“You Bring Together People Like Me and Furry Friends Like Maggie and We Save...
Sometimes, the best thing to do is to simply get out of the way. An example of that approach… “Dear Mr. White, “In October of 2014, I wrote to you to tell you about our wonderful four legged friend...
View ArticleMeet Charlie, the Narcoleptic Dog
The Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA is an open door shelter, which means we accept every animal brought to us from this community regardless of age, health, behavior, even species. We get animals...
View ArticleAnimals the Size of the Nail on Your Pinky Finger Which Require Feeding Every...
A few readers contacted me after my last post to question my comment, noting that Peninsula Humane Society accepts all animals including native wildlife: “we have several baby hummingbirds brought down...
View ArticleSunshine the Cat Lights Up a Life
Once again, a letter best presented without further comment… “Dear PHS President Ken White, “I just read about your January 2003 promises to not put to sleep physically healthy, behaviorally sound dogs...
View ArticleHouse Finch Hope & Love Spring Eternal
I’ve written before of the birds in my suburban yard. We’ve spotted dozens of species on our postage stamp size property, from diminutive Anna’s Hummingbird to the impressive Cooper’s Hawk who lands...
View ArticleThe Gorilla, the Boy, and the Question: Why Do We Need Zoos?
The killing of the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has received the attention one could only expect. I don’t care to join in the bashing and blaming, but I do think this is the right time to ask a far...
View ArticleHard To Adopt Dogs Find Homes
An open admissions shelter, the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA accepts all animals from our community. That means many wonderful, healthy, friendly and frankly adorable dogs, cats and other...
View ArticleScreech Owls in the Yard
Like most of us who work at the thousands of local humane organizations around the nation, I often take my work home with me. Unlike most professionals however, when humane workers take our work home...
View ArticleMore Screeching
Several weeks back I wrote about the three baby Screech Owls my wife and I raised and released in our yard, “overflow” from the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA’s Wildlife Rehab Program (it is...
View ArticleIf Bugs Can’t Do It, Birds Won’t Do It
What’s happened to all the songbirds? As a generalist surrounded by subject matter experts, I recently went to one of my science guys to pose that question I’m hearing with increasing frequency from...
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