Spay Day is Tuesday, February 24, 2009, and is recognized across the United States and U.S. territories.
Spay Day USA is America’s first and only national day of action to promote the spaying or neutering of pets. During Spay Day USA, veterinarians and their staff, animal welfare professionals, business owners and citizens join forces nationwide to [...]

While millions of people tune in for the Superbowl this Sunday, there’s a growing movement of the gentler (and cuter) variety–The Puppy Bowl. Yes, it’s as adorable as it sounds.
Animal Planet has taken a silly idea and turned it into a winner. It all started in 2004, when Animal Planet’s first annual Puppy Bowl was [...]

Last summer, 9-year-old Calli Vanderaa found seven-week-old puppies in the garbage dumpster behind her house. In November, she wrote a letter to her local newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press, detailing her rescue efforts.
Here is the letter:
Dear Sir
My name is Calli Vanderaa.
I’m 9 years old and I live with my daddy.
One day we found a little puppy in [...]

While the new film Marely & Me may be hot at the box office, and surely it portrays puppies in all their glory, there’s a chance that it might be glamorizing puppies and encouraging dog lovers to get a pup without thinking things through.
That’s why the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior
(AVSAB) sent out a press release the [...]

An unconditional loving present will arrive in many households this year, but if you are thinking of giving a puppy as a gift for the holidays, you might be barking up the wrong tree.
The classic holiday image of a puppy in a room full of bright paper packages, bows and ribbons is a wonderful sight, [...]