Mary Haight has been involved in animal welfare for over 15 years, working with horses dogs and cats, and serves as VP on the board of a no-kill organization, Lake Shore Animal Shelter, in Chicago, and as a member of the board, Chicago Animal Shelter Alliance.
Besides writing Dancing Dog Blog, she also founded Animal Cafe, a podcast interview site where experts in dog training, pet health, pet travel, and animal welfare work bring fascinating and fun topics to listeners. There is also a monthly pet products show with Mary and Carol Bryant of FIDO Friendly Magazine to entertain, engage, and help you spend quality time with your dogs with quality toys, games and products. Mary also writes for BTC4Animals, an award winning site that showcases good causes where readers are never asked to spend a dime, just a little time helping organizations get their message out.
email her at: dancingdogblog@yahoo.com
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Blogging is fun and also requires work. I like promoting others in this field, pointing out people who’ve got something to say, have some passion, and an interesting writing style. It’s not always the way out there. That’s the hard part–getting our blogs seen among the tens of thousands available. That said, I found a directory for women bloggers that helps, Blogsbywomen and of course Blog Catalog. A newer and growing site where pet bloggers can connect is Petsblogs.com.
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Guest Bloggers
Craig Daniels lives in New Hampshire where he divides his time between search engine optimization and writing flash fiction. Craig has been an animal person all his life, leading with his first love, cats.
Craig maintains the Dancing Dog Blog.
So, what is your position on these things? Is the HSUS a bunch of monsters? Why shouldn’t people who own dogs simply as pets spay or neuter them. Why not just let the animals run loose and breed? Get a grip. Look outside your yuppie window and see the world.
If you read the link to original reports in this blog, you will find that I am all for spay/neuter, and have been since my teens. I’ve been on the board of one of the first no-kill shelters in the nation for over 10 years as I believe I’ve mentioned in text as well as in the About area.
Rather than pursue your comment that leaps to dogs and cats running loose and breeding all over the place, I would ask you to take more than a few seconds when forming an opinion. That’s my rationale for reporting the news. Not to give you too much, but hopefully enough, of what I think so you know my perspective, but more importantly to relate the available information and facts so you can see what’s out there, read the positions, and make up your mind without knee-jerk reactions or emotional snap judgments.
I think I was abundantly transparent regarding my opinion on Mandatory Spay Neuter, which I am against given the fact that after having cost cities btw $8-18 Million it has failed in its purpose in cities across the US and caused major increases, not any decrease, in kill rates, is unenforceable, has lowered compliance in licensing requirements, created health hazards like rabies, doesn’t reduce bite stats, and the list goes on. If packs of wild dogs were roaming the streets and wrecking havoc with local populations, I guess I’d have to revisit my position.
Groups like the ASPCA and HSUS do a lot of good work. That is not the case in this area of concern given the facts, and people should be made aware of that.
Mary and Craig, the posts are great, Congrats, you guys run a great pet blog! I couldn’t find any email address to contact either of you personally though. Not sure if there’s a reason for this, but if there’s an addr you would like to share, let me know at jorgeg at mit.edu.
Thansk
Mary
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