Good News Notes: “The Ursula Landsrath Animal Rescue Fund and the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties have awarded grants totaling $57,000 to 24 nonprofit animal rescue organizations across Virginia. Ursula Landsrath created the Animal Rescue Fund of Virginia as an independent organization in 2008, distributing more than $1 million to Virginia-based animal…
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Marietta shelter throwing kitten adoption boo bash
Good News Notes: “A Marietta animal shelter will be giving away whiskers and meows to trick-or-treaters this weekend. Best Friends Animal Society, a rescue group with pet shelters across metro Atlanta, will be hosting a cat adopt-a-thon Saturday afternoon. Shelter workers will be outside the PetSmart in Marietta, located at 1285 Johnson Ferry Road, from…
Animal rescue shelter sets up adoption site inside Bismarck bar
Good News Notes: “Pet rescuers say as we move into the fall season, animal adoptions are at their slowest. The Miles of Love Dog Rescue hosted an adoption event inside The Laughing Sun Brewery in Bismarck. Four dogs were at the brewery, but 20 total are in the shelter. Most of the dogs came from…
Texas Humane Heroes announces Pet Adoptions on Wheels mobile adoption unit
Good News Notes: “A new mobile adoption unit by the Texas Humane Heroes Adoption Center is coming to a location near you soon, the agency announced Wednesday. It’s called P.A.W (Pet Adoptions on Wheels) and it will travel to various locations throughout Central Texas with 20+ cats and dogs who are looking to find a…
A purrfect match! Animal shelter puts lonely pets on Tinder
Good News Notes: “A German animal shelter is trying a new approach to find homes for abandoned pets: it is posting their profiles on dating app Tinder in the hope that lonely humans looking for love might also settle for the company of a cat or a dog. The Munich Animal Welfare Association got an…
Rescue Labrador Retriever Adopts Orphaned Kittens
Good News Notes: “A rescue dog is paid it forward by looking after a litter of orphaned kittens. According to a release from the U.K. animal rescue charity Battersea, Bertie, a one-year-old Labrador retriever, is helped the Battersea shelter that found him a forever home raise a group of kittens. Bertie started looking after the seven kittens…
India wildlife officials reunite leopard cub with mum
Good News Notes: “Wildlife officials in India have helped reunite a leopard cub that was separated from her mother. Villagers in the north-eastern state of Assam found the two-month old female stuck in a trench in a tea garden. Wildlife vet Khanin Changmai, who was called to attend to the cub, told the BBC that…
Once Nearly Extinct, The Florida Panther Is Making A Comeback
Good News Notes: “Brian Kelly, a panther biologist for the state of Florida, opens a creaking gate near Fisheating Creek, a narrow ribbon of preserved land just west of Lake Okeechobee. The path leads from trucks rumbling by on U.S. Highway 27 to a world of towering oaks, cypress heads and a tannic-stained creek that…
Vegas Pet Rescue Project & Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas Presents **CELEBRITY CONCERT FOR CANINES AT SUNSET**
Good News Notes: “Vegas Pet Rescue and Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas are 501-c3 non-profit pet rescues in Las Vegas who work so hard to save the homeless and neglected or abused animals locally and abroad. Their goal for this event is to raise much needed funding that will allow them to continue to do…
Angels of Assisi adopts ‘Petco Love Lost’ technology to help reunite lost pets with their families
Good News Notes: “Although National Lost Dog and Cat Awareness Day is still a few days away, Angels of Assisi is joining forces with Petco Love and animal welfare groups across the country to help reunite missing pets with their families. According to industry statistics, one in every three pets will go missing in their…