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Showing the top 10 latest headlines:
November 12, 2008
SOURCE: WTXX
By video courtesy of wtxx.com
Turkey, chicken escape Thanksgiving fate, safely land at Milford Animal Shelter
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August 28, 2008
By CT Pet Projects Special Announcement
Mark your calendar - on September 27, 2008, CTPP is proudly sponsoring Responsible Dog Ownership Day at Paws N Effect Canine Training Center in Hamden. Contests, live demonstrations and Canine Good Citizen testing are on the agenda among other PAWsome doggie activities! The event is sponsored by the American Kennel Club, Paws N Effect, The Refined Canine and CT Pet Projects.
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February 7, 2008
SOURCE: WTNH.com
By Team 8 Investigator Alan Cohn
(WTNH) _ You spend hundreds of dollars on a pet store puppy -- take them home and welcome them into your family. Then, something goes wrong. Are there any laws that protect consumers when they're suddenly confronted with hundreds or thousands of dollars in vet bills when their puppies get sick? The answer to this question: Yes -- there is a Pet Shop Lemon Law. Is it effective? Here's the catch -- no. And you're about to hear why from a local family with a heart-wrenching story.
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February 5, 2008
Raiders' Cooper dedicates himself to care of abused and mean dogs at animal shelter
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
By Gwen Knapp, Chronicle Staff Writer
For a long time, Jarrod Cooper wouldn't tell anyone at the Oakland Animal Shelter what he did for a living. He wasn't there as an NFL player, as the anti-Michael Vick. ... he arrived at the shelter like any other volunteer. The staff members didn't ask too many questions about the heavily muscled young man with elaborate tattoos, but they did find him intriguing.
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January 16, 2008 By Submitted by Member Organization - The Hop-A-Long Hollow
The Hop-A-Long Hollow is partnering with Petco in their Norwalk, CT location on the education and adoption of rabbits. All rabbits that will be at the Petco Norwalk location will be provided by and for adoption only through The Hop-A-Long Hollow.
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October 29, 2007
National Effort Aims To Crack Down On Abuse
SOURCE: WSFB.com
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The state has established a hot line for citizens to report illegal animal fighting
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May 22, 2008
SOURCE: Connecticut Post/ConnPost.com
By John Burgeson
BRIDGEPORT — There are better days ahead for the canines and felines housed at the city's decrepit animal shelter on Asylum Street. The city's new state-of-the-art animal shelter on Evergreen Street is expected to open in about two weeks, according to officials.
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May 13, 2008
SOURCE: Cox News Service, posted on chron.com/Houston Chronicle
By Shelley Emling
Activists across continent celebrate passage of several laws, including one protecting bulls
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March 5, 2008
SOURCE: WTNH News Channel 8
By Erin Cox, News Channel 8
A Monroe family asks for help finding new homes for two dozen dogs -- who can no longer be guaranteed a good life. . . . It turns out that an elderly woman has been breeding dogs at the Monroe home for years, but is now in a nursing home. She can no longer care for the animals, so her son is voluntarily giving them to the SPCA to be put up for adoption.
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February 12, 2008
SOURCE: PR Newswire
By (courtesy of FoxBusiness.com)
The grant allows the ARL of Boston to develop the first-in-the-nation Center for Shelter Dogs. Once completed, the Center for Shelter Dogs at the Animal Rescue League of Boston will provide a model for improving the welfare and eventual placement of homeless dogs cared for by humane organizations, animal control facilities and rescue groups in Massachusetts and throughout the nation.
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