Critter Corner
Earthquakes and Hurricanes
In a one-week period we experienced both an earthquake and a hurricane. Thankfully the effects of both of these natural disasters passed us by relatively unscathed. However, wishing on luck to avoid the inevitable is a dangerous proposition that may eventually leave us in a precarious position. This weekend I was able to travel to [...]
Euthanasia
One of my favorite books is The Hiding Place, a true story by Corrie ten Boom. Corrie and her sister were older single women who, along with their elderly father, helped shelter Jews from the horrific atrocities in World War II Germany. They were eventually imprisoned and both the sister and the father died in [...]
Moral Progress
This past Tuesday, someone placed a tiny kitten, about three weeks old, in a box and placed the box in front of a business on Riverside Drive. They had put food and water in the box, but she was too young to be able to eat that food. When employees arrived at work that day, [...]
Turkey
Last week, we received a call from the emergency dispatch center in Danville about a turkey that had fallen from a truck while being transported a slaughterhouse. You probably are familiar with those trucks; even people who eat meat usually do not like to look at the chickens, turkeys, or pigs that are crammed into [...]
Getting Along
April Hogan, the shelter manager, currently has four dogs she adopted from the shelter. There is Opie the long-haired dachshund, Trixie the spitz, Peppy the Chihuahua, and Barney the dachshund. All of her dogs play with each other and generally get along quite well. They spend many days in the front office of the shelter [...]
Turtle
A local eatery business was recently given a turtle by one of their customers for their beautiful water display in the lobby. Thankfully, it did not take long for this to come to our attention; a young boy was very disturbed when he saw the turtle hiding in the shell, and he began to wonder [...]
News Release
Urgent! Action Needed Immediately
There are some very bad bills for animals that have been introduced, but only two need your attention now. Senate Bill 610 This bill adds hunting dogs, working dogs and show dogs to the definition of agricultural animals and removes them from the definition of companion animals. It also allows the owner of these 3 [...]
Abandoned Rat Terrier – Reward!
The Danville Area Humane Society now must also offer a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who tied a young, male rat terrier mix in an abandoned house, and then failed to provide adequate care. The Inspections Department called the Police Department to [...]
Reward! Comcast Kittens
The Danville Area Humane Society is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who placed six newborn kittens in a plastic box, latched it, and placed it in the back of a Comcast service truck. At 2:00 this afternoon, a Comcast serviceman [...]
Reward for Cruelty to Animals
The Danville Area Humane Society is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for cruelty to a cat. About midnight last night, the police were called to the 700 block of North Main Street about several young men who were throwing [...]
