Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the pets category.
About Animals
Cell Phones for Canines & Cats
Jon Mooallem writes in The New York Times Sunday Magazine (1.13.2008) about many things cell phone, including info on how animal groups can benefit from our olde cells.
Groups that receive a donation from a business called Collective Good for these used cell phones include the Humane Society of the United States. The site with turn-in info & directions for selecting an animal group & printing the prepaid envelope is www.collectivegood.com
I found animal groups in Texas, Florida, Colorado, New Jersey, California & other places listed at the site. When Collective Good receives the phones, it retools them for resale, or extracts metal from them if they can’t be repaired for reuse. A part of that value is what is collected for various causes, including animal rights.
The NYT magazine’s Mooallem (hope the author likes bovines, eh?) wrote that Collective Good owner Seth Heine receives 20,000 old cell phones a month. So penny by penny, it can add up. The name fits, Collective Good.
You may want to follow Mooallem’s byline. He’s written entertainingly & informatively for The Times Magazine about dog breeding (2.4.2007).
About animals
JET was a dog no shelter wanted.
But good news for JET.
His high energy level worked well in Fort Myers Florida at the Southwest Florida International Airport.
JET took classes in chasing wild birds away from areas at the airport where their activities might interfere with air traffic. The result is that he beame the first documented dog to go to work in that way at an airport. He appeared on Animal Planet’s K-9 to 5 show and on Wild Rescues.
JET trained his own replacement, RADAR. Associated Press reporter Julio Ochoa wrote about RADAR in a feature datelined Fort Myers, Fla 1.13.2008.
The story of JET & his airport handler, Rebecca Stansifer-Haggie is told in a chapter of FLORIDA’s FAMOUS ANIMALS, out in 2008 from Globe Pequot Press.
Another reason to give shelter animals another chance.
Good dog, JET! And go, RADAR!
