This alert looks at two terrific blogs, one posted today on the New York Times site, and one from last week, written by Bob Barker, and posted on CNN's Larry King Live site.
Today's New York Times City Room blog will be a pleasure all dog lovers, particularly pit-bull lovers, to read and view -- there is a lovely embedded video.
The piece, by Emily S. Rueb, is titled "Homelessness, Man’s Best Friend and a Hard Choice."
It opens with:
"Tony Aponte refers to his 45-pound pit bull, Rocky, as his child. But after losing his apartment and moving into a homeless shelter, he was at a loss over how to care for him."
It tells us how Pets For Life saved Rocky. That program is described as "a rescue program run by the Humane Society of the United States, which provides pet owners access to low-cost veterinary care, food, blankets and foster care."
The piece was posted as a segment for "New York on Less" which is "a new weekly City Room feature about coping with the recession." How wonderful to see this beautiful animal story as an early feature. Please check it out, and forward it (by clicking "email this" just under the story) to your dog loving friends; they will appreciate it and the writer will appreciate seeing that the piece got loads of forwards. And please take the time to post an appreciative comment underneath the story so that the editors of the new column know that readers will be delighted when the posts include issues to do with animals who are indeed, as the man covered in this story tells us, "part of the family."
The New York Times blog piece and video are on line at http://tinyurl.com/kmmrnb
Bob Barker's piece on the Larry King Live blog site is headed "Cherokee’s Unbearable Bear Pits."
It deals with the deplorable conditions in which some bears are being kept at a roadside zoo, and with Barker's efforts to persuade the chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, "to intervene in behalf of these beautiful animals." The piece might not only help these particularly bears: with a forum such as King's CNN blog it will do much to raise awareness about roadside zoos in general. Please read it at
http://tinyurl.com/lf4vxm and take a moment to comment. Your comments will be read by countless blog readers, and also by the Larry King Live producers who will see that coverage of this kind of topic is appreciated. I send thanks to Andrew Umphries for making sure we saw the blog.
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
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Date: Mon Aug 10 20:26:06 2009
