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Life Is Precious
By Jenessa Taylor, Executive Director, Pets Alive Westchester As many of you know last week Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the Northeast – particularly coastal areas of New Jersey and much of New...
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Santa requests Pets Alive assistance once again!
SANTA CALLS UPON PETS ALIVE ELVES ONCE AGAIN Little Boys and Girls to be surprised with the Greatest Christmas Present Imaginable Today, Sunday, Dec 9, Santa made the long trek from the North Pole to...
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Port Jervis Humane Society –“Humane” Society or horror show?
There is a lot of information here, and I ask that you click on each link and read or listen to each attachment. The attachments and recordings here will do more to show what is going on, than anything...
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Open Letter to the Board of Directors of the Port Jervis Humane Society
Pets Alive is not looking for the Port Jervis Humane Society to close down. We are looking for a better level of care, commitment and compassion for the animals in your care. No animal shelter in the...
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Port Jervis Humane Society – rejects our offers to help save the lives of...
So since my last offer of help to the Port Jervis Humane Society they have rejected all. OK, ok, I was expecting that. It is hard to accept help from someone that just revealed ugly things about your...
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Who and What is Pets Alive?
Just who and what is Pets Alive? I discussed some of this in another blog but I think this would be good to explain fully in a separate blog, because we often get the same question or confusions. This...
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Jen’s Latest Update – Pets Alive Westchester
End of Year Update It’s so hard to believe that the year is coming to an end. We have seen our ups and downs, some really great moments and some rough times. Through it all YOU have all continued to...
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Goodbye my friend….R.I.P. Patrick Whitacre
Today at Pets Alive, we lost our canine behaviorist. Today I lost one of my closest friends. Today the dogs of the world lost an amazing advocate. I’ve started and stopped this blog a dozen times...
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Scotty
Blog by Jenessa Taylor, Executive Director Pets Alive Westchester People often ask why we don’t take in animals from the public, otherwise known as owner surrenders. This is not our primary objective...
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Cowboy’s Hope
Blog by Jenessa Taylor, Executive Director Pets Alive Westchester In rescue you learn early on to never plan out your day because inevitably you will never get to even the first item on your list....
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Working together with other organizations saves lives
Helping Hands and Paws: It all started out with a phone call, as it usually does. An elderly woman in the hospital and all her cats being thrown outside by a family member. Cats everywhere. In trees....
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Let’s Get This Cowboy Home!
By Jenessa Taylor, Executive Director Pets Alive Westchester We are so incredibly touched and grateful to all of you who have reached out to us in support of Cowboy. When Cowboy showed up on our...
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The Journey of Links
This blog is the first in a series that we will be writing about how to socialize and help an unsocial or frightened cat. Written by Becky Tegze the Pets Alive Cat Manager. Becky has years of...
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Links, Continued: Socks, Baby Food and a BIG SURPRISE!
Our story from last week continues, once again from Becky Tegze, Pets Alive Cat Manager… The hissing continues… our “broken” Links is still hissing but there is something just a little different –...
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PETA comes after Pets Alive…and loses.
OK, so this is funny. You all know about PETA by now, right? There are literally hundreds of websites that point out how many animals they kill, how they don’t believe that any pit bulls coming into a...
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Port Jervis Humane Society veterinarian writes scathing letter; cites illegal...
I’ve been sitting on this letter for a couple of weeks waiting to see where the chips would fall. I had hoped that by letting the Port Jervis Humane Society have some time, that positive change could...
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From Broken Spirits to Thriving Lives!
By Erin Small-Guilshan, Shelter Manager Pets Alive Westchester I have heard these words countless times by Pets Alive staff and volunteers, “This is why we do what we do”. We save lives. Give medical...
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Hidden In Plain Sight
By Joy Carson, Executive Director Pets Alive Puerto Rico Look closely at this photo that we took at a busy parking lot in Utuado. Less than one day old, this tiny baby lays on the pavement, waiting for...
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FREE adoptions? No fees? Isn’t that dangerous? – the answer will surprise you.
When I first heard about low or no cost adoption fees, I was completely and totally against the idea. I had heard rumors of some places doing this, and I just thought to myself that they were...
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Results are in – 214 animals find homes this weekend from Pets Alive via...
What a crazy weekend. In all my years of volunteering, or working at animal rescues, I have never seen anything like it. Ever. I think that was the feeling of all of the staff, volunteers, and yes,...
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