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Share/Save 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 [...]

Share/SaveThe Jersey City animal-welfare group Companion Animal Trust is kicking off its third year of free Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) training workshops this weekend in Downtown Jersey City. The workshops are designed to show local residents how to help animal advocates and authorities manage the massive feral cat population by stemming the tide of the cats’ reproduction. [...]

Share/SaveConfession: I am an utter and completely hopeless romantic. I read the Twilight series not once but twice (I can just hear the collective gasp and the loss of all of my credibility). At heart, I’m a girl who longs to be rescued. I want Prince Charming to come crashing in on his noble white [...]

Share/Save- Jersey City Democratic Organization: Hudson County Freeholder Jeff Dublin was voted in as chairman of the Jersey City Democratic Organization last night, defeating Joe Conte. Dublin was backed by state Sen. Sandra Cunningham and Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, while Conte was backed by Mayor Healy. – Bike Path & Light Rail to Staten [...]

Share/SaveStacie DaBolt, the shelter manager at Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society, left New Jersey yesterday to head to Joplin, Missouri, which is still recovering from May 22′s deadly tornado. DaBolt is there assisting with American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) rescue efforts. Hundreds of animals in the small Midwestern city were [...]

Share/SaveWith Mother’s Day just around the corner, Liberty Humane Society (LHS) is celebrating its own moms — the female cats who end up at the shelter — by trying to adopt as many of them out as possible in the next week. From May 7 until May 13, all female cats at LHS who are [...]

Share/SaveJersey City’s Liberty Humane Society has organized a “Pup Crawl” featuring five Hoboken bars that will raise funds for the animal shelter. Saturday’s event will include raffle drawings for bar gift cards as well as the usual pub crawl drink specials at each establishment. The crawl begins at 3 pm at Texas Arizona (76 River [...]

Share/SaveJersey City is once again offering free rabies shots for Jersey City dog and cat owners at four Pet Owner’s Days this May. The events also include the opportunity to purchase dog licenses from the Division of Animal Control. The law governing the licenses was revised by the city this year to include the choice [...]

Share/SaveJersey City’s John Dunstan, the filmmaker behind Secret Life of … My Small Urban Backyard who is known to many as an avid chronicler of the urban wildlife environment, has just sent us his latest short, titled Wild Jersey City. “The film shows hawks, vultures, an osprey, black skimmers and a couple of other species [...]

After successfully fending off a legal attempt to have its board of directors replaced with an independent overseer, Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society is firing back against the group of activists who brought the suit, demanding they cover the cost of the lawsuit and drop the “frivolous” lawsuit for good — or face further legal action.