4 The Love of Animals- animal rescue, wildlife, pets, and more!

Want your kitty to give you the stink eye? Make a kitten bonnet.

This is an event for Paridise Animal Rescue, if you are in the area, be sure to check it out!

Pooch Prance
Saturday June 9,2007
12:00pm(est) to 4:00pm(est)

*Pet Photo Booth *Best pet trick contest
*Microchip your pet *best Costume Contest
*Sponsor giveaway’s *longest sit Contest
*Canine Agility Demo’s *Pet?Owner look-a-like-
Contest

FREE T-SHIRTS
*Minimum donation of $15.00 for your pet,
$5.00 for each add’l pet

* IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING A SPONSOR PLEASE CALL MILO’S PET SERVICES (810)-614-0455

Paradise Animal Rescue
265 Howard Street
Lapeer,Mi 48446
www.parpets.org

A big part of this blog is promoting animal welfare, by spreading the word for rescue groups, wildlife groups, and other animal lovers. So if you are part of an animal welfare group, send me your events and rescue stories to help spread the word. I am happy to pass this information on in the effort to promote animal welfare, and it also helps your website gain exposure.

Another thing that I am happy to do is to help promote companies that make great products for pets and pet parents. Every now and then you may see a product or website review on this blog, hopefully you will find them helpful. If you are a company that would like to have a product featured here, please contact me for details on how that works.

My goal in doing this blog, and my website, is to help get the word out about the many homeless pets waiting for a second chance. You help me do this by sending in your stories, photos, and events.

This comes from Shannon of Maui Pet Therapy! I wish I could be in Maui right now! It would be fun to visit the therapy bunnies, and enjoy the beach a bit too.

MARS on the planet Maui? Are you wondering if I have lost my mind? Maui is sometimes like another planet… (a day in Paia… Maui friends know what I’m talking about)… and after all, we are an island. But though we are distanced from the mainland… we still reach for the stars!!

Our pet therapy program has created an affiliation with MARS - Maui Animal Rescue and Sanctuary! Several of their rescued rabbits work in our program and we decided it’s about time we work more closely together. I will be bringing back our animal education program in the fall (yes, with an already full pet therapy schedule) and want Maui’s children to see that we just don’t talk the talk, but we walk the WALK! We agree that spaying and neutering of animals is paramount, and this includes rabbits. MARS will be assisting us with all spay/neuter/microchip costs for our working rabbits in exchange for a $25 (per altered rabbit) donation to their organization. While this doesn’t seem to be a big deal, hold on to your socks my friends, the cheapest neuter price on Maui for a rabbit is $150!!! Average spay… $200!!! While some of our rabbits are already spayed/neutered, imagine if I had to start from scratch to alter 30 rabbits. Top end price… it would cost $6000 dollars. They would shut down my program.

Our own humane society does not spay/neuter rabbits leaving it to the private vets to handle it (which is why they’ve price fixed their services… yes, sometimes it hurts to live in paradise).

$25 for spay/neuter and microchip through MARS is a SWEEEEEEET deal!

I am ecstatic about this! MARS rescues, rehabilitates and adopts out many of their bunnies. We’re happy to endorse their outreach program to find the bunnies good homes and use them in our program when positions are available.

Mahalo (thank you) MARS for all of your kokua (help, support and assistance!). We’re still in need of donations to keep our program going. I don’t ask for much, every little bit helps. Donation button and info is on our main page.

Warmest aloha,
Shannon and all of the fuzzy, feathered and furry, pet therapy animals (Shannimals!!!)

Another little movie for furry friday.

Most pet owners love to take photos of their pets. I know that I sure do! It’s always so much fun to catch them in action, especially when they are doing something cute or funny. Plus, we like to have fun sharing our photos on Furry Friday!

I recently got an email about a great new technology just for pet parents. HP has come out with cameras that feature pet-eye fix built in. If you click the link you will see great examples of what this can do for your photos. In the email it said:

The best part about this new HP digital photography technology is that Pet-Eye Fix is an in-camera feature. You do not need to buy any new software for your computer, nor worry about your computer and its current running software being out of date. And because it is an in-camera feature, Pet-Eye fix is as easy to use as Red-Eye Removal and many other features that we use frequently when taking digital photos.

It’s nice to see that a company is recognizing pets and the important role that they play in our lives by creating technology geared for pet owners. Pretty neat stuff if you ask me!

One thing that I love is all the great indie artists out on the web (especially on Etsy). So, when I visited Mandypants shop and saw that she was donating part of her sales to benefit an animal rescue group I asked her to write a little something about it to share here.

There is very little more that I love to do besides craft if up, except helping animals. I decided recently to start donating 10% of my sales to a local animal shelter here in West Texas called The Haven. The Haven is a no kill shelter and they’re always needing some help. After I posted this on my site (www.mandypants.etsy.com) some others saw what I was doing and invited me to join EFA (Etsy For Animals). EFA donates part of their profits each month to a different animal charity. It’s so cool and I’m really excited to be a part of it! So far, I’ve gotten a decent chunk of change to donate, and that’s always a great feeling! I love craft for causes, and animals are always in need, it’s great to do my part. I wish I could house and feed every animal that needed it, but I’ve already got 3 cats, 3 fish and I’m babysitting a rabbit, I think my husband would move out if I tried to move any more animals in, ha! Check out my site at www.mandypants.etsy.com!

Thank you Mandy! I totally know what you are going through with the animals, my hubby thinks I want to live in a zoo with all the animals I would like to adopt. Good luck with your shop, and thanks for letting us all know about Esty for Animals!