This Kittie Cutie Could Be Your Valentine
Each week Baltimore Fishbowl introduces you to a cuddly animal up for adoption at the Maryland SPCA. This week, Joplin is hoping to be your Valentine. Joplin is a baby American domestic short hair...
View ArticleMDSPCA Weekly Pet Adoption: Two Words, Fluff Fluff
As told to Vincent Jennings, MDSPCA adoption counselor “Hi everybody! If you are looking for the coolest cat around then I’m your guy. I’m a very affectionate and very very curious young cat looking...
View ArticleKitten Season is Near…Join BHS for a Kitten Shower
Kitten season — the time of year when cats give birth, flooding animal shelters with homeless litters — is coming. (The season is really three seasons in one: starting in spring, peaking in late...
View ArticleHandsome Men and Their Dogs
Dear Sara, I met a handsome man walking his handsome dog, and I only talked to the dog. This has happened before, too. What’s WRONG with me? Doggone Girl — First of all, I want you to memorize the...
View ArticleBaby Fox Rescued by Harford County Firefighters
All photos courtesy Joppa-Magnolia VFC / May 1, 2013 Once in a while Harford County Volunteer Firefighters get a frantic request from a resident whose cat is stuck up a tree or trapped in a gutter,...
View ArticleFour Llamas, 30 Cats, 16 Alpacas, and a Peacock: Ellicott City Farm Family...
“I may smell like pig!” Alison Martini Meyer tells me, laughing, when I’m moved to hug her goodbye after a visit to her vet clinic in Silver Spring. At her generous invitation, I’ve transported a sick...
View ArticleHelp Police Find the Terrible Person Who Shot This Cat with an Arrow
Ugh, this story makes my blood boil: earlier this week, a woman in Anne Arundel county noticed that the stray cat she’d been feeding over the past year had been shot with an arrow. Yes, you heard me...
View ArticleMD SPCA Weekly Pet Adoption: Katie the Beagle
Please say hello to… Katie, 1 year old, spayed female, 41 lbs., Beagle mix Hi everybody! If you’re looking for a sweet fun loving young hound, then I’m the girl for you. I totally love to take long...
View ArticleNational Aquarium’s New Animal Care and Rescue Center Coming to Jonestown
Artist rendering of the new facility, Courtesy National Aquarium The National Aquarium’s many marine dwellers in the Inner Harbor will soon have some new digs for when they need to go for a check-up....
View ArticleNational Aquarium Rescues 21 ‘Cold-Stunned’ Sea Turtles
Some of the rescued turtles, Courtesy National Aquarium Some more shelled critters are taking refuge at the National Aquarium. This time, many of them are of the endangered variety. And judging by...
View ArticleNational Aquarium Staff Rehabbing Harbor Seal Found Stranded in Delaware
Photo via National Aquarium A harbor seal that now goes by Phil is being nursed back to full health at the National Aquarium after being found stranded in a river in Delaware. Since April 11, Phil has...
View ArticlePhil the Rescued Harbor Seal is Starting to Feel Better
Photo via the National Aquarium Six weeks since he was first whisked away to Baltimore from a muddy stretch of an inland Delaware river, Phil the harbor seal is showing signs of improvement. That’s...
View ArticleNat’l Aquarium Rehabs Two Seals, Releases Them Back into Open Water
Luna’s release on Thursday. Photo via National Aquarium. Two seals that the National Aquarium staff helped rescue from harm’s way earlier this year are now happily swimming back in the open ocean. The...
View ArticleTito’s Handmade Vodka to the rescue…cat rescue, that is
Sometimes people need a little help showing their soft side, and occasionally that help comes in the form of…well…vodka. Show Your Soft Side (SYSS), a volunteer-based organization whose mission is to...
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