Pet Safety: One Simple Trick to Avoid Lost Animals

We talk a lot on our Facebook page about planning ahead, thinking proactively, and how to ensure safety is always a priority in our homes. The reality is that it takes just seconds for a dog or cat to slip past us - even when we're being careful - especially with visitors, small children, etc. Despite our best efforts, furry friends often manage to get loose, so today we're going to look at a simple way to prevent front door escapes.

Lost Pet Prevention: Window Safety

Happy first day of April! This week (April 1st - 6th), is National Window Safety Week, and while it was launched to help educate parents and prevent injuries to kids, we are broadening the observance to encourage safety for our friends with dogs, cats, even ferrets or pet rabbits.

Thank You Foster Pet Parents | My First Time Letting Go

You know what's weird? When you realize you've been saying something for a long time, thinking that you understood, but you didn't really quite get it. Then one day, a situation becomes personal and only then do you discover how much you didn't know at all. I've been telling other people for a while things like "that's so great you volunteer as a foster", or "gosh, it must be hard to let them go", but until today I don't think I ever realized what it was really like. I'm a permanent type of rescuer, as we've always gone to adopt our animals for life, to bring them into our home for good. We often find or end up with ones that need extra attention or special care, and for that reason they wind up being forever furry family members.

The Crisis of Unwanted Animals: Why are so many pets being given up or dumped?

I've been working with lost and found pets since 2011, and just wanted to let you know.....I have never seen things quite as bad as they are right now. Our area shelters and rescues are MAXED OUT - full to capacity with dumped and unwanted animals, and there is no facility, rescue, or organization large enough to house them all. It's very simple; if animals keep pouring in, some of the other ones are eventually going to be euthanized for lack of space, and even "no kill" facilities are going to be faced with hard choices because animals cannot be warehoused in overcrowded buildings forever (that's neither humane or fair to the animals).

Lost & Found Pet Resources for the Delmarva Peninsula

Directory of animal control facilities, shelters, and missing pet sites across the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes Delaware (three counties), eastern shore of Maryland (nine counties), and the eastern shore of Virginia (two counties).