A group of college kids spend their Summer vacation rebuilding and rehabilitating an Animal Shelter in Morehead, Kentucky to help give the dogs a better quality of life and help them find loving homes.

I would like to thank Denise Bash of Animal Lifeline And Rescue University and Liz Neuschatz of Petfinder.com Foundation for allowing me to document all the great work they are doing to help animals in need.

Special thanks to Emily Valentine and Bissell Homecare for sponsoring the trip and taking care of us while we were down in Kentucky. We couldn’t ask for better sponsors and they really do care about the animals.

Like the Bissell Facebook Fan Page and also register and they will donate 50 cents to the Petfinder.com Foundation for up to $50,000.00!

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During a promotion called “Iams Adoptable Pet of the Game” where a local dog from a shelter is featured for adoption, the dog got loose while being escorted off the field.

If you’d like to help Herbie heal, click here!

You can call it fate or destiny, either one sounds about right when it comes to this family.

A few years ago a young man faced with family crisis had to make a difficult decision and surrender his beloved dog of five years, Haley, to the local shelter. Though its been some time, his daughter never stopped thinking about their beloved Haley. He couldn’t stop thinking of Haley either, her photos still remain in his iphone.

Recently, he decided it was time to get another dog. He walked into the shelter and a shepherd mix in one of the kennels went crazy with joy. He couldn’t believe it, this was Haley, their beloved Haley. Turns out their dog had been adopted in 2007 but was returned just a few days prior because she just kept running away.

You can imagine the joy they must have had when crossing paths again and he adopted the dog back immediately. Now Haley will be back with the family she has always loved and missed. Wishing them years of happiness and joy!

Kelli Cameron pets her new dog Ranger while her son Everett, 3, looks on. (Lane Christiansen /Tribune)

From The Chicago Tribune

A goofy set of green-and-red felt antlers won one shelter dog his life, a long trip and, ultimately, a home in Illinois.

Ranger’s trek from Emporia, Kan., to his arrival Thursday at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling airport covered about 650 miles and required the help of pilots, shelter workers, rescue organizations and a dedicated adoptive family.

“This whole thing has been unbelievable,” said Kelli Cameron, of St. Charles, Ranger’s new owner. “It really is a miracle he’s still alive.”

Ranger’s tale began in Emporia, where the stray was found wandering last summer. Employees at the local shelter fell in love with the friendly black, gray and white pointer mix, but couldn’t find him a home and couldn’t bear to put him down.

“We had such a horrible time finding a place for him,” said shelter director Peggy Derrick. “We’ve been trying desperately to get him adopted.”

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It’s about time we did something about sales of puppy mill animals in pet shops.

City Council members in West Hollywood, Calif are taking a step to vote on a proposal for pet stores to sell only rescue or shelter pets. Assisting the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the City of West Hollywood is Carole Davids of Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) who is drafting the ordinance, as well as providing evidence sufficient to cause the City Council to react.

Carole stated “we’ll send a strong message to abusive commercial breeders all over the nation”

Changes are being made in Indiana as well with movements to provide would-be buyers at pet stores with the animals background and medical informations. Proponents of the bill indicated that pet stores often put false claims that their dogs or cats were all from local breeders.

Even though change is in the process, because it is still legal, the best way to stop this ‘business’ is to stop purchasing these dogs from pet stores. Instead, adopt one from a shelter or rescue group. Its a life saved and one less puppy born into abuse.

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