As Jersey City prepares for Hurricane Irene, city officials say they are ready to take care of the city’s at-risk animals as well as its humans. The city’s Animal Control division will, if necessary, have access to the Jersey City Office of Emergency Management’s Mobile Animal Rescue trailer to help evacuate residents’ pets, as well [...]
- Fulop, Stack & the HCDO: Sources tell Politicker that the Hudson County Democratic Organization wants to gently offload Mayor Jerramiah Healy in 2013, but worries that state Sen. Brian Stack might be wooing Ward E councilman Fulop, who could possibly get the backing of the organization in his run for mayor in 2013. – [...]
After a successful first day last month, the third annual Kitten Bonanza adoption event’s second day is scheduled to take place this Sunday at City Hall. The event, sponsored by Companion Animal Trust and Karma Cat & Zen Dog Rescue Society, is designed to coincide with the tail end of “kitten season,” the spring and [...]
Jersey City animal-welfare organizations have mixed opinions about a controversial state bill that was recently called “terrible” by the Animal Protection League of New Jersey (APL). The proposal would create a two-year pilot program that would, among other things, change the current mandatory seven-day holding requirement for animals brought into a shelter. It has already [...]
Liberty Humane Society on Monday will kick off a monthlong promotion, “Back in Black,” in concert with the nationwide campaign being supported by Best Friends Animal Society. Through September 17, all black dogs and cats at the Jersey City shelter will be offered with a 50 percent discount on adoption fees, with fees for cats [...]
- $ for Affordable Housing: A grant from New Jersey Department of Community Affairs will provide Jersey City with $1.7 million to create affordable housing units intended to stabilize neighborhoods hard hit by home foreclosures. – JC Firm Lays Off 6% Off Staff: Jersey City-based Knight Capital Group has eliminated about 6 percent of its [...]
When I was a kid, I heard somewhere that the original name for creatures of the papilio family was not “butterfly,” but “flutterby.” They were named for the way they moved, but somehow the name got switched around. One story says an inventor created a flying machine which he called The Flutterby, and once he [...]
Hudson County Animal Response Team member Niki Dawson, Hudson County Office of Emergency Management’s Jack Burns and Hudson County Animal Response Team member Joan Maciewicz in front of the new trailer. The New Jersey Department of Agriculture today awarded a 20-foot animal evacuation trailer to Hudson County and two other New Jersey counties. The trailer, [...]
The third annual Kitten Bonanza adoption event returns to Jersey City this Sunday, July 24 for the first of two summer dates (the second is Sunday, August 21). The event, sponsored by Companion Animal Trust and Karma Cat & Zen Dog Rescue Society, is designed to coincide with the tail end of “kitten season,” the [...]
Liberty Humane Society (LHS) is joining animal welfare groups across the nation to celebrate PetFinder.com’s 15th anniversary next weekend. The Jersey City shelter is hosting an adoption birthday party on Saturday, July 16, featuring cut-rate adoption fees: $15 for cats and kittens, and $50 for dogs. The promotion is part of a nationwide campaign to [...]
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