Saturday, May 17, 2008

Faux posh

Under pressure from Last Chance for Animals and Best Friends, the Beverly Hills puppy boutique Posh Puppies appears ready to stop selling animals.

Saving Sidney

Days old, the abandoned kitten struggles for life by the roadside in Randolph, Iowa. Who will save her?

Racing Laps speeds to Indianapolis

It's not too late to pledge your support as the Best Friends number 5 car heads to Indy.

If you feed wild birds...

Experts say wild birds don’t really need us, but we enjoy feeding them all the same. Here are tips on doing it right.

Donkeys unite!

Sweetheart leads a team of Best Friends donkeys on a grand escape ... to about two feet away.

Meet animal lovers online, earn bucks for Best Friends

It's the new social networking site just for pet lovers. Create your free profile and AnimalAttraction.com will donate to Best Friends. Here's how it works.

Blind, Deaf, Diabetic ... No Problem!

A special couple gives a special dog a wonderful hospice home.

"Anybody bring a beach ball?"

Vicktory dogs meet swimming pools!

Sprocket the astronaut

This piggy explores strange new worlds!

Dreamers

Determined teens arrive at Best Friends!

Raising a Ruckus

A not-so-hot race horse is a champion at Best Friends!

Racing to the slaughterhouse

Best Friends trainer Ann Hepworth, to whom horses are “nature in its finest form,” says the racing industry treats them like Kleenex: “They use them up and throw them away.”

‘Innocence and delight’

It’s all sunshine and ants for the pair of pups who Best Friends helped bring to the U.S. from Iraq earlier this year after their caregiver died while stationed in Baghdad.

The life of Riley

Riley the horse travels from the Best Friends sanctuary to Wyoming, where she will lose part of her severely infected leg, but gain a renewed lease on life.

College graduate

Milk Mouth makes Best Friends Feline Finishing School proud.

Won't you be my neighbor?

Cupid moves next door to the Vicktory dogs.

Success in Georgia

Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law a tougher dog-fighting statute, which represents the collective work and cooperation of Best Friends and Georgia State Sen. Chip Rogers.

Fuzzy love

Once abandoned, this fluffy fellow finds a good home!

Thank you Oprah!

Members of the Best Friends Network are creating a token of their appreciation for Oprah, who recently brought the evils of puppy mills to the attention of millions.

Best Friends to manage relocation of California puppy mill rescues

Best Friends will assist Last Chance for Animals in placing puppies.

Pampered Pair

10 year-olds Georgie and Sammy are starting over ...together.

Letter from Angel Canyon: Hummingbirds

Best Friends writer Ted Brewer has sweet memories of hummingbirds, then and now.

Tag, she’s it

Celebrity chef and Emmy-nominated talk-show host Rachael Ray will feature Top Tag Pet IDs on her show this week. Best Friends, an exclusive partner of Top Tag, uses the IDs on the Vicktory dogs.

City of angels

Some 300 pets found new homes during the annual Best Friends Animal Society Spring Super Adoption Festival in Los Angeles.

A bid to help

eBay rewards Best Friends’ “commitment to making the world a better place” with a sizable grant and a fundraising campaign to help build a puppy care center at the sanctuary.