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Chicago Passes Anti-Puppy Mill Ordinance

March 6, 2014

By Kathy Mordini The dogs have had their day in Chicago––the cats and rabbits too. Chicago’s City Council approved a ban on the sale of puppy mill dogs in pet stores, forcing pet stores that deal in cats, dogs, and rabbits to go humane. The Companion Animal Protection Ordinance is aimed at protectin...

NYC Domestic Violence Shelter to Allow Pets

March 5, 2014

In a study done for The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in 1997 titled “Animal Welfare and Domestic Violence,” researchers looked into the role pets play in households where there is domestic violence. Their statistics showed that one in four women who were being abused stayed in their hou...

A Child at Heart

March 3, 2014

By Tracy Ahrens On a sunny afternoon I was working in my front yard, pulling weeds from a garden of groundcover. Trucker was freely roaming nearby, sniffing greenery and snoozing on a bed of grass in the sunlight. I saw two young girls, perhaps eight or nine years of age, walking down the dead end ...

What You Can Do to Help Chicago Go Humane

February 27, 2014

Chicago is on its way to joining the 40 other U.S. cities that have banned the selling of dogs and cats in pet stores. The Companion Animal Protection Ordinance, sponsored by City Clerk Susana Mendoza with help from advocacy group The Puppy Mill Project, would instead require all Chicago pet stores ...

You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks (Video)

February 26, 2014

Golden Retriever Indy may be thirteen years old, but that hasn’t stopped him from playing fetch with his human––he’s just figured out a new way to do it: http://youtu.be/WUv8unDugqA More dog videos: Puppy Trying to Learn How to Catch This Dog is Awesome at Fetch The Best Part of a Mailma...