How could they? Dozen sad puppies found in recycling bin after cruel owner 'throws them out like rubbish'

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Saved: The abandoned puppies were dumped on the roadside in a recycling bin and left to die

A dozen innocent puppies were 'thrown out like the rubbish' by a cruel owner who piled them into a recycling bin and left them to die.

The five-week-old Staffordshire Bull Terriers were dumped on the roadside just outside the Welsh city of Swansea and left out overnight just like any other waste.

These puppies spent the night in the plastic crate usually reserved for glass, paper and plastic, but luckily they were too weak to climb out and wander into the traffic.


Recycled: The puppies are safe and well, but their cruel owner left them too weak to even get out of the box


The next morning they were found by passers-by and then taken to an animal rescue centre just half-a-mile away.

Animal shelter manager Laura Simpson said: 'They were in a bad way after being packed into the bin like sardines.

'It is staggering that someone could just put them out like the rubbish.

'We have treated them with emergency fluids and antibiotics - all 12 have bounced back.'


Happy and healthy: The rescue centre that nursed them says as soon as they are strong enough a new caring home will be found for the 12 puppies


Vets had their work cut out - tending the 12 Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross pups one-by one.

They had been ill-treated from birth, were badly dehydrated and in need of some tender loving care.

Police are investigating the doggy discovery on the roadside at Penllergaer, near Swansea.

But staff at the Llys Nini Animal Rescue centre in the city say all 12 will survive - and they will be free to good homes once their strength has built up.

source: dailymail

I'm no crazy cat lady... insists the California animal lover who lives with 700 felines

By Daily Mail Reporter


Lynea Lattanzio, of Parlier, California, lives with over 700 felines.

But she insists she's no crazy cat lady.

On the contrary, Ms Lattanzio, the star of a new Nat Geo documentary, runs Cat House on the Kings - a '12-acre no-cage, no-kill cat refuge' where she takes in strays, offers low-cost spaying and neutering referrals and facilitates pet adoptions.

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Pioneering: The Cat House on the Kings in Parlier, California is the largest no-kill cat sanctuary in the world

Feeding time: Lynea Lattanzio, owner of The Cat House on the Kings, begins feeding her hundreds of felines early each morning


The show, titled The Lady with 700 Cats, is narrated by Glee actress Jane Lynch as part of the Nat Geo WILD series premiering later this month.

The programme opens with the backstory of The Cat House, founded by Ms Lattanzio just outside of Fresno.

Ms Lattanzio, who said her mother banned her from having a cat as a child, said she began taking rescues after a divorce.

Now, she takes in rescues from all over the world, and estimates she has saved close to 19,000 felines in almost two decades.

Loving: Ms Lattanzio and volunteer Tammy Barker examine a stray Siamese cat at the SPCA

Just a few: A 'small' group of cats gathers at The Cat House on the Kings

Litter overload: Litter boxes fill a room inside the cat sanctuary


She said often cats are flown in from New York, after owners decide their apartments are too small for their pets. Sometimes, locals drop unwanted kittens right on her doorstep.

Her sanctuary, which employees 25 workers, is an around-the-clock operation, and the largest of its kind in the world.

A nursery, an intensive care unit and even a retirement home for elderly cats are housed in its walls, where endless meows echo throughout the day.

'If I were a cat, this is where I'd be. We're a no-cage, no-kill adoption sanctuary,' she explained.

Well, hello: One of the over 700 residents of the Cat House on the Kings no-kill sanctuary, nestled in his favourite resting spot - the cupboard

Rescued: In the back of Lynea Lattanzio's van, crates of rescued animals await their new life at the Cat House on the Kings sanctuary

Big world: Just a few of the hundreds of stray kittens and cats rescued by the Cat House team


And as if hundreds of cats were not enough to look after, Ms Lattanzio also has about 15 dogs, which can be seen running around the property in a video trailer.

She says, however, this is just the start.

Ms Lattanzio, who promotes the sanctuary online on Facebook, PetFinder and YouTube.com, expects the series to increase traffic at the refuge. And she has no intention of turning many animals away.

After 19 years working to build the California sanctuary, she is content caring for her hundreds of strays - even if outsiders to call her the crazy cat lady.

'I'm not crazy, what I do is crazy,' she said.

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My "Pet" Peeve

Don't get me wrong.  I'm going to mention three books that I liked.  But, I have an issue with their book covers.  And, it's a "Pet" peeve.

Why don't cover artists use the description of the animal in the book when they illustrate the cover?  When animals are important enough in the book to be described in detail, I think the cover art should match the description of the animal.  Here are three examples in which the cover art was just wrong.  It was so wrong, that I noticed it when I read the book.  Am I the only one bothered by the wrong art work to illustrate a pet?

So, here's the one I read most recently.  And, I love the book cover.  It's a beautiful cover with books and a cat.  I've said before, I think Penguin (USA) and Berkley Prime Crime have some of the best mystery covers.  But, that cat on Miranda James'  Murder Past Due is NOT Diesel.  Diesel is described as "A gray tabby with dark markings."  Does that look like a gray tabby with dark markings to you?  And, Diesel is one of the two most important characters in this book!






Example two is from a book I loved, The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal.  I booktalked this book after reading it.  Let me tell you, those of us who like dogs just said that cover is wrong.  Alvin is a "Two-year-old rescue mutt, a fluffy chow-Lab mix with a head like a Saint Bernard."  And, he has a "silky red head," had arrived as "a fluffy ball of red fur."  He now has a "red-gold mane."  Red, people, red!

I'm reading Louise Shaffer's Looking for a Love Story now.   I like this cover.  The woman's hair is a pretty good match with Francesca's description, "red-brown hair that has a tendency to frizz."  See that red dog on the cover?  (Almost matches the description of Alvin from the previous book, doesn't it?)  Francesca's dog is Annie.  "Annie was a rescue, so her ancestry has always been a mystery; it's clear that several large breeds were involved in her family tree, and at least a few of them were mega-shedders.  Coal-black mega-shedders.  We had to dump the decorator's favorite white rug after only a couple of weeks because of Annie."  Uh huh.  A big coal-black dog.


I don't even consider myself a visual person.  But, for some reason, book covers with the wrong animal on it bug me.  All three of these are attractive covers.  But, I do have a "pet" peeve.  I wish they had the pet right on those covers.