Archive for animal rescue – Page 7

Norah The Miracle Stray Faces Her Next Battle

norah and pups cancer - photo

July 20, 2010 Norah first captured our hearts when we called her and her puppies “10 Miracles.” Norah had lived on the street for years, in a draining ditch near a busy road. For almost four years she survived, alone in the world. Some dedicated folks in rescue, JP Bonnelly and Rekka Melby worked to
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Animal Rescue – An Imperfect World With Few Absolutes

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July 20, 2011 An Important Message to Animal Rescue Networkers … I know I’m often guilty of wanting to live in a perfect world. Especially when it comes to animal rescue. I want all pets to be safe, loved, and to have a home. I want to see more people involved in their local community
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Crime-Fighting Chihuahua Stops Armed Robbers

paco crime-fighting-chihuahua

  Meet Paco! A little Chihuahua who appears to be more mighty than two masked men with guns. They only mentioned it briefly, but Paco is actually a rescued dog! File under “who rescued who!”






An Update On Norah the Stray and Her Puppies

Norah the stray dog

June 13, 2011 Do you want to see what 10 beautiful miracles look like? On April 5, we shared the story of Norah the stray and her nine puppies living in a draining ditch (click the underlined text for the original story and photos). It’s a beautiful story of the compassion of volunteers dedicated to
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Little Bulldog Pup In Need of Med Care

animal rescue sick dog

June 9, 2011 Take Me Home Rescue, (TMHR – Richardson) got a chance to be an Angel to an Angel when they rescued this little six (6) month old bulldog. The rescue reports “We took in a baby bulldog earlier this week after she was found in a tarp in the back of someone’s truck.
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More Than 44.3 Million Facebook Post Views

Paws Texas FB Stats 04 2009 2 062011

June 6, 2011 Facebook has a great tool for Page admins that allows them to see what is happening on their pages; I thought I’d share what’s happened on our page in the last month, from January 1, 2011 to now, and since I first launched the Page on Facebook in April 2009. As you
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One Hundred Thousand Hearts (animal rescue educational video)

One Hundred Thousand Hearts official photograph

May 31, 2011 One Hundred Thousand Hearts is a very well-produced documentary of the plight of animals in municipal shelters. The numbers are both staggering and heartbreaking, and while Houston is a very large community in Texas, it is still just one. When you add the numbers across the state, for municipal shelters big and small,
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The Little Shelter That Could

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May 27, 2011 Guest Blogger, Rekka Melby – Take Me Home Pet Rescue We all get tired of all the daily, heartbreaking emails of “the lists” from our local shelters and postings on facebook. We beg and plead with them to stop the killing and be No Kill shelters. This is the story of a
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URGENT Shelter Dogs in San Antonio

scared shelter dog in need of rescue or adoption

May 27, 2011 Today is their last day – URGENT. I like that these shelter volunteers posted a video for each pet and I wanted to include them all here to give each the ABSOLUTE best chance at life through rescue or adoption! These dogs are located in San Antonio at Brooks AFB – limited
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Shelter Pet Miracles By Animal Rescue

Carrollton Animal Rescue

May 26, 2011 Notice the title of this album (below) for the Carrollton Animal Services’ pets; it reads “Happy Tails.” Tuesday night, we were networking these adorable pets because they were out of time. In fact, they only had until 7:00am Wednesday morning to be saved. With these posts, we’re all on edge, watching, hoping,
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