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Urgent Appeal for Flex, the Greyhound

Animal Person

Owen County Friends of Animals (KY) is a non-profit organization that fosters and seeks adoptions for the dogs picked up by their local dog warden. Dogs they can not place in foster care or find adoptive homes for are euthanized after 14 days by county ordinance. Doesn't he look like my boy Charles ?

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. And so, the U.S. Navy, having acquired authority over the island, began to trap, and then to shoot, the goats.

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