Ardmore plans vigil for homeless pets
The Ardmore Animal Care Animal Shelter is hosting a candlelight vigil for homeless animals Aug. 16, which is International Homeless Animal Day.
About 28,000 unwanted and homeless animals were accepted at the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter during the last fiscal year. More than 7,000 were adopted. But about 19,000 were euthanized.
For folk who can’t make it down to Ardmore next Saturday, honor International Homeless Animal Day in your own way. (You could even adopt Megan Lynn, shown here, from the Ardmore shelter.)
I plan to honor the holiday by petting the four-legged members of my family, both of whom were rescued from homelessness by the kindness of strangers.
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Get off the bus, albino ferret
Apparently, ferrets aren’t allowed on buses in Canada.
A Canadian woman who suffers from agoraphobia, anxiety and panic attacks always takes one of her pet ferrets everywhere. Gyno, a 3-year-old albino, gives her a sense of calmness and security. She applied for – and recieved – a bus pass to take a ferret on the bus with her as a service animal. For some reason, the pass was revoked in April. Nobody’s told her why. So now she can’t use public transportation at all because of her mental conditions.
Well thank goodness the bus officials put that chaos to a stop!
Not really. That’s silly. I’m surprised people still have trouble using service animals in the modern world. Service animals are allowed on buses in the Oklahoma City area, a Metro Transit employee told me Thursday morning.
Have you or anyone you know ever had trouble taking a service animal somewhere in public? Maybe this is a story worth looking into.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
