by Pets Alive | Jun 8, 2015 | Animal Rescue, Updates, Why We Do This
By Audrey Lodato, Executive Director, Pets Alive It’s been a week since we got the call from Deputy Sheriff Vincent Iannuzi alerting us to an urgent hoarding situation in Minisink. A week since we responded immediately to that call and rescued 52 animals from...
by Pets Alive | Jun 2, 2015 | Animal Rescue, Why We Do This
Collectively, we’ve got decades of experience in rescue at Pets Alive – we’re pretty thick skinned. It takes a lot to rattle us. We’ve unfortunately dealt with debilitating neglect and circumstances horrible beyond measure for companion animals. We’d thought...
by Pets Alive | May 11, 2015 | Animal Rescue, Johanna Kloer
By Audrey Lodato, Executive Director at Pets Alive Middletown Johanna Kloer, the woman who starved her horses, had her sentencing hearing on Thursday, May 7, in Blooming Grove court. Was justice served? We don’t think so. In court on Thursday, we tried very hard to...
by Becky Tegze | Apr 28, 2015 | Animal Rescue
About ten days ago my neighbors knocked on my door. I live near a dog park in the South Bronx, and it’s not unusual for dogs to be dumped there. A black lab puppy had been dumped in the park and was acting aggressively towards people who tried to get near him. I...
by Pets Alive | Apr 17, 2015 | Animal Rescue
By Audrey Lodato, Executive Director at Pets Alive Companion animals in trouble don’t have a lot of options. This is especially true for cats. There’s animal control, if you live in a town lucky enough to have animal control for cats. Sometimes a particularly...
by Pets Alive | Mar 15, 2015 | Animal Rescue, No Kill
Each of the dogs that come through our doors has a story of their own to tell. Quite often we are sure their stories would make us very sad to hear. We don’t need to hear them though, we can see from their body language what some have been through. We can see it when...