Archive for January, 2009
Petland: Stop Selling Puppies
This weekend, as I started receiving reports back from attendees at the 22 Petland stores where The HSUS hosted rallies urging Petland to stop buying dogs from puppy mills, I was so pleased to hear the results. Despite freezing temperatures, snow, and rain in some . . .
Talk Back: Senior Pets, Part 2
Last Friday I posted several of your responses to the story of Granny Annie, a venerable 3-legged Boston Terrier rescued by May Lattanzio. Right away I received another note from May, shedding more light into Annie’s recovery. She writes: I read all your comments to . . .
Fur-Free First Lady
I remember my late friend and animal advocate Oleg Cassini telling me once that one of his greatest regrets in life was dressing Jacqueline Kennedy with a leopard fur coat. Because of her beauty and elegance, and the buzz about the new young couple occupying . . .
See You at Petland
It’s not often you can pencil "saving puppies" into your weekend plans, but here’s an opportunity. You may remember that The HSUS released the results of an 8-month investigation into Petland last November, exposing the chain as the nation’s largest retail supporter of puppy mills. . . .
Now Showing: Animal Cruelty
Adam Liptak in today’s New York Times wrote a measured piece about the legal brouhaha over a 1999 law that The HSUS and the Doris Day Animal League helped to pass to ban the commercial sale of videos depicting extreme and illegal acts of animal . . .
On the Ropes
Two weeks ago, meat industry groups announced they’d filed a legal challenge to portions of the upgraded Downed Animal Protection Act in California, passed last year by the state legislature in the wake of our investigation into a southern California slaughter plant formerly called Hallmark/Westland. . . .
Talk Back: Senior Pets
A number of you liked last week’s post on Granny Annie, the 3-legged Boston Terrier whose story a fellow blog reader shared with me. Like Annie’s guardian, so many of us have had meaningful experiences with senior and special-needs pets. Here are some of your . . .
