The Blog
Remembrance
The one year anniversary of Sara's death was the 19th. As you know from previous posts, that is the Yahrzeit in the Jewish religion, which represents the opportunity to remember and honor someone who has died. The weather for the 19th was predicted to be rainy, so...
Pets Alive Update – March 20
Sanctuary animal updates: Since our last update on March 1st, we have found homes for Rusty, Opal, Lego, Trevor, Ellie, Peanut, Nikki, Sid, Aaron, Rebel, Arby and 16 puppies! That is 27 dogs in all. Our adoption coordinator, Patti P. doesn't get enough kudos for all...
The War Has Begun
More than 30 years ago the concept of No-Kill was introduced. The idea was simple -- no adoptable or rehabilitatable animal in a shelter should be killed. There were two early advocates -- Pets Alive and Best Friends. We strongly believe in No-Kill at Pets Alive, and...
New Case Study – Tommy
As each dog newly arrives to any shelter environment, I’m sure a plethora of emotions overwhelms them. Where are they? Why are they here? Who are all these strange people and loud noises? We are obviously not shocked to see some dogs behave very introverted before...
Kerry's update – March 1st
Sanctuary animal updates: Since our last update on February 17th, we have found homes for Kane, Chip, Johnny, Kenny, Ned, Badgee, Newby, Barney (again), Elmer, four of the puppies, and Mr. Big (one of our cats). Did you notice that name? Yes! Our sweet Badgee got...
My Secret Life
Running Pets Alive can be challenging. Draining. Disheartening. Even if you're lucky enough to have someone like Kerry Clair doing all the real work. Sometimes it just seems like one big Rube Goldberg device (Sigh...those of you who don't know what a Rube Goldberg...
Kerry's update – February 17th
Sanctuary animal updates: Since our last update on February 5th, we have found homes for Scarlet, Barclay, Lexi, Dusty, Tina, Sherry, Dawn, Poncho, Buttercup, Valentino, Barney (but he came back), and Roxi. Three of our other dogs - Poppi, Royce and Tugger were also...
Yahrzeits and Legacies
Hello everyone. It's me, Matt DeAngelis. A thousand people out there just collectively scratched their heads. "Who?" It's a long story, but I'm the co-director of our little Shangri-La. I spend a lot of time on the behind-the-scenes stuff. My partner, Kerry Clair,...
Kerry's update – February 2
New Pets Alive Website is LIVE Our new website is live! We're really excited about this and would like to thank Laura Cromwell and her husband Pete for all their work on this with us. They have been AMAZING in getting the new design developed, up and running. Thank...
Comment on our Badgee case study
With one of the Georgia rescues we got in a litter of lab pups. One of these pups the staff started to call Little Mutant Man. This poor little guy was showing very weird signs of bowed legs. Read the rest of the story here. We'd love to hear your comments. Leave them...