I am trying to rally support for laws in Illinois to be changed. My brother got us a pet skunk for a wedding gift. What a strange thing, huh? If you didn't know, pen raised (not wild) domestic skunks actually make wonderful house pets. However, after contacting my vet to get all of the...

Has any one socalized one? What's your opinion about this?

Hi there, I new to this forum and really need some help with my cat. He is a 3 year old, male Tabby and he has been neutered. The problem is: I'm going to moving house on the 23rd Feb and I've done research on the net regarding house moving with cats but the cats they talk about are those that...

I live in southern Manitoba, Canada and there's a lot of farms out here. All the farms have cats to control the mice population, but the farmers don't do anything to control the cat population except..........kill the kittens. Somedays I just can't take it, those poor babies and the mother...

I think it's time to work off some of the Thanksgiving dinner with a good debate: This article is on the Houston Chronical News Site. What are your feelings on this? Before you decide, you might want to take into consideration that Galveston Island, because it is an island, iis one of the...

Not sure if I should put this here or in the venting section... today we went and donated a bunch of childrens clothes and toys to our local SPCA thrift store...so while we were there we decided to go in and see the animals...it was a huge mistake! First we went in and saw the large...

Ok, I was wondering how everyone else felt. I'm not talking about if the animal is in pain and suffering. I'm talking about the shelters that put animals down cause they haven't been adobted. I watched a documentary on HBO called Shelter Dogs. It was a very eye opening, touching and sad...

Hello fellow cat lovers! :wavey: Newbie here! I love all animals & as you can tell by my handle, I have 5 beautiful cats! They range in age from 6-11 years & are all mixed breeds. 4 girls/1 boy! I live in a rural area outside a large city. I have also trapped & neutered 4 feral cats...

Hello everybody, just found this forum yesterday,looks like a intresting place. I am norwegian but live in Mallorca Spain. My husband is german,and we have a son and a daughter. I have loved animals all my life, and at the moment we have several macaws, two ferrets, several half feral cats, an...

HERE IS THE ARTICLE Log on, add your comments, and then send e-mails, please, to the Connecticut Audubon Society and the National Audubon Society which CONDONES this slaughter! Not to mention the USDA which is killing them. :mad: >> Darien, CT — Friends of Animals, a leading voice for...

Mr. Jim Noodles has something metal stickong out of jis skin. It looks like part of a b.b.. This is very disappointing. He is not in any pain, its not red or swollen or pussy. He is going to the vet monday. I used to live in the mountains, I understand why mountain people shoot stray...

:yes: We have an official albino squirrel on my campus. He is pretty revered by all of the students and there are websites for him. :D He is said to bring good luck to test-takers (it is good luck to see him before you take your test). He's so super cute and I hung around him for about 30...

hello. :) does anybody know how long kittens stay together in the wild? i've found some that are about 5/6 months old and i am wondering if it is best to leave them alone for the winter if we can't catch them all (as i live in northeast usa). i know they will huddle together for warmth- they...

I felt that this would make an interesting debate. Why is it that when I saw a dog unattended, roaming around an estate, the first thing that people told me was to call the RSPCA? Most people find this unacceptable. They feel that dogs must always be supervised when away from their home, and...

In the San Benardino, Calif. area. Lose a pet? Find a pet? Want to adopt a pet? Giving up a pet? Can you foster a pet? send me a note, I can help spread the word. Specially interested in contacting people in this area that deal with feral cats.

http://www.dontshootthecat.com/ Firefighter seeks law legalizing hunting of stray cats Associated Press Mar. 7, 2005 10:26 AM MADISON, Wis. - Hunter Mark Smith welcomes wild birds on to his property, but if he sees a cat, he thinks the "invasive" animal should be considered fair game. The...

My female prairie dog has acted quite aggressively towards my cat. Before the cat had tried to enter their cage when the door was open and had been grabbed about the throat by an angry prairie dog. Last night, however, I let the prairie dogs out of their cage and the female grabbed onto the cats...

I rescured my cat last summer from the SPCA. He was 10 weeks when we got him and we were told he was neutered. (we even paid the extra fee for a neutered animal.) Well he is about 10 months old now and the other da when he was rolling around on his back I noticed his testicles have dropped...