Animal Shelter: Share the Love

I love puppies. I love kittens. Basically, everything is better when its tiny, cute and small. BUT, there are so many older pets that need a home!

The Animal Center in Santa Maria is inviting the public to spend some quality time with some of these needy animals in their "Share The Love" pet adoption event.

"Over a hundred animals up for adoption right now," said Stacy Crump, Commumity Outreach Coordinator."We encourage people to come down take a look at what we have spend some quality time with that animal to make sure you are making the right decision, and make sure that dog or cat is right for you're family," said Stacy.

All you need to do is spend a day playing with adorable pets, fill out an application and take your pick!

"The last thing we want is one of these guys to get comfortable in a home and have to come back," comments Stacy as she pet's Sam, a pet up for adoption.

Santa Barbara County shelters hope to becoming a no kill animal shelter, but that can only happen with YOUR HELP!

Forget those yucky chalky hearts, give someone the gift of a furry best friend!

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Thinking of Pet Adoption? Rent First!

Rent a dog for a few hours or even a weekend.

This is a great way to try out different breeds, or to see if your family can handle the responsibility.Each dog is therapy certified and is fully trained, I think the only problem would be letting them go!

So far, I've only found FlexPetz to service in the USA with locations in New York, Los Angeles and San Diego. But don't worry! They're expanding to Manhattan, San Francisco, London in UK, Boston, and Washington DC in 2008.


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Adopting a Celebrity Dog

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I read an interesting story this weekend about a beautiful Golden retriever that had been traveling up and down a six mile section of Highway 10, here in Los Angeles, nursing a broken leg for nearly TWO months! Highway patrol, concerned citizens and animal rescuers had attempted numerous rescues but to no avail. Then one lucky patrol officer was able to coax the retriever they had since named "Oleander," into the back of his patrol car and off they sped to a Riverside County Department of Animal Services shelter in Banning.
The interesting part of this story is that within two days for announcing that Oleander was up for adoption, this media-hyped puppy had received 90 calls of willing parties and even 10 calls of people claiming to be the dog's rightful owner!
What's sad about this situation is that Oleander is just one of thousands of pets in shelters right now, and simply because she was on the news, people responded. It was her celebrity that people wanted.


An interesting quote I found in the LA Times, "Getting an animal on television is a guaranteed adoption," said Ed Boks, the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services, which runs six city shelters. "I think it has to do, perhaps, with an affinity with fame. A lot of folks want to touch that celebrity status through adopting the animal that everyone now wants."
I suppose it really is just another case of "A crowd attracts a crowd."
Where does this obsessive celebrity mindset come from? Frankly it's all kind of lost on me. And that's a funny thing to say when you live in Tinseltown - Hollywood, California.

Brandon James



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Breaking News: PETA Fights AKC

Round 1!

I would think that PETA and the AKC would be BFFs, but PETA will show up at the American Kennel Club's Annual Championship Dog Show with signs saying "AKC Kills Shelter Dogs' Chances."

PETA's Side: Breeders and pet stores steal homes for orphaned pets in shelters

AKC's Side: Our pets are cute and we deserve an award!

Can't they just get along? Did no one watch Lady and the Tramp?
Which side are you on?

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Kudos to Selma Blair!

Pictured here is Selma Blair with her ultra hot boyfriend Matthew Felker and her ultra cute dog Wink! Wink isn't your average hollywood 600$ tea-cup chihuahua, no sir-ee. This cutie is a Jack Russel Mutt adopted from the Lange Foundation, dedicated to saving impounded pets. My favorite thing about Wink- he only has one eye! Awww.

Selma definetly sees past the hollywood fads of pedigree dogs. "You want a three-legged dog with a wheel chair or a dog that has no bowel control, that’s the place to go. There are amazing dogs,” she’s said.

I think I definetely like Selma just a little bit more, almost enough to watch her new movie, the sequel to Hellboy-almost.

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Kudos to Diane Keaton

It sounds like a dog fairytale, or more like a canine rendition of Annie. A lone dog wandering the streets of Austin gets picked up by a mysterious stranger, only that mysterious stranger is Academy-Award winning actress Diane Keaton!

Red, or the luckiest dog on earth, now lives with Diane in her new home in Beverly Hills. Red is not only lucky because he has a super star sugar momma like Diane, but because he's lived to the ripe old age of 16.

But Red isn't the only animal Diane has rescued. She has been the spokeswoman for "Iams Home 4 the Holiays" animal adoption campaign for the last 6 years. It is an international organization used to get as many pets adopted from the shelter during the holidays as possible.

For Diane's full phone interview and a picture of the real Red ( sorry that's not him above, but just another dog that Diane has shown some love to) click here.

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