Well, my awesome redbone coonhound Lady has done it again and is featured on the homepage news slider of Palo Alto Online. It’s for a good cause, as she’s promoting an event at the Palo Alto animal shelter this weekend, where shots are low cost and adoptions are half price. See my blog post on Love That Pup here:
Scottie Zimmerman is known as the moving force behind the Friends of the Palo Alto Animal Shelter, which formed this year to support this vital city service. We were glad to see her acknowledged in the Palo Alto Weekly as a “person of the year” for 2012. Keep up the great work Scottie! Check out the FOPAAS web site when you have the chance and consider becoming a supporter. Rocky, our Dogo Argentino, gives this a big tailwag.
There have been a few news stories about the potential closure of the Palo Alto animal shelter, such as this one by Gennady Sheyner posted on Palo Alto Online. Without getting into the politics of budget cuts, I can only say it would be a shame to lose this dedicated community service. Sometimes you may not know what you’re getting from city staff, but here it’s unambiguous in terms of the animal control officers, adoptions, spay and neuter, and vaccinations. I do think they make it too hard to adopt these days, but that’s another story. I was also concerned to read in comments to this related story, an interview with Sandy Stadler, head of animal services, that Stanford sends strays to a…
If you missed this dog-related article in Slate about the rigors you can go through these days in adopting a “rescue” dog, you might enjoy it. Author Emily Yoffe has a wonderful sense of humor. Back in the 1970s we adopted a lab mix from the Palo Alto pound, basically by walking in their, picking her out, and leaving with her. More recently, I went in with my little boy to try to adopt a bunny, and the process was somewhat different. I have had rabbits in the past and am actually fairly knowledgeable about them. We went through the whole interview process, and it was pretty funny that they wouldn’t let me have the bunny until they spoke with my husband on the…
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