June 2010 Blog Posts (9)

When reading the blog of John Sibley today, I learned that he is no longer with Best Friends. He is the most recent in a line of strong animal welfare advocates to depart the organization. Other recent departures have included Michael Mountain, Founder and President, Paul Berry, Executive Director, and others. Continue

Animal Ark wants to thank Girl Scout Troop #12870 for all of their hard work building us a feral cat house!

This is what they had to say about their project:

"This service project was part of our Bronze Award for our Junior Girl Scout Troop. Most of us were ten years old when we started this project. We started by choosing the focus for the project - animals. Then a girl in our troop found Animal Ark on-line. It stood out to us because it is the largest no-kill shelter in Minnesota. We… Continue

Watching the Facebook page for Best Friends Animal Society is really sad. They used to be considered a leader in the no kill movement. After Michael Mountain and Paul Berry left, things are just not the same.

Look at that SWEET Smile.....no, Jasmine isn't back, however, since we were having computer issues at the shelter today we were not able to post a blog! So I thought I'd just drop a line from home and since I had Jazzy girl's photo here at home I thought I'd include it in my blog. I am sure there are many out there that will smile when they see her face! Sometimes it just takes longer to find the "right match" and this…

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5 year old Toby and his 2 year old brother Bennett from New Brighton, have learned at a very early age the importance of sharing with others. Every year they ask that instead of birthday presents from friends and family, that a donation be made to help homeless animals. They came with their mom to visit us at the shelter on Wednesday, and brought in dog biscuits and cash donations of over…

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On Sunday June 20th say “NO!” and “NOT MY DOLLARS!” to puppy and kitty

mills by joining a demonstration outside the Petland in Saint Paul, located at 2123 Hudson Rd in Saint Paul.



From 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. come hold a sign and ask shoppers to boycott

Petland until the business stops supporting kitten and puppy mills.



In other states similar peaceful store protests have been successful by

educating consumers about the cruel breeding practice and… Continue

A big thanks to all the great people(vets, techs, groomers, scrubbers, registerers, animal care people, cooks,transporters ) from Ark, Akin, and metro support team for all the work they did at the Red Lake clinic. We appreciate your commitment to improve the state of the animals here and to continue an aggressive neuter/spay program which is making a positive effect on the reservation. Mee-gwitch!! RLRR Board of Directors

Bow wow.....meet 3 cute little Papillons....Baby, Gizmo & Ricky! They are all looking for new homes. Their family lost their home so that is why they ended up at the shelter. They need to be spayed/neutered & brought up to date on vacines before they can leave the shelter. They do not have to be adopted together & probably would do better in…

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If you haven't met these two yet, you really should! They are Manny & Margie and they are two of the sweetest Basset Hounds that I have ever met! The two of them were "hanging out" in the office today. They are so comical and entertaining! We really need to adopt these two together as they really feed off of each other, kind of like Martin & Lewis, Cheech & Chong or even…

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