Archive for September, 2009
See where your state stands on dog fighting & get active in your community to STOP the dog fighting!
TheVelvetSnoot.com encourages you to get involved in your community to STOP dog fighting!
Animal Fighting Laws: Where Does Your State Stand?
Although dogfighting andcockfighting are illegal everywhere, state animal fighting laws differ in ways that impact heavily on the ability of law enforcement to catch and prosecute perpetrators.One animal fighting law that can make an enormous difference in [...]
Rand Pet Supply Takes The Time to Educate Pet Owners!
TheVelvetSnoot.com wants to recognize RandPetSupply.com for their dedication to pet safety and responsibility. Spaying and neutering your dogs will save lives and increas the wuality of life for the pets you already have.
Why spay or neuter your pet?
1. Spaying or neutering your dog is an important part of responsible pet ownership.
2. Unneutered male dogs that [...]Best Friends Animal Society Saves Another Mule!
September 16, 2009 : 7:42 AM ET
There’s a new mule in town — one who has seen his share of trips around the sun. At over 30-years-old, Joseph the mule has also more than likely seen his share of homes. He came to Best Friends after his most recent family, who’d had him several years, [...]Help Legislate for New Laws Demanding Humane Treatment for Animals
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
-Mahatma Gandhi
We must stop the use of gas chambers to euthanize animals in overcrowded shelters.
Every year, more than 3 million adoptable animals are euthanized in shelters for lack of shelter space and funding to care for them. [...]Our Animals Need Us to Fight Global Warming- Here’s How
Tell your senators to help our countries wildlife by passing global warming legislation. It take less than a minute of your day and doesn’t cost a thing- You’d be surprised at how much your 1 phone call can make a difference. Our senators will listen to us but we have to speak up! The links [...]
WSPA Is Saving More Animals ~ Find Out How You Can Too
This was sent to me from the World Society for the Protection of Animals. I thought it worthy of posting. Check out my other blog posts at TheVelvetSnoot.com on how to make a difference and save an animals life. Carry the message of anti-cruelty wherever you go- it makes a difference. You don’t have to [...]
October is Adopt a Dog Month~Save a Life & Adopt a Pet
WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO?
Rescue a Shelter Dog - October is Adopt a Dog Month!!
You can save the day for a homeless dog and find a faithful companion who will be at your side for all of life’s adventures. Adopt a dog from your local shelter or breed-rescue group during American Humane’s Adopt-A-Dog Month® in [...]Ribbon Seal’s Fate Defended in Court
In other warming-threatened pinniped news, last Thursday the Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace filed suit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to safeguard the ribbon seal under the Endangered Species Act. Scientific evidence makes it patently clear that the beautiful, strikingly patterned seal is threatened by global warming and the consequent loss [...]
Will it be too late for the wolf? Wolves can be killed until case decided-
Judge: Center Likely to Win Wolf Protection Case, But Wolves Can Be Killed Till Then
This Tuesday, a federal judge gave us some very good news — and some very bad. The good: He agreed with the Center for Biological Diversity and allies that the feds likely shouldn’t have removed the northern Rocky Mountains gray wolf [...]
Polar Bears, move over! Pacific Walrus Tooth-walks Toward Protection
Pacific Walrus Tooth-walks Toward Protection
In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, this Tuesday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it’s evaluating the endangerment of the Pacific walrus. The blubbery, massive-tusked Arctic pinniped or “tooth-walking sea horse,” as its scientific name dubs it, is seriously threatened by oil and [...]
