Dallas Animal Services to waive adoption fees this weekend

May 18, 2013
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Dallas Animal Services to waive adoption fees this weekend

It’s spring in Texas and Dallas Animal Services (DAS) is bursting at the seams. DAS has taken in more than 100 pets of varying ages each day this week, and will continue to do so through the summer months. Thus, the department is asking for the community’s support. “To save as many animals as possible, DAS will waive adoption fees this weekend for all dogs, cats, puppies and kittens that have been at the Adoption Center for 14 days or more,” said DAS Manager Jody Jones.  Each adoption includes spay or neuter surgery, appropriate vaccinations and microchip – a $200 value. The offer is good until 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19. If the pet has been here less than 14 days, the adoption fee for dogs over 30 pounds and cats over 6 months of age is $30. Cate McManus, DAS Operations Manager, urged people to try to find...

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Help Build the First Veterinary Hospital for Homeless Animals; Join Mazie’s Mission for the 2nd Annual Disco InFURno Gala

May 2, 2013
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Help Build the First Veterinary Hospital for Homeless Animals;  Join Mazie’s Mission for the 2nd Annual Disco InFURno Gala

Mazie’s Mission, a Frisco-based animal rescue agency, will hold their 2nd annual BARC Gala on Friday, May 17,  from 7-11 pm at the Frisco Embassy Suites. BARC stands for Build A Rescue Clinic, a capital campaign to raise funds to build the first ever...

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Dallas Companion Animal Project: Crossroads Community Outreach Needs Pet Food

April 3, 2013
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Dallas Companion Animal Project: Crossroads Community Outreach Needs Pet Food

Pet Owner Outreach is an important component of the Dallas Companion Animal Project’s plan to make Dallas a No Kill Community.  Helping pet owners with limited financial means find and utilize available resources to better care for their pets means keeping those pets in...

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Moving toward a humane community will require more pet friendly landlords

March 29, 2013
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Moving toward a humane community will require more pet friendly landlords

What’s one of the things shelters and rescuers hear all too often? I’m moving and I can’t take my pet. Pease help me find a home for it. Why? Because so many apartment complex owners simply don’t allow pets, or if they do, they...

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ASPCA, HSNT and DAS assist FBI and US Attorney’s office in federal dog fighting raid

March 28, 2013
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ASPCA, HSNT and DAS assist FBI and US Attorney’s office in federal dog fighting raid

At the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the United States Attorney’s Office, the ASPCA assisted in a multi-state, federal dog fighting raid in Missouri, Kansas and Texas this past weekend. The ASPCA managed the removal and...

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Your action is needed to keep Texas House from gutting the Dangerous Wild Animal Act

March 27, 2013
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Your action is needed to keep Texas House from gutting the Dangerous Wild Animal Act

The Dangerous Wild Animal Act (DWAA), passed in 2001 with the support of the Texas Humane Legislation Network, requires the owner of a dangerous wild animal (a lion, a tiger, cougar, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, bear, coyote, hyena, jackal, baboon, gorilla, etc.) to register the...

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Humane Society of Flower Mound’s “Love on Wheels” transport program sends dogs to new homes in New York

March 26, 2013
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On March 4, 2013, the Humane Society of Flower Mound (HSFM) put three dogs on a truck bound for Dewitt, NY.  It was the beginning of an innovative new program that will send dogs to partner organizations in other parts of the United States...

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