Category: Pets Market

Denise Angus has operated a pet rescue center and food bank for the last seven years, but she has never seen such a “remarkable increase in demand” for the services the center provides. Angus, the founder of Mattie’s Place, says the need for help to feed pets has been soared in recent years. The center has gone from feeding 500 to 600 pets per month before the COVID-19 pandemic to about 1,200 per month. “The need is so huge, I’ve never seen anything like it in all the years I’ve been doing this,” Angus told CBC Toronto. “It’s a really…

Not only was the weather ideal for Saturday’s Steps for Pets Walkathon in Morden, but it also drew a record number of registrants. One of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the Pembina Valley Humane Society, the Walkathon drew over 60 individual registrants. “I can say for sure that this has been a record-breaking year when it comes to registrants for the Steps for Pets Walkathon,” said the PVHS’s Holly Thorne. “And we’ve been doing this for a long time, but we’ve never had this many individual registrants. We had over 60 of them this year, and they all…

It was on a drive with her sister that Joaney Starblanket got the idea that changed her life for the better, a little over a month ago. Starblanket said her sister thought it would be funny if pets had their own treaty cards. “I thought to myself, why not,” she told CTV News. That “why not” then became a few quick edits on Canva, then a template, then one for her own cat, ‘Goober,’ and Starblanket said it blew her sister away during their next visit. She shared it with her coworkers in Yorkton, who told her that she had…

A man has been spotted sunbathing with 20 of his snakes in a local park, setting off a debate among internet users about which pets are appropriate, and which aren’t, for public spaces. The Friends of Barshaw Park Facebook group said it had been contacted by several people “with concerns about someone bringing snakes into the park”, which is in Paisley, Scotland. A post read: “It has been reported that recently 20 snakes were brought in by the person. “Renfrewshire Council has told us that no-one has permission to bring snakes into Barshaw Park. The police request that if you…

Milo (Image: Blue Cross) A pets re-homing center in Burford is looking for new owners for a variety of animals, including cats, dogs, horses and guinea pigs. Blue Cross is a charity which provides specialist care and support for pets and their re-homing center in Burford is looking for new owners for a wide variety of animals. As part of the Oxford Mail’s campaign to help re-home pets, below is a full list of animals at Burford who require a new home. READ MORE: Boris Johnson is a ‘problem solver’ but his ‘career is over’ Milo Oxford Mail: Milos Milo…

Following her usual morning routine, Chrissy Villarreal kissed her dog Petey goodbye as she left for work. It was the last time he would do so. And it was all because of a preventable accident. Vets are warning too many furry friends are getting their paws on the common and seemingly harmless household item of empty snack bags, often with tragic outcomes. The caution comes after Ms Villarreal shared the heartbreak of losing her “baby boy” to the hazard. In a Facebook post, Ms Villarreal said she could not wrap her head around what happened to Petey. She said her…

After learning that his mother’s home in a Hammonds Plains, NS, subdivision was being evacuated on Monday due to the wildfire raging nearby, Darian Savoie’s top priority was making sure her two cats got out OK. His mother is out of town for a couple of weeks, so he sent a family friend who lives in the area to retrieve the cats, Callie and Maya. Callie the calico made it back home after being reunited with Darian Savoie. (Submitted by Darian Savoie) The family friend was able to find Maya but Callie was hiding and had to be left behind…

Fifty years ago, my first article arguing that it is wrong to treat animals as we did appeared in the New York Review of Books. Two years later my book “Animal Liberation” was published, after which it is credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement. Similar ethical perspectives are now supported by many philosophers. But the factual descriptions in that book of what we do to animals have long ceased to capture current conditions accurately. In updating the book, I could not avoid the question: Have we made progress in our attitudes toward animals and our treatment of them…