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Posts Tagged ‘Best Friends Animal Society’
A new future for small-town homeless cats
March 14, 2008New “vicktories” every day
March 9, 2008
Dear Members and Friends, New “vicktories” every day. |
Horse play. ![]() learn to interact with each other and with staff and volunteers. This week, several of them went to a demonstration in natural horsemanship where they got to show off and have yet more fun. Star of the show was mini-horse Luna, all recovered from her months in Guardian Angel care. (She’d been run over when she came to Best Friends.) Once fearful, stubborn and ornery, Luna was having a great time strutting her stuff and playing to the crowd. |
ON THE NETWORK:
It’s a pleasure! Working together to save 150 cats. |
IN SPECIAL CARE:
Pepper the pig comes through major surgery. |
Raptor rehab. ![]() |
Lots more on the home page at www.bestfriends.org. You make all these good things possible, and your furry and feathered friends at the sanctuary really appreciate it. Thank you for your generous donations, and have a very good weekend.
Michael Mountain |
Vick’s former pit bulls making progress in rehabilitation at Utah animal sanctuary
March 7, 2008
Two months ago, Shadow was one uncooperative pit bull.
He had no interest in toys placed in his kennel and would firmly anchor his paws in the middle of walks, refusing to continue.
The dog wasn’t being stubborn. He was frightened, adjusting to getting lavished with affection and attention after having survived the bloodthirsty world of dogfighting. Shadow and 21 other pit bulls are living at a southern Utah animal sanctuary where handlers hope to undo the mental damage done at Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels.
So far, the ragtag bunch of leftovers that other rescue groups passed over has shown encouraging progress.
“These are the 22 that they thought were the most hopeless – the least likely to ever be rehabilitated,” said Dr. Frank McMillan, a veterinarian at the Best Friends Animal Society’s sanctuary...
…Vick’s pit bulls are getting a chance most fighting dogs don’t. And surprisingly, animal rights groups don’t think they should. Groups such as the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals believe that euthanasia, the fate of most fighting dogs, would still be the most humane option, rather than keeping them in a shelter indefinitely or in some cases permanently.
Daphna Nachminovitch, PETA vice president for cruelty investigations, said as touching as it seems to give these dogs a taste of happiness after enduring such misery, nobody can be certain how they will behave if they are ever released.
…McMillan said PETA has a point. If a dog’s disposition and behavior are misread and the animal is sent to the wrong environment, the results could be tragic. So the evaluation process will be extensive and stringent for at least six months, longer in some cases…
Click here for the full article.
For more animal-esque music, news, and issues, tune in to Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo online at www.thecapstone.ua.edu, Sunday nights 8-10 central.
A wish comes true
March 1, 2008
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Finishing school for cats
February 22, 2008
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Best in Snow!
February 17, 2008
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A soldier’s dogs come home
February 11, 2008
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Of Vicktory dogs, PTSD, and pittie cupcakes
February 3, 2008Dear Members and Friends,
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Lots more, as always, including:
Thank you, as always, for making it all possible. Your donations are a blessing to your furry friends here! Michael Mountain |
News From Best Friends Animal Society: The Vicktory Dogs
January 28, 2008
Dear Members and Friends,
We call them the Vicktory dogs.
They’re the 22 dogs, rescued from ex-football star Michael Vick’s infamous Bad Newz Kennels, who are now living at Best Friends. And as of today, when the final court proceedings were concluded, we can begin to introduce you to these dogs.
Bottom line: they’re very different from anything you may have imagined or have been led to believe –even by other national animal organizations. Most are quite timid, many have clearly been abused, some have been forcibly bred many times over, others have apparently been used as bait dogs. There are certainly some champion fighters among them, but even these are very different from some Hound of the Baskervilles image of a snarling dog trying to attack everything and everyone in sight.
And that’s the thing about dogs like these – they’re so eager to please, so responsive to people, that all these good character traits have been used against them. (Remember that only a generation or two ago, pit bulls were renowned as “America’s family dog.”)
We’ve posted an initial report about them today. And we’ll be starting to tell their stories in more detail on Monday, when we’re also welcoming TV and news reporters to the sanctuary to meet the dogs in person for the first time and to publish the first photos and videos of them.
On Monday, we’ll also be starting a new blog, where you can follow the progress of the Vicktory dogs, along with links to pages on the Best Friends Network where you can learn more about how Best Friends is working to end the billion-dollar dog-fighting industry and help the millions of cast-off dogs who end up in shelters that have no means of caring for them.
Have a good weekend, and watch for a further e-mail on Monday with details of our coverage of the Vicktory dogs.
Michael Mountain
Best Friends
Will Wiggles pass the parrot test? (All will be revealed!)
January 17, 2008If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here for an online version.
Dear Members and Friends
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Rescues of the Week…I turn on the radio this morning, just as the local news guy is saying “. . . and they’ve all gone to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.” So I’m thinking: Is he referring to one of the puppy mill rescues on the Dogtown show? Or is this about dog fighting and the 22 Vick dogs who are now in recovery at the sanctuary? Or perhaps the bevy of lop-eared bunnies found hopping about on a highway. (They must have been abandoned, because they’re obviously house rabbits but their once-beautiful coats were so matted, the poor things couldn’t even nod their heads or reach their food bowls.) Or maybe he’s talking about April, Chewy and Dewey, the three abused horses who just arrived at Best Friends and are now in round-the-clock care? (We’ll have a video early next week.)
>>And check out what the bunnies do with old Christmas trees. |
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Lots more, as always, at www.bestfriends.org. It’s all thanks to you, and your donations to Best Friends are vital to keeping up this work of love– here at the sanctuary and all across the country.
Thank you for caring. Enjoy the show on National Geographic Channel on Friday evening. And have a great weekend. Michael Mountain |
“Dogtown” on TV gets rave reviews. Episode Two tonight.
January 11, 2008
Dear Members and Friends
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Other great stories this week include:
Thanks to you, it’s always good news for all the animals who come into the care of Best Friends. You make all these good things possible through your generous donations. Your furry friends really appreciate it! Thank you for caring, enjoy Dogtown on National Geo, and have a good weekend. Michael Mountain |
Best Friends Dogtown – the TV series begins.
January 4, 2008
Dear Members and Friends
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Lots more, including:
And, speaking of blessings we couldn’t do any of it without you. Your generous donations make it all possible. Thanks to you, the New Year at Best Friends has launched in a big way. Michael Mountain |