The Blog
Kameron Jacobsen Youth Award & Memorial Garden
This year at the Pets Alive Annual Fur Ball (our most important fundraiser of the year), we awarded the very first annual Kameron Jacobsen Youth Award. The award was in honor of 14 year old, Kam, who took his own life, after suffering intense peer bullying in his...
Chrissy's Update – Pets Alive Puerto Rico
It’s been a very hard month for Pets Alive. All of us have been affected by it. We’re a family so if one of us is hurting we all are. Kerry writes about it in more detail in her blog and I would really encourage you to read it:...
CAARA – URGENT ALERT!
With only a couple of weeks left in the legislative session, it is urgent for New Yorkers to contact NYS Senator Joseph Robach and urge him to bring the Companion Animal Access and Rescue Act (CAARA) to the Senate floor for a vote. CAARA will save roughly 25,000...
Questions, Doubts and Recrimination
What a month at Pets Alive. One of the worst I can ever remember. It has actually defeated me a little bit and slammed me to my knees. I'll get back up again and dust off and go on, but sometimes we need some time to sit in the dust and cry. This is one of those...
Oreo's Law Redux – WE NEED YOU NOW!
Oreo's Law (now CAARA) WILL "die" without your calls and letters! On Monday or Tuesday, Oreo’s Law (now known as CAARA - Companion Animal Adoption & Rescue Act ) will be voted on by the New York State Assembly Agriculture Committee. But it is not likely to pass...