September is Puppy Mill Awareness Month. In all of the years that Bailing Out Benji (BoB) has been exposing the puppy mill industry and its connection to pet stores, it has come across several myths that cause confusion. These myths are ones that Mindi and the folks at BoB have heard time and time again, […]
Joining Forces…Saving Lives (JFSL) is an animal advocacy group created in 2012 with the goal of bringing area humane organizations together and provide momentum to help save more animals in Lincoln and the surrounding area. As a group, JFSL is striving to reach a goal of making Lincoln a No Kill Community. A community must […]
Joining Forces…Saving Lives is an organization in Lincoln that aims to bring the city into a no-kill zone, meaning 90 percent of animals that enter shelters are released safe and sound. We’ve recently featured the group and you can read its story here. What’s more, the group has recently received a $5,000 grant from Maddie’s […]
Almost 80 million households in the United States own a pet. Animals are clearly important to people. Why then do we allow millions of them to be killed annually in our shelters? Trying to save them all can feel overwhelming but we can still all do something. Fostering and/or adopting is a great start, but […]
Dogs have it good (for the most part) in the U.S., especially in relation to much of the rest of the world. One place dogs aren’t as treasured is Nepal. Project Humane Nepal is an educational organization formed by the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s own Angeela Shrestha and aims to change the treatment of animals in […]
On April 23, 2017, Nebraska’s chapter of Bailing Out Benji was joined by a number of rescues and dozens of people to protest Tully’s Kennels and Pets R Us in Omaha. These two stores are the only pet stores in Omaha that sell puppies and purport to get them (for hundreds, if not over a […]
Tina Nelson had a life-changing experience in 2014; a little Chihuahua, Harley, who had lived in a puppy mill for a decade, was then (and now still) the new face symbolizing the terror that is commercial dog breeding, called her to spread education and awareness concerning mills. Three years later, she’s volunteering on behalf of […]
As Omaha’s Tully’s Kenn. els and Pets R Us stores expect to see dozens of people looking to buy puppies today, they’ll be seeing dozens of peaceful protesters outside their doors instead. Volunteers from Nebraska’s Bailing Out Benji chapter are educating the public on where it says the doggies in the windows come from. This […]
In the latest Nebraska Rescue Council newsletter, one can find news and information regarding the Council’s upcoming meetings, what the Council has been up to, and the progress of legislative going-ons in our state. Here’s a snapshot of what appeared in the newest newsletter. Meet the Governor! The Council was recently accepted for inclusion in […]
An Omaha-World-Herald article that appeared online and in print this morning highlighted that “Omaha’s professional firefighters union is helping to gather supplies for an expected springtime boom of kittens at the Nebraska Humane Society.” Every spring, there’s the ubiquitous, biological siren that goes off in cats, and the result is the Nebraska Humane Society and […]
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