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More Good News About Bad Laws Against Pit Bulls   Best Friends Animal Society Last summer, Best Friends and our members and friends in Massachusetts helped the Massachusetts SPCA pass a statewide bill preempting the passage of local breed-discriminatory laws – laws that ban...

Nov 15, 2012 0

National Animal Shelter Check-In Day And More On Sandy Relief Work   Best Friends Animal Society Don’t miss it Tomorrow, Saturday, November 10, is the second annual National Animal Shelter Check-In Day. Shelter Check-In Day is something that Best Friends inaugurated last November as a way for...

Nov 10, 2012 0

Best Friends Leads Effort In L.A. To Ban Sale Of Dogs, Cats, Rabbits   Best Friends Animal Society The Los Angeles City Council today formalized its approval of an ordinance (by a 13-2 vote) that bans the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits — an important step on the path to becoming the...

Nov 2, 2012 0

Atlantic City Boardwalk Cats Thumb Noses At Sandy And TNR Alarmists   Best Friends Animal Society NPR’s Melissa Block broke the news to listeners yesterday as she toured a badly damaged Atlantic City shoreline that her team described as looking like a bombed-out war zone. Amid the...

Nov 1, 2012 0

Life-Changing Weekend Of The Year   Best Friends Animal Society Over 1,500 animal lovers dedicated to ending the killing of shelter pets in the United States gathered in Las Vegas Thursday, October 25, through Sunday, October 28, to learn, network and celebrate...

Oct 30, 2012 0

At Long Last, Pet Sales On The Way Out In L.A.   Best Friends Animal Society It’s a great day for animals in the city of Los Angeles! On Wednesday of this week, the Los Angeles City Council (by a vote of 12-2) approved an ordinance that bans the retail sale of dogs, cats...

Oct 25, 2012 0

Think Different: Here’s To The Crazy Ones   Best Friends Animal Society This weekend at the No More Homeless Pets Conference, over 1,500 animal lovers will gather to learn how they can save more lives and learn from the people who have created no-kill communities. Below...

Oct 24, 2012 0

No Longer Failing Cats — In Honor Of National Feral Cat Day   Best Friends Animal Society I absolutely adore cats. I very much love dogs, too, but my first exposure to animals was as a young boy growing up in England with our family cat, Chuffy. My earliest childhood memories are framed...

Oct 17, 2012 0

Andrea The Cat Inspires An Entire Community To Go No-Kill   Best Friends Animal Society Last fall, a long-haired black kitty with white paws named Andrea survived two attempts by West Valley City (WVC), Utah, animal control to kill her. Following the second attempt, when her cries were...

Oct 16, 2012 0

Last Chance To Find YOUR Inspiration In Vegas (yes, You Read That Right)   Best Friends Animal Society This October 25-28 is your chance to catch the essential animal welfare conference of the year. The Best Friends’ No More Homeless Pets National Conference has been described as...

Oct 13, 2012 0

Strut Your Mutt Kicks Butt!   Best Friends Animal Society Best Friends’ national dog walk, Strut Your Mutt, raised $1,280,365 for homeless pets, with over $866,000 of that going directly to 153 Best Friends No More Homeless Pets Network partners across...

Oct 5, 2012 0

California Governor Brown Signs Wildlife-Friendly SB 1221 And Pet-Friendly SB 1229 Into Law   Best Friends Animal Society It’s been a good few days for the animals in Sacramento, California, this week. Governor Jerry Brown has signed two important pieces of animal-friendly legislation, which Best Friends supports,...

Sep 28, 2012 0

Los Angeles And Salt Lake Headline The First Weekend Of Strut Your Mutt 2012   Best Friends Animal Society By end of the day this Saturday, September 29th, Strut Your Mutt (SYM) events in nine cities will be on the books, and, if the first weekend of “Struts” is anything to go by, we will have raised...

Sep 28, 2012 0

Strut Your Mutt Empowers Lifesaving Across The Country   Best Friends Animal Society When the first Strut Your Mutt stumbled out of the gate in 1995, it was hardly an auspicious beginning. Best Friends senior director of marketing, Julie Castle, who was then the volunteer organizer...

Sep 21, 2012 0

A Life-Changing Experience   Best Friends Animal Society Best Friends’ No More Homeless Pets National Conference will not only change your life, it will also help you save the lives of countless shelter pets. But I don’t need to tell you just how...

Sep 13, 2012 0

A Political Season Test   Best Friends Animal Society It’s that time again. The presidential election campaign dominates the airwaves and the Internet. People who think they are uniquely qualified to lead the country, command the most powerful...

Sep 7, 2012 0

Hurricane Isaac Update   Best Friends Animal Society The big pieces – shelter evacuation and support for municipal shelters – are pretty well in place, but there are a number of grassroots organizations filling in the gaps and working in the field...

Sep 3, 2012 0

Isaac Inundates New Orleans, Low-Lying Parishes Flooded   Best Friends Animal Society Hurricane Isaac, downgraded now to a tropical storm, is delivering a somber seventh-anniversary reminder to the Gulf Coast. The storm, as anyone who has a TV probably knows, is less powerful than...

Aug 30, 2012 0

Cat TV   Best Friends Animal Society There is a strange and unexplained phenomenon on the Internet — the popularity of cat images and videos. Cats sleeping in bowls, cats playing the piano, cats yodeling, cats sleeping on top of...

Aug 29, 2012 0

American Bar Association Steps Up For Pit Bulls   Best Friends Animal Society The American Bar Association (ABA) is committed to establishing model ethical codes, among the many support services that it provides for the legal profession. It is the largest voluntary...

Aug 11, 2012 0