From the category archives:

Community Service

Animal Angel Tree

14 December 2011

written by MattieDog in the Community Service section of The Anipal Times

Hazel Waiting for Santa

The holidays bring special opportunities to help others–the Angel Tree program is a way to help animals throughout the season!

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The Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center

8 December 2011

written by MattieDog in the Community Service section of The Anipal Times

Hippotherapy

Join me as I visit a Colorado therapeutic horse riding center dedicated to helping the physical, psychological and social well-being of persons with disabilities.

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National Guide Dog Month

by Cokie the Cat September 26, 2011
Natural Balance Guide Dog Month Promo

Actor Dick Van Patten founded National Guide Dog Month in 2008. Rick Rockhill from Natural Balance Pet Foods explained to Cokie the Cat how that came about.

Savin’ Lives, One Sniff at a Time

by Teeny's Friends September 16, 2011
Bastrop State Park 9-5-11 Credit Reuters

Search and rescue dogs have been working hard during the past few weeks to help with the Texas brush fires.

Poetry, A Park And A Petition For Pups

by Cheshire Kitten May 11, 2011
Squirt Blossom MacGougalheimer

Humans in Seguin, Texas, celebrated dogs and the new dog park with a literary reading and the launch of a new animal welfare citizen initiative.

Cat Colony Heroine

by Romeo the Cat April 6, 2011
Breakfast with Mrs. Raccoon. Source: Connie A.

Meet Connie A. and learn how she cares for two feral cat colonies.

Search And Rescue In Japan

by Cheshire Kitten March 26, 2011
Joe and Hunter rest between searches in Ofunato City LO Photo CA-

Six highly trained dogs from California were among the first to respond to crisis of the earthquake and tsunami that began in Japan on 11 March.

The Impawtance of Socializing Shelter Anipals

by Teeny's Friends November 2, 2010
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Socialization makes a shelter pet more adoptable but tight budgets and understaffing often leave shelter pets lacking. Your humans can volunteer to visit and you can donate some toys to stimulate their environment. Help bring them one step closer to their forever home.

The Calling To Care For Feral Cats

by Cheshire Kitten October 30, 2010
Shelter for feral cats

A lot of people care for and about feral cats, but they don’t often make it onto the evening news or into the morning newspaper. AT writer @CheshireK highlights the stories of a few of the dedicated humans caring for feral cats around the world.

Literacy Goes To The Dogs

by Cheshire Kitten October 17, 2010
PAWS to R.E.A.D. at Olympia Library

Humans are finally recognizing that helping human kids learn to read is one of the many talents of dogs. The practice of training animals to work in literacy training has taken off in Canada, China, Australia and the United States.

Caring Animals Making A Difference

by Kolo Martin October 3, 2010
Therapty dogs Dusty and Hurley in their therapy scarves

Having animals certainly makes people’s lives richer but some anipals take this a step further and have their own jobs helping people. Dusty and Hurley – @JustAnotherTrnd on Twitter – visit people in an assisted living facility.

Service Anipals: Sniff Fluffy

by Colby & Missy August 25, 2010
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Fluffy is a Pyrenees-golden retriever mix who now lives with his “lady’s” daughter because his hooman died. We interviewed Fluffy’s hooman about how Fluffy helped her mom.

Service Anipals: Sniff Royal

by Colby & Missy August 16, 2010
Royal taking break from helping her mommy

Royal is a yellow Labrador Retriever. Lisa has a wheelchair thingy like mommy and Royal helps Lisa pick ups stuffs that gets dropped. Lisa said she got Royal to helps her but also to have an anipal for “companionship.”

Service Anipals: Working To Help Hoomans Live Good

by Colby & Missy August 9, 2010
service dogs

We Smith kitties help our mommy a lot. Colby gives her cuddles and helps her put on eyeliner by jumping on her shoulder when she does it. Missy helps supervise when mommy does laundry or cooks or watches TV. We good kitties [...]

How One Dog Touched Millions

by Romeo the Cat June 6, 2010

As you guys know, I love to find pets and people who are true inspirations to the rest of us. Today I want to tell you about the amazing Surf Dog, Ricochet. You may have heard of @surfdogricochet and her work. She’s [...]

Photographer Puts Rescue Pets in a New Light

by Romeo the Cat May 15, 2010
Jazzy, Katie, and Lily

It warms my floofy heart when I hear about someone taking it upon themselves to use their skills, give their time or even just find a way to donate items or food to a shelter or rescue. I know many people think [...]

Making a Difference – An Interview with Your Daily Cute

by Romeo the Cat April 17, 2010
@cosmohavanese and @yourdailycute smooch at BlogPaws 2010

Hai, friends. Romeo here, reporting on the wonderful things our anipal community is doing to help homeless and neglected pets. This month I caught up with Dorian Wagner who, first and foremost, is staff to Pimp and Moo. She is also the [...]

Boris Kitty Raises Money

by Romeo the Cat April 3, 2010

As we all know, there are so many animals in need out there. As a community, we’ve accomplished amazing things by each contributing a little bit so that together we make a big impact. There are lots of anipals who do great [...]

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