Subject: The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

• Dog Day Afternoon. Evening and Morning, Too.

  July 26, 2007

• Some Success On The Pet-Adoption Front

  August 27, 2008

• The 99-Cent Store Of Dogs

  September 3, 2008

• Your Animals Are Probably Bitching About Ike, Too

  September 22, 2008

• Ike's Pit Bulls Live Another Day

  October 6, 2008

• Pit Bull Laundering By The Houston SPCA

  October 6, 2008

• Birds Endagered By Man (And Ike) Going Back To The Wild

  October 20, 2008

• Those "Rescued" Dogs Are Dead, Or Lining Up To Die

  When the feds and local law-enforcement agencies busted a big dog-fighting ring a while back, there was much talk of the more than 100 dogs that had been "rescued." If by "rescued" you meant "Sent to Doggie Death Row," then they were indeed rescued. A commenter to our item on the arrests said the dogs were being euthanised with "no temperament tests, no allowing rescues to assess them, nothing." Is that true, Houston SPCA?

  November 21, 2008

• Fighting Over Dogfighting Dogs Continues

  We wrote Friday about how the Houston SPCA is killing all those dogs who were "rescued" when a major dogfighting ring was broken up recently.The local SPCA is clear that it does not adopt out pit bulls or fighting dogs because it thinks they are harmful. They made an exception of sorts after Hurricane Ike, when some rescued pit bulls were handed over to a sympathetic organization, but even tehn they were adamant it was not an adoption.In the wake of our item about the "rescued" dogs, pit-bull fa

  November 25, 2008

• Don't Say It....Don't Say It....Damn, I Said It

  You could almost hear the wheels spinning in the mind of the guy substituting for JP Pritchard on KTRH this morning.Authorities had busted a large cockfighting ring, the lede of his item said.Cockfighting ring. Cockfighting ring, you could imagine him practicing. Make sure to say cockfighting ring.And then they tossed to him."Authorities have busted a large cock ring --"Maybe next time, dude.By the way, here's how the Houston SPCA described the scene of the bust:

  December 15, 2008

• Letters

  December 16, 1993

• Press Picks

  August 17, 1995

• Last Chance for Some Hot Dogs, Hep Cats and Veggie Burgers

  Scout's Honor Rescue, the group that took in the pit bulls from the SPCA after Hurricane Ike, is launching a new adoption location in the Heights and wants everyone to come out to see Dexter -- one of the few pits the SPCA has ever allowed to live -- and all the other breeds up for fostering or adoption. The adoption gala will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, February 7 at 1230 Heights Boulevard between 12th and 13th streets. You can get a hot dog or burger, adopt a cat or dog, or just donate

  January 27, 2009

• Press Picks

  May 2, 1996

• Beastly Behavior

  August 22, 1996

• Blood Sport

  November 21, 1996

• Poop Happens

  April 16, 1998

• Letters

  April 30, 1998

• All Good Dogs Go to Heaven

  December 17, 1998

• No-Kill Animal Shelter Speaker Comes To Town Tomorrow

  Photo by Daniel KramerTickets are still available for no-kill animal shelter advocate Nathan Winograd's seminar Saturday. The California-based Winograd will present his "Building a No Kill Community" workshop at the South Texas College of Law, 1303 San Jacinto Street. Tickets are available at www.NoKillHouston.org for $14.99, or $20 at the door. (It runs from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., so make sure to bring some coffee).Winograd, former head of the Tompkins County (New York) SPCA and author of  Rede

  March 27, 2009

• BARC Sucks

  January 29, 2009

• Drug Education

  HISD has the world's busiest sniffer dog

  December 4, 2008

• Ike's Fuzzy Animals

  All kinds of cuties are showing up

  October 16, 2008

• The 99-Cent Dog Store

  It's low-rent, but legal

  September 11, 2008

• Declawed

  Cats & Dogs is all bark and no bite

  July 12, 2001

• Best Pet Store

  Petco

  September 26, 2002

• Mail Call

  Lights Out

  September 13, 2007

• Lost Dog

  He can survive a fire and a hurricane, but not the Houston SPCA

  May 18, 2006

• Care and Feeding

  Whole Foods wants lobsters to live large before dying

  December 1, 2005

• Katrina & The Waves

  Houston gets hit with its own hurricane surge

  September 8, 2005

• Letters

  February 17, 2005

• The Fido Solution

  The ultimate answer to too many strays, cash-strapped budgets, animal shelter abuses and starving people

  February 3, 2005

• A Dog's Life

  Is Mr. K's the best we can do? Would you wish it on your best friend?

  April 8, 2004

• Best Pet Store

  Houston SPCA

  September 25, 2003

• (East) Indian Summer

  A local community celebrates its heritage

  August 14, 2003

• Caribbean Vacation

  Storyteller Edwin Negrón tells stories from other lands

  July 24, 2003

• Letters

  July 24, 2003

• Kitty Litter

  Toyya Braskey lives with 100 cats. They are her life. Now the city says they have to go.

  July 3, 2003

• Best Dog Trainer

  Patricia E. Mercer

  September 26, 2002

• Cinema Dog Daze

  Films fuel the fads for special pets -- then comes the fallout

  August 15, 2002

• A New Leash on Life

  Stray Houston mutts make it big in Marin, thanks to Allison and the HSPCA

  July 5, 2001

• Spare a Dime, Dah-ling?

  Fashion shows in area clubs go philanthropic

  September 14, 2000

• Going to the Dogs

  Advocates are working to unleash a plan for a public park where pooches can play

  June 22, 2000

• Stand Up and Holler

  A Huntsville execution draws a strange crowd

  February 3, 2000

• Pet Net

  Max's uncertain plan: Matching you with that cute mutt in Maine

  October 14, 1999

• The SPCA: Kinky Friedman

  Web exclusive!

  May 7, 2009

• UH Gets the Brush-Off from Nike

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  April 30, 2009

• A Guilty Plea And 15 Months For That Big Dogfighting Bust

  Photo by Paul KnightThe announcement of the big bust.That much-ballyhooed dogfight bust last year has yielded some jail time: A 35-year-old Houston man has pled guilty and will receive a 15-month state-jail sentence for both causing and attending a dogfight, the DAs office has announced."Belinda Smith, an Assistant District Attorney in the Animal Cruelty Section, said evidence showed the fight involving Bates' dog went on for more than an hour and caused injuries to both dogs in that fight," the

  June 10, 2009

• Hotel ZaZa Unleashed Poolside Pet Soiree

  June 18, 2009

• Newest Family-Violence Stats Are As Grim As Ever For The Houston Area

  ​The numbers are out on family violence in Texas and they aren't good.According to the Texas Council on Family Violence's 2008 report, released today, 136 women were killed in the state by an intimate partner last year. The youngest was 14 (she was killed by her 15-year-old boyfriend) and the oldest was 74 (she was killed by her common-law husband).Harris County led the state in deaths, with 29 women dying at the hands of their husband, boy/girlfriend, or ex. The local number goes up to 35 if

  October 1, 2009