The Elderbulls Blog came out with a fun post last week. It highlights several first-ever dog-related milestones set on the east coast over the last 30 days, and includes Cleveland’s big firsts among others. Firsts!
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Early this week, Pittsburg Mayor Will Casey presented BR with a lovely declaration thing-y (what are these called?), acknowledging our work. It was an honor, of course. But in return, we have to acknowledge the City of Pittsburg’s decision to embrace non-discriminatory dog owner support work. A humane approach can bring immediate change to communities that struggle with dog-related challenges, and without alienating dog owners or causing them to hide their pets away. More info on this approach: here.
Cheering on Cleveland, Ohio for dismantling your breed specific legislation today. With special thanks to Dog Warden John Baird for working so hard to make this real. News Link
We enjoyed a rather historic moment last night, in the comfort of a cozy bookstore in Berkeley. It was a the first public event to discuss ‘Saving Audie.’ The good folks of Books Inc. set up a couple dozen chairs for the kids that would file in, and elementary school teacher Charity Jara (who wrote the book lessons plans) was prepared to navigate their squirmy, happy voices. Read the rest of this entry »
So much info, so many ways to post it around.
Blogs, website, e-alerts, facebook and more blogs. Eek! We’re currently working to re-do BR’s website – affectionately known as the mothership – but while we organize ourselves around the many pieces of this work, we’re doing a little housecleaning here and have added fancy new tabs (above) to help reader access info more easily. Cool, huh?
This coming Sunday, June 5 at 5pm, parents can bring their children to meet “Audie” and his adopter at Books Inc. in Berkeley info here
This coming Sunday, June 5 at 5pm, parents can bring their children to meet “Audie” and his adopter at Books Inc. in Berkeley info here
Don’t let the unassuming look on this dog’s face fool you. She’s a history maker, even if she’s still trying to sort out the difference between leather shoes and chew toys. ‘Joliette’ was recently selected to be the first ambassador for pit bull type dogs in the adoption wards of the Cleveland Animal Protective League, the largest humane organization in the state of Ohio. She found a quick home last week, which brought an end to the decades-long ban on pit bull adoptions from this influential shelter. Her departure opened a kennel to another square headed dog, and signals a change as welcome as the spring temperatures. The pup doesn’t seem to understand why people from California to New York were dabbing their eyes up when news hit that she’d gone home … Political milestones are such human inventions. Welcome to warm laps, tug toys and a lifetime’s worth of family photos, little darling. And thank you CAPL for getting her there.
There was some chat on the Net today about a Today Show piece that highlighted a program to end dog fighting. The report was peppered with formula clips of dogs engaged in bloody battles mixed in with young black guys who’ve changed their ways. It was a schizophrenic five minutes as far as the dogs were concerned: dogs acting scary, dogs climbing agility equipment, more dogs acting scary, finished with a cute dog who wowed the show hosts with cute tricks.
It’s time for another Open House during our Pit Ed classes. Come on down this Saturday May 14, and bring your friends.