Charleston Animal Society is teaming up with researchers at MUSC to help smokers kick the habit! This alliance for “Project Quit” may seem surprising, but when you consider that pets are suffering from second-hand smoke and other nicotine dangers, the teamwork is the perfect combination. “So many people are surprised […]
Monthly Archives: April 2018
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By Helen Ravenel Hammond Photos: John Martin and Joanna Ferrell Who can forget the story of Gumby the escape artist? He’s the white hound who refused to be adopted and kept jumping adopters’ fences to return to Charleston Animal Society (Carolina Tails, Winter 2016). When this hound mix came in […]
By Kathleen Millat Johnson Photos by Marie Rodriguez Dogs and cats have been known to live twenty years or more, but turtles are a different story. Nancy Baker of West Ashley and her Eastern Box turtle, Mert, have been together for 59 years! Aware that these turtles may live […]
By Dan Krosse Anyone who’s seen photos of heartworms knows how disgusting they are. Long, spaghetti strings of evil that wind themselves into your dog or cat’s heart and then inflame the lungs – leading to a slow, painful death. “Every dog and cat in South Carolina needs to […]
By Ellie Whitcomb Payne Charleston Animal Society and other Lowcountry shelters see a surge in hound dogs brought in as strays each winter and spring. Picked up in rural areas, some with hunting-style dog collars, many others without, these animals fit the profile of “deer dogs” and the shelter is […]
You can no longer keep a pet cheetah in South Carolina. As of January 1, South Carolina lawmakers passed a law aimed at stopping people from owning exotic pets. The Palmetto state was one of only five states in the country that had no restrictions on people keeping dangerous wild […]