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0 Pets These pets are waiting for their forever home in South Side area shelters. Pet News , Patch Staff Posted Reply Want to add a furry friend to your family and do something good for the world at the same time? Adopt a dog, cat or other animal from a local shelter! Many animal shelters in and around South Side are still working to find forever homes for dozens of cats, dogs and other adorable critters coming through. Millions of pets and other companion animals are given to animal rescue organizations each year nationwide, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Of those, approximately 3.3 million are dogs and 3.2 million are cats. Shelters often look after other animals in search of a permanent home as well, including pigs, birds and even horses. However, only around half of all shelter animals are adopted each year, ASPCA data shows. This means millions of animals — some right … [Read more...] about Adopt From South Side Area Shelters: See New Local Dogs, Cats

0 Pets Looking to adopt a furry friend? Check out this week's list of pets waiting at shelters in and around Forest Park. Pet News , Patch Staff Posted Reply Do you want to add a furry friend to your family? Look no further than these Forest Park animal shelters for a pet available for adoption. Animal shelters have dogs, cats and other animals ready and waiting for someone to take them home. About 6.5 million companion animals are given to animal pounds each year nationwide, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. However, only around half of all shelter pets are adopted each year, according to ASPCA data. For those looking to adopt, a great place to start your search for a lovable new family member is at Animal Care League, where Linda the rabbit is waiting patiently, or another local animal pound. If you aren't sure if you have time to take care of a pet year round, many shelters also … [Read more...] about See The Latest Adoptable Pets In The Forest Park Area

Houston has bigger trees, and older ones. But for charisma, nothing beats the Cemetery Oak. It is, of course, a live oak — Houston's favorite tree — and it is, of course, a whole lotta live oak. Sixty-four feet tall; trunk wide as a Volkswagen . Like all old live oaks allowed to grow as they will, its twisty, fern-covered branches stretch farther outward than upward. The lower ones do their darnedest to brush the ground. That ground, notably, is Glenwood Cemetery, a marble-angels-and-Spanish-moss piece of the Old South, a stray piece of New Orleans hidden just off Washington Avenue, about a mile from downtown. It's a place designed for the living to mingle with the dead; a garden punctuated with gravestones. And nowhere do you feel that life-and-death connection more strongly than at the back of the cemetery, in the Forest Mound section, where among graves dating to the 1910s, the Cemetery Oak continues to thrive — a live oak that's very much alive, there among the dead. A … [Read more...] about The mystery of the Cemetery Oak