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Bright spots - and grim ones, a PAWS report card
Into a kennel . . . goes the stray black Lab, to wait for adoption or to be reclaimed by its owner. PAWS keeps every animal for adoption or reclamation for at least seven days - longer, if possible. Animals picked up in cruelty investigations get…
Newsmen find dog pound here in good condition
Putting stray pup . . . into a cage is Poundmaster George Synacek. Newsmen found the building had been scrubbed and disinfected when they made an unannounced inspection. --Nonpareil Photo.
Couple must get state permit, bite was just part of getting 'bear' facts
Accepting a friendly nibble . . . is Humane Officer Jerry Archibald from one of two black bears on a farm near Crescent. The officer and several county and state officials checked the condition of the bears Thursday afternoon. --Nonpareil Photo,
Animal rescue league starts $25,000 drive for equipment
A friendly sniff . . . is given Mayor Dorothy Strohbehn, by "Angus," a bull mastiff owned by Mrs. Doris McIntyre. Stephen Nelson, president of the Pottawattamie County Animal Rescue League, looks on. --Nonpareil Photo.
Animals find friends
Animals such as this dog, found injured on a Council Bluffs street, have many friends in the staff at the Pottawattamie Animal Welfare Shelter (PAWS) 2821 South 15th Street. Humane Officer Dennis Tellander leads the dog from his PAWS van to needed…
PAWS gets hand and a kick, too
Presenting new gloves . . . to Pottawattamie Animal Welfare Society Director Nancy Burton and Fritz Flammang, president of the PAWS board of directors, is Virgil Eades, general manager of Great Plains Beef Co. The gloves made of steel mesh, will…
2,686 in a year unwanted 'pets' put to death
More and more . . . unwanted animals - dogs, cats, birds --are facing destruction in Council Bluffs as owners either "dump" them of fall to claim them at the Animal Shelter. Animals are killed by injection or by being put into an airless chamber.…
Kindness, rope used to rescue dog from ravine
Friends for life . . . after a two-hour rescue ordeal are Mike Koger, Pottawattamie Animal Welfare Society and Boscoe, a stray Doberman pinscher. Koger and Council Bluffs firefighters had to rescue Boscoe Wednesday night after he jumped over a…
Bright spots - and grim ones, a PAWS report card.
Into a kennel . . . goes the stray black lab, to wait for adoption or to be reclaimed by its owner. PAWS keeps every animal for adoption or reclamation for at least seven days -- longer, if possible. Animals picked up in cruelty investigations get…