Say no to a Great Dane and I don’t mean Hamlet!

While “to be or not to be” ranks as a great philosophical question for the ages – in my world, it is always answered “to be” by unscrupulous breeders and puppy mills. These opportunists are…

Not Everyone With Too Many Pets is a Hoarder.

Not everyone with too many pets is a hoarder. Recently we have been asked to assist two elderly citizens whose raison d’etre was to care for neighborhood pets but felt they could no longer do…

Stop rescission of import ban on frogs & turtles – make some noise!

The Fish & Game Commission, after a decade of asking, finally banned the importation of millions of live frogs and turtles for sale in live animal markets. Notwithstanding the animal cruelty issues, these non-native species find…

Shame on LA City

I can’t help thinking that it has become a trend to focus us on the evils of Wall Street so we don’t see the overspending, mismanagement and the wasting of assets brought about by our…

spcas – Stand Up And Light!

Just a thank you to spcaLA’s  individual and corporate constituents, particularly Pacific Park, Lax and the Coliseum for their “Go Blue for spcaLA” light support and celebrations.

What to with the US Supreme Court Animal Cruelty decision

The Supreme Court in U.S. v. Stevens struck down a federal statute that would criminalize certain depictions of animal cruelty. The genesis of this law was to prevent the distribution of crush videos, a genre…

Amazon Kindle Needs to Grow a Pair!

As an extremely busy CEO who loves to read but has precious little down time, I use technology to help. Though a devout paper lover – the smell of a newly opened hard covered book…

Just Say No to the Circus

This week a circus trainer in Pennsylvania was killed by an elephant. Another avoidable tragedy. In response to this news, my twitter friend, DrBuzziBoomBatz in essence said to leave the creatures alone and ban all…

I Finally Met a Donation I Didn’t Want

A friend called me dumbfounded. She was speaking to a person who was planning a vacation, could not find a sitter for the family cats, and did not want to spend the funds to board…