Jenna & Snickers Promote Humane Education and Responsible Dog Ownership
Almost ten years after starting to blog, I removed my contact page and turned off comments on old posts today. I’ll leave the site up, because a few of our informative posts still get a lot of traffic. I may pull out an old draft and post something occasionally, but there won’t be any rhyme or reason to it. Maybe in another ten years, I’ll start writing again. You never know what might happen!
Someday, when I have a less demanding “real job” or can work for A.W.E. full time, I will resurrect the plan, put together a team, and make it happen.
This is the story of Kayla, a dog who went from dog fight bait, to homeless NYC street dog, to almost being euthanized in Miami Dade Animal Services, but eventually ended up living happily-ever-after on the Jersey Shore.
Zuki needed more than a fence to keep her safe at home, but a stake and tie out wouldn’t have provided enough space for her to run around. My father came up with the idea for this long cable run which solved the problem. Here are the instructions (with photos) for how we built it.
While planning Animals Who Educate, I’ve learned that there are a lot of things I don’t yet know about starting a non-profit humane education organization.
The Pet Tracker by Tagg – with GPS, an accelerometer, online maps, text and email notifications, and activity tracking – isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty awesome, especially if you have a fence jumper like my Shiba Inu, Zuki.
Few children who harm animals grow up to be serial killers, but many do grow up to abuse their intimate partners and their children. Stopping abuse towards animals is a worthy activity in and of itself. But if we teach children early to be compassionate towards animals, we can also help to reduce domestic violence and child abuse in the human community.
Misfits is not a complete rescue handbook, but it is quite a good introduction to the dog rescue world and a decent quick-reference for health issues as well.
I’m inspired by the fact that so many people said they’re looking forward to learning more about AWE. I hope that means you’re all also looking forward to discussing it, because our conversations are going be a major driving force in building the organization.
Snickers loves to KILL toys with noise boxes, but look what your dog could eat if you let them destuff unsupervised! Very dangerous if chewed or swallowed.