by Pets Alive | Mar 15, 2012 | Animal Rescue, Case Studies
(Note: This blog has been written by Janet P., Pets Alive vet liaison) It’s been one week today that Robert came home from the hospital. And what a hectic week it’s been! For anyone who doesn’t know Robert’s story, he was found in NYC with some abrasions on his body...
by Pets Alive | Mar 1, 2012 | Animal Rescue
With rescue work you have really busy days – like helping to unload 100 dogs from a mass rescue, document them, get them settled, fed, warm, up on pet finder, into your database, vetted and cared for – and then there are other days when you can sit in your...
by Pets Alive | Feb 28, 2012 | Animal Rescue
New York – Robert, the 4 year old paraplegic rescued just hours before he was to be put to death, is in pain and needs extensive diagnostics and surgery immediately in order to have a fighting chance at being able to ever walk again. Robert lay immobilized in his cage...
by Pets Alive | Jan 27, 2012 | Animal Rescue
I think that most of you have followed the story of Gloria. Gloria was a cat that was abandoned at an ASPCA mobile clinic about a month ago. The ASPCA turned her over to the ACC in NYC. After three weeks the ACC put her on the kill list and Pets Alive pulled her. We...
by Pets Alive | Dec 18, 2011 | Animal Rescue
Some of you have asked me in person, or in email how is it we could work with the ASPCA on the Arkansas rescue when we have vilified them in the past, especially over Oreo. I’m surprised that people don’t understand this. Surprised that some of YOU...
by Pets Alive | Dec 11, 2011 | Animal Rescue
In this “business” we see it all the time. Really well meaning people that get in over their heads. I’m not speaking of hoarders. Most psychologists feel hoarding is more of a mental disease than a controllable impulse. I’m talking about well...
