Posts Tagged ‘animal rescue’

Hockey & Dogs


03 Feb

How often do I get to write a post that combines hockey and animal rescue? How happy does it make me that I get to do so today?

Over the All-Star break, St. Louis Blues’ captain, center David Backes was not playing in the game. Did he sit home and mope? Absolutely not.

His wife is very involved in animal rescue and Backes, his wife, and his flight instructor did a rescue flight fromSt LouistoHoustonand back to bring three stray dogs to the Five Acres Animal Shelter, which is no-kill.

As of today, I’m a fan.

Animal Rescue


27 Jan

I will do a longer post about this next week over on Life by Pets, but I think this article by Emily Yoffe over at Slate is something all animal lovers should be paying attention to. On online boards, I’ve been around people who accuse anyone who buys a pet from a breeder of “killing shelter pets”. And while in some shelters, it’s still pretty easy to just walk in and find a pet, that’s not always the case. Rescue organizations need to figure out that a perfect home isn’t likely, and a good “forever” home is better than none.

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