PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG, SHARE ON FACEBOOK, AND/OR DONATE IF YOU CAN! EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS! You can donate here: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/help-the-shopping-cart-kitties-/60693
THANK YOU! XOXOXOXIt was around this time last year that we received the disturbing call from someone who had found 5 tiny kittens inside two plastic bags, in a dumpster. (http://bit.ly/18aIPPj)
Imagine our surprise and heartbreak when we received a very similar call last weekend, the day before Mother’s Day. Someone noticed that a plastic bag in a grocery cart outside of a big-box store kept undulating, long after the wind stopped blowing it around. Upon investigation, they found six tiny kittens fighting for their lives inside the bag. Sadly, it was too late for one of the babies. But these five darlings made it into our loving care just in time for us to start them on the long path to recovery.
The night of the kittens’ rescue, little Elsie’s health plummeted. Her body temperature and blood sugar hit alarming lows. She was rushed to the ER where, over the course of 24 hours, she was stabilized. Now, she eats like a champ and has plenty of energy.
Gus, Karen, and Bianca are doing well overall, but the prognosis for Bianca & Karen’s affected eyes is unknown at this time.
Sweet little Lars has quite an uphill battle ahead. Though his general health is stable and his appetite is voracious, his badly infected eyes are clearly in need of intensive care. He is on the strongest, yet safest, medication we can provide for him, and our veterinarians are watching his progress closely.
Please consider helping us cover the costs of their medical care, as these babies work to recover from the trauma they have suffered.
Can’t afford to give? Please SHARE their story. We want to put an end to cruelty and neglect like they have endured.
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Off topic for this blog, but is anyone in maryland willing to take in a cat? He’s 8 months old and still.needs to be fixed + his first round of shots, his name is tali’zorah he responds to Tali, he’s one of the sweetest, cuddly cats I have ever known. He’s litter box trained and he gets along with small dogs and children. I’m not sure about other cats. If interested you can.contact me here or at loudblackram
hey, so master adept and I are moving and we can’t take tali with us, I’m still searching for a no kill shelter or a cat rescue to take him, but at this point I’m getting desperate. Please help.Disregard that note, tali’zorah still needs a home.
Someone please take the baby :(
Please, please help my baby.
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Keep an eye out for turtles!!!
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* pictured is Eastern Box Turtle (T. carolina)
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The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals in their shelters.
It takes less than a minute (only about 15 seconds actually) to go to their site and click on the purple box titled, ‘Click Here to Give - it’s FREE!’. Every click gives about .6 bowls of food to sheltered dogs. You can also click daily!
Keep in mind that this does not cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. [via.]
Go to the website here.
doesn’t cost you a cent, just a click.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbg3bbnAjr1qzpvhao1_500.jpg)
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals in their shelters.
It takes less than a minute (only about 15 seconds actually) to go to their site and click on the purple box titled, ‘Click Here to Give - it’s FREE!’. Every click gives about .6 bowls of food to sheltered dogs. You can also click daily!
Keep in mind that this does not cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. [via.]
Go to the website here.
doesn’t cost you a cent, just a click.
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Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong
By Lauren Davis
The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack informs both our fiction and is how many people understand wolf behavior. But the alpha wolf doesn’t exist—at least not in the wild…
Although the notions of “alpha wolf” and “alpha dog” seem thoroughly ingrained in our language, the idea of the alpha comes from Rudolph Schenkel, an animal behaviorist who, in 1947, published the then-groundbreaking paper “Expressions Studies on Wolves.” During the 1930s and 1940s, Schenkel studied captive wolves in Switzerland’s Zoo Basel, attempting to identify a “sociology of the wolf.”
In his research, Schenkel identified two primary wolves in a pack: a male “lead wolf” and a female “bitch.” He described them as “first in the pack group.” He also noted “violent rivalries” between individual members of the packs… Thus, the alpha wolf was born. Throughout his paper, Schenkel also draws frequent parallels between wolves and domestic dogs, often following his conclusions with anecdotes about our household canines. The implication is clear: wolves live in packs in which individual members vie for dominance and dogs, their domestic brethren, must be very similar indeed.
A key problem with Schenkel’s wolf studies is that, while they represented the first close study of wolves, they didn’t involve any study of wolves in the wild… In more recent years, animal behaviorists, including [wildlife biologist L. David] Mech, have spent more and more time studying wolves in the wild, and the behaviors they have observed has been different from those observed by Schenkel and other watchers of zoo-bound wolves. In 1999, Mech’s paper “Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs” was published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology. The paper is considered by many to be a turning point in understanding the structure of wolf packs…
Mech’s studies of wild wolves have found that wolves live in families: two parents along with their younger cubs. Wolves do not have an innate sense of rank; they are not born leaders or born followers. The “alphas” are simply what we would call in any other social group “parents.” The offspring follow the parents as naturally as they would in any other species. No one has “won” a role as leader of the pack; the parents may assert dominance over the offspring by virtue of being the parents. While the captive wolf studies saw unrelated adults living together in captivity, related, rather than unrelated, wolves travel together in the wild. Younger wolves do not overthrow the “alpha” to become the leader of the pack; as wolf pups grow older, they are dispersed from their parents’ packs, pair off with other dispersed wolves, have pups, and thus form packs of their owns.
This doesn’t mean that wolves don’t display social dominance, however… Wolves (and other animals, including humans), display social dominance, it just isn’t always easy to boil dominant behavior down to simple explanations. Dominant behavior and dominance relationships can be highly situational, and can vary greatly from individual to individual even within the same species. It’s not the entire concept of wolves displaying social dominance that was dispelled, just the simple hierarchical pack structure…
Source: io9.comImages credit: Caninest - Michael Cummings
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brand yourself asshole
Good.
Good for you, horse!
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This sweet girl was dropped off at my Dad’s work today, she is about 9months old based on her teeth and development. She will probably be a 35-40lb dog when fully grown and nourished. She has been very clearly abused, she’s covered in cuts and scrapes and a case of mange that needs to be treated. We cannot take her on, we have two dogs her size already and this house just can’t support her. She is a sweet dog who responds well to attention and just wants a little bit of love. If you or anyone you know is willing to help out this sweet girl in the Wichita, Kansas area, please contact me immediately so we can get her somewhere safe.
Even if you can’t help, please reblog and signal boost this sweet baby girl.
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slutrockerbitch replied to your post: Ugh, I hate all the complete bullshit they teach…
my vet recommends royal canin food& since I switched my shepherd X to NRG grainless shes been so much happier, healthier, and more energetic
Yeah, like I said, I definitely wouldn’t ever go to a vet for a food recommendation. Grain-free is great, dogs and cats have absolutely no need for grains in their diet. I’m glad to hear your dog is doing well on it. :)
