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S.A.F.E. Pet Rescue, which was started in September 2008, recently celebrated its 500th pet adoption in just nine months of operation. S.A.F.E., which stands for Saving Animals from Euthanasia, is a non-profit, all-volunteer group funded by donations who gets dogs and cats from local animal controls when their time has run out and they are facing euthanasia. The animals are treated by ...
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With the land chosen, the architects in place, and a construction manager at risk selected, designs for the city’s new Animal Services Center should soon start taking shape.
A Twin Cities mother, now charged with first-degree murder in the death of her son, told police she killed him as part of a suicide pact.
WASHINGTON (BP)--The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has posted on its website its version of the health care reform bill. It's called the "Affordable Health Choices Act," and, as promised, it contains a public health care option.
The House of Lords voted against a controversial move to protect Britons who help terminally-ill relatives travel to die at assisted suicide clinics overseas.
LOS ANGELES, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Social Compassion in Legislation (SCIL), a California-based nonprofit organization focused on reducing pet overpopulation through legislation, today reported that the total number of euthanasia of cats and dogs entering California municipal shelters increased 14.6 percent statewide - from 378,445 to 433,512 -between 2004 to 2008 based on recently released ...
Lawmakers voted on Tuesday voted against a controversial move to protect Britons who help terminally-ill relatives travel to die at assisted suicide clinics overseas.
CARMEL - The Putnam Humane Society is reshaping itself - again - under a new president and four other new board members.
It's a push to increase animal adoption and decrease euthanasia in Hobbs. This week, animal control officers are working out of a new, nearly three million dollar shelter. Officials hope it's the first step in stopping an overpopulation of dogs and cats.
Long before John Lyle Roberts fired a single round into the back of his sleeping wife's head he began typing a suicide note. He tinkered with it again and again -- 22 times in the three months leading up to...
The owner of the Poki Roni Ranch has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assisted suicide. Travis Kirchner, 56, entered his plea today. He is accused of helping his mother, Patricia, end her life.
Most pet owners and pet lovers are special people — maybe it’s due to their association with their animal companions. That said, I’d like to share a portion of an e-mail I received last week from the owner of an aging dog with terminal lymphoma. The e-mail was sent following a very tough decision to opt for euthanasia for her golden lab, with the dog’s welfare being her top priority.
A new study finds no evidence to suggest that a controversial antidote recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to treat patients poisoned with highly toxic insecticides improves their chance of survival. The results may even add weight to existing concerns about pralidoxime, the treatment recommended by the WHO, by suggesting that it could be harmful in patients who have deliberately ...
A drive to raise $3.2 million for a new Denton animal shelter is quietly under way after years of planning, even as the recession throws the timing of the project's construction into doubt. The Denton Animal Shelter Foundation has raised nearly $200,000 in pledges and gifts, mostly through one-on-one meetings with acquaintances, said Bette Sherman, chairwoman of the nonprofit foundation.
As controversial pet spay-neuter bill advances in state Legislature, Santa Cruz's dramatic drop in pet overpopulation means it no longer has to kill animals to open up space for others in its shelters
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