart Pet Brands linked to alleged slave labor in production of cat food. Hagens Berman, a consumer-rights law firm has launched a nationwide investigation into Big Heart Pet Brands, makers of Meow Mix, for failing to disclose to consumers that the pet food manufacturer knowingly supports a system of slave labor and human trafficking
The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), the accrediting body for animal hospitals in the United States and Canada, updated it’s policy statement on declawing in August and took a much stronger stance against the procedure! While this isn’t a complete ban on the declaw procedure, it is a strong statement oposing it, and a definite step in the right
Tardar Sauce, better known as Grumpy Cat, the famous forlorn feline made a special guest appearance before an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game against the San Francisco Giants on Labor Day to throw out the first pitch. With the help of her humans, the internet-famous kitty was dressed in her very own pint-sized Diamonbacks jersey and sporting
Champion Pet Foods, the manufacturers of premium dog and cat foods Orijen and Acana have reached out to consumers to inform them of counterfeit pet foods labeled under the Orijen brand found in China. In a letter to consumers, Chief Brand Officer Peter Muhlenfeld writes, “We recently received inquiries from concerned pet lovers in China
A lawsuit filed against Nestlé SA alleges that the pet food manufacturer knowingly supported a system of slave labor and human trafficking in it’s production of Fancy Feast cat food, according to attorneys at Hagens Berman. A nationwide class-action lawsuit was filed against the company for it’s involvement with a Thai partner, Thai Union Frozen Products
