A to Z List of Fashionable Pet Names When naming our pets, we often find inspiration through our personal love of music, food, travel, or other life passions. Following is a list of popular pet names inspired by Fashion Week for style conscious animal lovers! Pet Names Inspired by Fashion Beginning with A Alexander Armani
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Dog Pranks Video When a dog puppet guards a deliciously big bone in the park, it’s sure to be a fun time. Most of the dogs seem to enjoy the ‘catch it if you can’ game. Can you guess which real dog will actually snag the bone? Dog lovers will enjoy this fun video by
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Keeping Pets Safe! Check Your Fence – Often! Pets can easily escape the yard, to go off in search of an adventure, due to loose or damaged fencing. Each year, thousands of beloved pets are killed in animal shelters because they went missing and their family did not find them before their stray hold was
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Saving America’s Shelter Pets! by Alva Logsdon In 2012 and 2013, I hosted ‘pets alive’ workshops, the first of their kind in North Texas, featuring some of the nation’s leading no kill experts. I had no budget or staff, and hosting a workshop without either is a huge undertaking! The reason I took on this
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Advocacy 101: Advocating for the Shelter Animals in Your Community Where do I start?” Who do I contact? What do I say? What if they say “no?” In this 52 minute video presentation, recorded at the 2013 Mission: Pets Alive workshop, discover ways to advocate and work with your local animal shelter to improve live
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Animal Shelter Reform & Transformation: When a local, taxpayer-funded animal shelter wrongly killed Kenzie, a beloved family Golden Retriever, a rural schoolteacher, with the support of her husband, reformed their city’s high-kill animal shelter. From pet owner to animal advocate, discover how she used The Public Information Act, formerly known as the Open Records Act, to uncover
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No Kill Shelter Tips from No Kill Leaders Animal Shelters staff, Rescues, and Volunteers asked questions of the Mission: Pets Alive workshop speaker panel. No kill experts include, left-to-right: Kelli Alexander–Denton County Texas no Kill Advocate, Dr. Ellen Jefferson–Austin Pets Alive! Director, Cheryl Schneider–Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter Director, Mike Kitkowski–Rockwall Pets, and Sgt. Karl
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Feral Cats Wild, unsocialized cats are called Feral Cats. They colonize and can be a helpful addition to local communities as they control the rat population and provide other benefits. Please note that a feral cat is not the same as a stray cat that may be someone’s lost pet. Lost pets can be scared,
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Rescuing Street Strays The Corridor of Cruelty in Houston, Texas is sadly, a popular dumping ground for abandoned pets. Deborah Hoffman illustrates that change begins with one person committing to being the change. In this 5 minute video, Deborah shares the horrors that are the Corridor and how the organization she founded works to not
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No Kill Animal Shelter Crisis Management: Discover how to effectively manage the animal shelter and maintain no kill during high intake seasons, budget cuts, and other unexpected challenges in this 53 minute video presentation, recorded at the 2013 Mission: Pets Alive workshop, with Cheryl Schneider, director of the no kill Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in Georgetown,
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