Companion Animal Trust and Karma Cat + Zen Dog Rescue Society are bringing another “Kitten Bonanza” adoption event to the plaza in front of City Hall this weekend. The event focuses exclusively on finding good homes for homeless kittens, all of which are vaccinated and spayed or neutered. The adoption fee for a kitten is [...]
LITM and Not Yo Mama’s Affairs are teaming up for a November group show, Rescue Me!, that will raise funds for the animal rescue group See Spot Rescued, and they are currently looking for artist submissions. Here’s how LITM explains the show: For a nominal materials cost, each artist will receive a wooden frame/shadow box, [...]
- Post-Irene Aid: Hudson County’s welfare director says the potential for fraud is great in the Hurricane Irene-related one-time food benefit program. Meanwhile, long lines have many would-be aid seekers getting quite frustrated. – ‘Untitled Jersey City Project’: During last night’s Emmy Awards, FX premiered the first teaser for a new dramatic series, Untitled Jersey [...]
Companion Animal Trust is hosting a special “All Cats Must Go” adoption event this Sunday at Pershing Field in the Heights. The group’s adoption fees are being reduced to $60 from $100 and all cats are spayed or neutered and vaccinated. In addition, the first five adopters get a free lint roller. THE DETAILS All [...]
If your pet gets lost, Jersey City’s Animal Control Division says it can help you retrieve it, and quickly, with the newly rolled out “Fido/Feline Alert” system, which relies on other Jersey City pet owners to help find missing pets. When an owner loses a pet and provides the information or flier to Animal Control, [...]
- Irene: The storm is still dominating the news. Here’s the latest information that we haven’t already covered: As the death toll from Hurricane Irene climbed to seven in New Jersey and 40 across the Eastern Seaboard Tuesday, rain-engorged rivers inflicted fresh damage and hardship across the state, washing out highways and chasing thousands more [...]
After the outcry among Jersey City pet owners and animal advocates earlier today when they learned that Jersey City’s shelters would not accept pets, the city now says it will open one pet-friendly shelter in the Heights. The city’s Office of Emergency Management will open the Pershing Field Community Center (Summit Avenue and Pershing Plaza) [...]
Michelle Nirenberg was planning to help transport the animals being evacuated from Liberty Humane Society today because of the hurricane. In the end, she took four cats home herself. Nirenberg, who lives Downtown, will foster Han Solo and Pumpernickle for the weekend — and bring another two cats to stay with willing friends who live [...]
UPDATE, AUGUST 27 at 4:45 PM: Jersey City officials just announced that they will open a pet-friendly shelter today at 5 pm. Anyone hoping to take a pet to one of Jersey City’s six emergency shelters is out of luck, as the shelters are not accepting pets, unlike the shelters set up in Hoboken and [...]
Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society (LHS) is making preparations today to begin evacuating the animals at the shelter tomorrow in advance of Hurricane Irene’s arrival here Sunday. The shelter is looking for volunteers to help get the animals out of town safely. A shelter representative on Twitter promised more details later today, but so far [...]
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