DOGS' DAY AT RESCUE SHELTER; PET ORPHANS MARKS ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY.Byline: Deborah Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer Pet Orphans animal shelter "Dog Pound" redirects here. For the rap group, see Tha Dogg Pound. An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. celebrated its 25th anniversary Sunday with dog relay races and appearances by celebrity pups. The festival marked the 2-1/2 decades since Pet Orphans became the first no-kill shelter No-kill Shelters are a type of animal shelter which do not kill the animals they house. The most widely accepted definition of a no-kill shelter is a place where all adoptable and treatable animals are saved. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. in 1973, said board member Arlene Ober. Its mission, she said, is to provide a safe place ``where dogs and cats can find the right home without a time limit hanging over their heads.'' Maui, the pet dog on the television series ``Mad About You,'' showed up to greet admirers, along with Jill, one of a team of five ginger-and-black brussels griffons Brussels griffon, breed of sturdy toy dog developed in Belgium in the 18th and 19th cent. It stands about 8 in. (20.3 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 6 to 12 lb (2.7–5.5 kg). There are two varieties, the wirehaired and the smooth. who played the dog Verdell in the Oscar-winning film ``As Good as It Gets.'' And teams of dogs raced over hurdles to retrieve a tennis ball in a game of ``flyball'' sponsored by the group Rocket Paws. As the dogs yipped frenetically in anticipation of the game, the first round began. Two lightning fast border collies and an equally talented mutt flew down the course, easily outdistancing their competing team. But when the final dog, an exuberant puppy named Annie, took her turn, she ignored the hurdles and instead trotted on the heals of the opposing team's last dog. Since its formation in 1973, the shelter has adopted out about 20,000 dogs and cats, Ober said. At any given time it can accommodate 60 to 65 dogs and 80 to 100 cats, she said. The nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. runs its $300,000-a-year operation on donations and grants. Cats reside in group chambers where they can become reaccustomed to other cats and people after experiences of abandonment or abuse. ``We try to work with the shy ones, because a lot of them have had pretty traumatic lives,'' said volunteer Megann Mulroy. Dogs live two to a kennel, but are treated regularly to romps in the garden or stints in one of two ``real life'' rooms furnished with couches and televisions. Pet Orphans volunteers scour scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. county animal shelters for adoptable animals and rescue them to avoid the county's mandatory euthanasia euthanasia (y  'thənā`zhə), either painlessly putting to death or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma. . They seek dogs and cats that would make friendly companions, and have no requirements for age or breed, Ober said. ``We don't put any age discrimination here,'' Ober said. ``We take old dogs, young dogs, small dogs, tall dogs.'' |
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