Animals
Alasandra is going to take back her blog for a minute (please forgive me). I dropped by A Humane Nation and read Wayne Pacelle's post Pets Shouldn't Balance the Budget
Needless to say I think taxing veterinary services is a horrible idea. I know many people struggle to take their beloved pets to the veterinarian already. Especially those who have pets with an ongoing illness like Moki (if you want to help defray Moki's veterinary expenses click here to go to his blog), to tax health care for pets is just heartless. But rest easy if you want a face lift Governor Schwarzenegger isn't planning to tax cosmetic surgery. What a sick world when someones looks are more important then a pets health.
- Lily Rogers Encourages Us To Provide Low Cost Spay & Neuter Programs
Pet licensing isn't the way to solve this problem I am appalled that anyone would see pets as a source of county revenue. What's next, licensing our children to raise revenue? In a July 22 Forum ("How to kill two birds... but not another kitten"),...
- Natural Balance Reimburses Pet Owner For Pet Food Recall Vet Bills
Read all about it at Itchmo. Once the claim got to their insurance company, things changed a bit. Even though all my pets survived, the insurance company was going to pay the “replacement value” of the pets only, which was about 6% of my total bills....
- Pets Before Profit
Elaine Vigneault has a pets before profit button for your blog, you can get the button here. Itchmo has a petition for you to sign here. Even if you don't have pets please consider signing the petition. After all what's bad for our pets is...
- I Have A Headache ~how Do We Know What Dry Cat Food Is Safe?
The news that dry food, made by an undisclosed pet food manufacturer, may also be contaminated with the substance causing kidney failure in pets, as well as troubling implications for the human food supply, overshadowed some of the medical news that came...
- New Numbers From Petconnection, 2,237 Pets Dead
This morning from the PetConnection database (8:30 a.m. PT): 2,237 deceased pets (1,257 cats, 980 dogs). I am still trying to deal with the loss of Whiskers, trying to comprehend that 2,237 other pets have meet the same fate is so................................
Animals
Pets Shouldn't Balance the Budget
Alasandra is going to take back her blog for a minute (please forgive me). I dropped by A Humane Nation and read Wayne Pacelle's post Pets Shouldn't Balance the Budget
In these hard economic times, state and local officials should not try to balance budgets by adding to the suffering of animals. That’s just common sense. But sometimes common sense isn’t enough. For instance, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, obviously desperate to scrounge up new revenue to eat away at a massive budget shortfall, has advanced the awful idea of placing a tax on veterinary services.
Needless to say I think taxing veterinary services is a horrible idea. I know many people struggle to take their beloved pets to the veterinarian already. Especially those who have pets with an ongoing illness like Moki (if you want to help defray Moki's veterinary expenses click here to go to his blog), to tax health care for pets is just heartless. But rest easy if you want a face lift Governor Schwarzenegger isn't planning to tax cosmetic surgery. What a sick world when someones looks are more important then a pets health.
- Lily Rogers Encourages Us To Provide Low Cost Spay & Neuter Programs
Pet licensing isn't the way to solve this problem I am appalled that anyone would see pets as a source of county revenue. What's next, licensing our children to raise revenue? In a July 22 Forum ("How to kill two birds... but not another kitten"),...
- Natural Balance Reimburses Pet Owner For Pet Food Recall Vet Bills
Read all about it at Itchmo. Once the claim got to their insurance company, things changed a bit. Even though all my pets survived, the insurance company was going to pay the “replacement value” of the pets only, which was about 6% of my total bills....
- Pets Before Profit
Elaine Vigneault has a pets before profit button for your blog, you can get the button here. Itchmo has a petition for you to sign here. Even if you don't have pets please consider signing the petition. After all what's bad for our pets is...
- I Have A Headache ~how Do We Know What Dry Cat Food Is Safe?
The news that dry food, made by an undisclosed pet food manufacturer, may also be contaminated with the substance causing kidney failure in pets, as well as troubling implications for the human food supply, overshadowed some of the medical news that came...
- New Numbers From Petconnection, 2,237 Pets Dead
This morning from the PetConnection database (8:30 a.m. PT): 2,237 deceased pets (1,257 cats, 980 dogs). I am still trying to deal with the loss of Whiskers, trying to comprehend that 2,237 other pets have meet the same fate is so................................