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adopt-a-thons this weekend

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:00:57 -0700

Adopt-A-Thons
Saturday, August 14, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Queen Anne
2127 Queen Anne Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
206.283.3959

Saturday, August 14, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Ballard
1909 NW Market St
Seattle, WA 980107
206.782-1500

Saturday, August 14, 2010
11am - 3pm
All the Best Pet Care - Madison
2713 E Madison St
Seattle, WA 98112
206.329.8565

Sunday, August 15, 2010
11am - 4pm
The Forsythe Studio
4456 California Ave SW
between Genesee St & Oregon St
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 935-1865

adopt-a-thons & events July

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:52:08 -0700

Adopt-A-Thons
Saturday, July 10, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Ballard
1909 NW Market St
Seattle, WA 980107
206.782-1500

Saturday, July 10, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Queen Anne
2127 Queen Anne Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
206.283.3959

Sunday, July 11, 2010
The Forsythe Studio
4456 California Ave SW
between Genesee St & Oregon St
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 935-1865

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Ballard
1909 NW Market St
Seattle, WA 980107
206.782-1500

Visit Our Booth
West Seattle Summer Fest
Saturday & Sunday, July 10 & 11, 2010
West Seattle Alaska Street Junction

Taking on the city: One way to get rabies exemptions for sick dogs

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:24:02 -0700

While we need to keep our pet population healthy with standard immunizations, the question has come up: How much is too much? Christie Keith reported on the growing awareness of the downfalls of over vaccinating dogs recently in the SFGate. More and more dog owners are willing to curb some or all of their dog's vaccines - for chronically sick dogs especially - but the decision to stop rabies vaccines makes outlaws out of us in places where rabies renewal is mandated by law.
Solving this conundrum has to involve amending our animal laws to include exceptions, which is a tall order. This is why we were so impressed when one of our longtime friends - Susi Allen of Monterey - took on her city in order to save her sick dog from a potentially damaging requirement.
Read full article

2 NY Times Articles on Link Between Animal Cruelty and Other Crimes

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:20:41 -0700

The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome
On a late May afternoon last year in southwest Baltimore, a 2-year-old female pit bull terrier was doused in gasoline and set alight. A young city policewoman on her regular patrol of the neighborhood ... saw a cloud of black smoke rising from the burning dog. She hopped out, ran past idle onlookers and managed to put out the flames with her sweater. The dog, subsequently named Phoenix, survived for four days with burns over 95 percent of her body, but soon began to succumb to kidney failure and had to be euthanized.

A month later, the mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, announced the creation of the Anti-Animal-Abuse Task Force to work in concert with city officials, local law enforcement and animal rights and animal-control groups to find ways to better prevent, investigate and prosecute such crimes.

...the beleaguered pit bull is merely the most publicized victim of a phenomenon that a growing number of professionals — including police officers, prosecutors, psychologists, social workers, animal-control officers, veterinarians and dogcatchers — are now addressing with a newfound vigor: wanton cruelty toward animals. Before 1990, only six states had felony provisions in their animal-cruelty laws; now 46 do. Two years ago, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed the nation’s first Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation Unit, a rolling veterinary hospital and forensic lab that travels around the country helping traditional law-enforcement agencies follow the evidentiary trails of wounded or dead animals back to their abusers.

In addition to a growing sensitivity to the rights of animals, another significant reason for the increased attention to animal cruelty is a mounting body of evidence about the link between such acts and serious crimes of more narrowly human concern, including illegal firearms possession, drug trafficking, gambling, spousal and child abuse, rape and homicide. In the world of law enforcement — and in the larger world that our laws were designed to shape — animal-cruelty issues were long considered a peripheral concern and the province of local A.S.P.C.A. and Humane Society organizations; offenses as removed and distinct from the work of enforcing the human penal code as we humans have deemed ourselves to be from animals. But that illusory distinction is rapidly fading.

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Animal Abuse as Clue to Additional Cruelties
Responding to growing evidence that people who abuse animals often go on to attack humans, states are increasing the penalties for animal cruelty and developing better methods for tracking convicted offenders...“Animal abuse is one of the four indicators that the F.B.I. profilers use to asses future violent behavior, so I don’t see why we should not use it too,” said Diana S. Urban, a Democratic state representative in Connecticut who sponsored a bill mandating that animal control workers and child welfare workers cross-report suspected animal, child or domestic abuse.

Frank R. Ascione, a professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work who has extensively studied the topic, said, “The research is pretty clear that there are connections between animal abuse and domestic violence and child abuse.”

One study found that in 88 percent of homes where children were physically abused, pets were mistreated too...Professor Ascione, who also advises law enforcement officials in abuse cases, said that cross-reporting requirements helped foster early intervention.

States have grown increasingly intolerant of animal abuse over the years. Two decades ago, just six states had felony level animal cruelty laws. Now all but four do.

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adopt-a-thon & Joy Turner, Animal Communicator

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:38:40 -0700

Adopt-a-thon
Saturday, June 12, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Bellevue
1048 116th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425.453.0440
across from Overlake hospital

Also at the Bellevue Store
Saturday June 12th, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Joy Turner, Animal Communicator
Discover how animal communication for pet therapy with Joy Turner can change your life. Using Animal communication for pets, Joy Turner lets you know what your companions think and feel. Exciting!
Learn about animal communication
Address behavior, training, health
Discover likes/dislikes, preferences, desires
Learn what animals think, feel and say
Understand your animal companions more clearly
Develop deeper relationships
Please contact Bellevue ATB for rates and to schedule your appointment: bellevue.atb@gmail.com or 425-453-0440

adopt-a-thons this weekend Kittens Still Available!

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:03:55 -0700

This Weekends’ Adopt-a-thons
Saturday, June 5, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Bellevue
1048 116th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425.453.0440
across from Overlake hospital

Saturday, June 5, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Mercer Island
3037 78th Ave SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040
206.232.4377

Sunday, June 6, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Ballard
1909 NW Market St
Seattle, WA 980107
206.782-1500

Animals Still Suffer at Iams

Mon, 24 May 2010 21:28:19 -0700

For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator worked undercover at Sinclair Research Center, a laboratory hired by Iams, and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer. Dogs had gone crazy because they were confined to barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs were left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after chunks of muscle had been hacked from their thighs, dogs were surgically debarked, and horribly sick dogs and cats were neglected and left in cages to suffer without any veterinary care.
Footage shows that Iams representatives toured the facility and witnessed dogs who were circling in their cells and sweltering in the summer heat. Iams knew the truth yet did nothing to protect the animals.
Read the full report here

adopt-a-thons & events

Tue, 18 May 2010 11:34:47 -0700

Adopt-a-thons
Saturday, May 22, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Bellevue
1048 116th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425.453.0440
across from Overlake hospital

Saturday, May 22, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Queen Anne
2127 Queen Anne Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
206.283.3959

Sunday, May 23, 2010
11am - 4pm
All the Best Pet Care - Ballard
1909 NW Market St
Seattle, WA 980107
206.782-1500

Visit Our Booth
Westwood Village Street Fair
Saturday & Sunday, May 22 & 23, 2010
11am - 7pm
26th Ave SW and SW Barton
West, Seattle

Let’s “FIX” The Problem Together a success, thanks to you

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:02:34 -0700

Marianne (FAF) and I (FCAT) would like to thank everyone who came out and volunteered and bought stuff at the silent auction. It was a great success - we beat our goal!
Thanks for your support!
Pamela and Marianne

Shine

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 00:28:52 -0700