Mary Shepherd's Blog – November 2011 Archive (6)

This week chimps need your help - join with individuals and organizations across the country for National Call-In Week for Chimpanzees in Laboratories.

Please take five minutes to help chimpanzees who face more lab torture! 

The surviving chimpanzees of the Alamogordo Primate Facility are still waiting for their verdict – will the National Institutes of Health choose the humane, prudent path to permanently retire the chimps or force 54-year-old Flo and her colleagues…

This sweet guy was saved today from the Artesia Shelter thanks to Paws & Claws Humane Society and Dew Paws Rescue. He is 10 months old, very mature for his age, smart, trainable, loyal (I've known him for several hours and he is my BFF).  I picked him up in Clines Corners and I don't want to take him to…

Since my beautiful cat Smooshie disappeared I check the SFAS website every week hoping that she will turn up. Cats have turned up there years after disappearing!

There were 17 pages of cats on the Santa Fe Animal Shelter website last week. Now there are only 13 pages. And their satellite adoption center was closed due to one cat with ringworm - or tinea - which is a harmless fungus that causes only cosmetic problems.

Where did all the cats…