The Pet Page
A FETCHING AFFAIR to benefit
GOOD DOG FOUNDATION
Thurs May 30 at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers
6:30pm
Call 1-888-859-9992
**I'll be your host!!**
ALL NATURAL PET EVENT
Sat June 1st
10:30am-4pm Rain or Shine
Ramapo College-Bandshell Area
505 Ramapo Valley Rd in Mahwah
North Shore Animal League Adoptathon
Sat June 1 & Sun June 2
Over 700 animals up for adoption!
**I'll be there Sunday 6/2!!**
HSUS has a HOTLINE if you need help:
If you know someone in the New York City area who needs assistance caring for or keeping their pets, call the Pets for Life NYC hotline at 917-468-2938.
Mt Pleasant Animal Shelter's
SPECIAL COMPANIONS PROGRAM is a match service
to pair homeless animals w/adopters!
Call 973-386-0590
Yorkies are great little dogs, especially if you live in an apt!
Check out Yorkie rescue.
YORKIE911RESCUE
This is a randomly chosen, currently adoptable pet. If you are interested, click on the image.
Do you have a special furry friend you want to show off? Submit your pet's photo and earn Work Perks points!
- Approximately 5 million to 7 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year, and approximately 3 million to 4 million are euthanized.
- Twenty-five percent of dogs who enter local shelters are purebred. (Source: NCPPSP)
- Only 10 percent of the animals received by shelters have been spayed or neutered. About 75 percent of owned pets are neutered.
- The majority of pets are obtained from acquaintances and family members. About 15 to 20 percent of dogs are purchased from breeders, and 10 to 20 percent of cats and dogs are adopted from shelters and rescues. (Source: Ralston Purina and NCPPSP)
- More than 20 percent of people who leave dogs in shelters adopted them from a shelter. (Source: NCPPSP)
- Five out of ten dogs in shelters and seven out of ten cats in shelters are destroyed simply because there is no one to adopt them.
Source: ASPCA.org
