Taking good care of a pet is a wonderful experience for all -- and it makes the ultimate learning experience for children. Its so important for kids to understand things like responsibility and respect for all living creatures, both of which can be learned via pet ownership. As a precautionary reminder, when you decide to let your child adopt a cat or dog, make sure that they are old enough to take responsible ownership. They need to realize that a living creature is not something you can just play with and put up for the rest of the day. Archive for the ‘Fostering’ Category
What Children Can Learn From Pets
August 6th, 2010 — by Anna P.Taking good care of a pet is a wonderful experience for all -- and it makes the ultimate learning experience for children. Its so important for kids to understand things like responsibility and respect for all living creatures, both of which can be learned via pet ownership. As a precautionary reminder, when you decide to let your child adopt a cat or dog, make sure that they are old enough to take responsible ownership. They need to realize that a living creature is not something you can just play with and put up for the rest of the day. Speaking Out for Pit Bulls
March 2nd, 2010 — by Jane Wangersky
Pit bulls have a bad reputation, but is it deserved? A group of pit bull owners and advocates in Vancouver, Canada, says the breed has been misrepresented.HugABull Advocacy & Rescue Society works to help not only individual dogs, but the entire breed’s image. It also strives to build a community of responsible owners for dogs who often attract the wrong kind.
Many of us have the idea that pit bulls have been bred to be aggressive – and, though they can’t help it, they’re not the kind of dog you’d want to have around. News reports and breed-specific legislation, like
Why Pets Get into Foster Care
August 10th, 2009 — by Jane Wangersky
People who foster homeless animals have their own reasons for doing it, but why do the animals end up in foster care? We tend to think of them as strays or unwanted pets who turned up at a shelter that didn’t have room for them. And this is very common. However, there are lots of different reasons a pet may need a foster home:- Some animal rescue groups don’t have shelters anymore, or may never have had them. With enough foster homes, it isn’t always necessary to go to the trouble and expense of maintaining a shelter.
- Some pets are
Fostering Takes Love, Not Money
June 30th, 2009 — by Jane Wangersky
Maybe you’re not financially prepared to adopt a pet. But if that’s the only thing holding you back – if you have a love of animals, a sense of responsibility, enough room in your home, and enough time and energy -- maybe you’re ready to foster a pet.As Kim Croom, Director of the Pet Foster Network, said in an interview with RedPlum: “[Fostering] doesn't cost the foster home anything at all. Most people just don't know that."
Fostering is giving a pet a temporary home as an alternative to an animal shelter. This can last anywhere
Caring for the Troops’ Pets
June 16th, 2009 — by Jane Wangersky
What happens to a pet whose owner gets sent to war or is deployed overseas? One thing’s for sure, the animal is not going to be welcomed onto a military transport or allowed to run around in a combat zone, and that’s probably just as well.If a servicemember doesn’t have family or friends willing to take care of the pet for a year or so, re-homing is often the only option. This ensures a good future for the pet, but when the owner comes home (we hope), a part of his or her earlier life will be missing.
The Hawaiian Humane
