Pets in Need of Homes: Madaline and Polly

These pets are housed at the Center for Animal Health and Welfare in Williams Township. For information about how to adopt them, call 610-252-7722.

Help these pets find homes: MADALINE Madaline had a home but her owner was moving and she could not go. She is very friendly does not appreciate the company of other dogs or cats. A senior labrador mix, Madaline knows how to "sit" and would appreciate a home instead of a cage. POLLY Polly is a cute girl looking for a forever home. Polly is spayed, litter-trained, up to date on shots, microchipped and ready to go! She came to us as a stray and is eager for a family again. She likes other cats.

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Get Your Pet Vaccinated Saturday at Community Center

Center for Animal Health and Welfare offers $15 rabies shots for dogs and cats.

The Center for Animal Health and Welfare is offerin a low-cost vaccine clinic for dogs and cats Saturday at the Easton Area Community Center. Pet owners can get rabies, distemper and bordatella shots for their animals for $15 a shot, as well as FIV/FELV and heartworm/lyme disease tests and the lyme vacine for $25 per shot. The center will also provide microchipping for $25, and nail-clipping ($10 for dogs, $5 for cats). The clinic runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center, which is at 901 Washington Street. Be sure to have your dogs leashed and cats in carriers, and be prepared to pay with cash or a check.  

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Blind Dachshund Needs a Home

A visually impaired dachshund named Thurston needs a good home.

The Center for Animal Health and Welfare in Easton is hoping to find a good home for a special needs dog. Thurston is a 7-year-old long-haired dachshund but he has limited or no vision. He is friendly and loves to be out and about, accordng to the Center's Facebook page. He came to the center as a stray and is eagerly waiting for a new home. Call 610-252-7722 for more information.

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Pets in Need of Homes: Johnny and Sugar Baby

These pets are housed at the Center for Animal Health and Welfare in Williams Township. For information about how to adopt them, call 610-252-7722.

Editor's Note: This pet profile has been provided by the Center for Animal Health and Welfare, 1165 Island Park Road, Easton, PA 18042. Visit the center's website or call (610) 252-7722 for more information about adopting a shelter pet. JOHNNY Johnny is a gorgeous cat that came to the Center as a stray. He weighs 11 pounds, is social with people and other cats, and is in need of a forever home. He is up to date on shots, neutered, microchipped, litter-trained and ready to go! SUGAR BABY Sugar Baby was found running around the McDonald's parking lot on 25th Street near Easton. She is very sweet and petite. She had several mammary tumors but is all fixed up now. She enjoys playing with many of the other dogs in her play group. She knows "sit…

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Pets in Need of Homes: Kellnerin and Bumper

Kellnerin and Bumper are housed at the Center for Animal Health and Welfare in Williams Township. For information about how to adopt them, call (610) 252-7722.

Editor's Note: This pet profile has been provided by the Center for Animal Health and Welfare, 1165 Island Park Road, Easton, PA 18042. Visit the center's website or call (610) 252-7722 for more information about adopting a shelter pet. KELLNERIN Kellnerin was found wandering by shelter staff. She is friendly and loves to play. She is up to date on shots, spayed and ready to go. She is ready for a new loving home. BUMPER Bumper is a cute and social young gal who gets along with other cats. She is ready for a new home.

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From the Editor's Desk

Dying Dog: 'Neglect to a Whole New Level'

The Center for Animal Health and Welfare wants to know who left an emaciated dog to die outside an Easton area pet store.

About four times a month, someone will abandon their animals at the Center For Animal Health and Welfare in Williams Township. It might be a box of kittens, or a dog tied to their porch. But they all tend to be younger animals, said Ian Shulman, a trainer at the center. "They're typically not dogs that people have had their whole lives," he said. But that description fits Bracha—the dying, abandoned dog that wound up at the shelter earlier this week. Shulman has seen mistreated dogs before, but "nothing of this magnitude," he said Friday at the shelter. "This was neglect to a whole new level," Shulman said. Last Sunday, workers at the PetCo at the 25th Street shopping center in Easton found Bracha in a box outside the store, and contacted …

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Dog Left to Die Outside Pet Shop

Center For Animal Health and Welfare says Bracha was the victim of months of neglect.

Chinese Cresteds are fancy dogs. If you see one in a movie or on TV, it's usually there to signify that a character is mega-rich. But there's nothing fancy about what happened to Bracha, who was found Sunday morning in a box, malnourished and dying, in front a pet store in a strip mall outside of Easton. Actually, we may never know the dog's real name. "Bracha"—Hebrew for "blessing"—is just the name the Center For Animal Health and Welfare gave him during his short stay with one of the shelter's volunteers. The dog was discovered in a box outside the Petco on Route 248. By 7 p.m. Sunday night, Bracha had died at the home of the volunteer who was fostering him, according to the Examiner. The Examiner story notes Bracha was underweight (just…

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Unsolved Killing, Stray Cats Lead Local News

Other big stories include the intermodal unit, and Cheeburger coming to the Pomeroy.

On March 5, 2011, George Humbert, Jr. was found dead in his apartment on S. Sixth Street in Easton. His death—still unsolved—was ruled a homicide, although authorities have never said how Humbert, 54, was killed. Two years later, the case is being investigated both by Easton police and a Northampton County grand jury, District Attorney John Morganelli said Tuesday. The Center for Animal Health and Welfare has begun an Easton-wide trap-neuter-return program. The center has gotten a $97,000 grant from PetSmart which requires them to spay and neuter 1,400 cats in the next two years. So far, the center has one board member doing the job and needs help. So the center is looking for people around Easton to set humane traps to catch stray cats …

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Pit Bulls Get a Bad Rap, Owners Say

Local shelter says dogs are victims of overbreeding, abandonment.

Last week, we reported on a drug raid in the West Ward in which a dealer allegedly kept heroin under the bed where his 2-year-old son was sleeping. Readers were disturbed by that detail, but also by another one: The story noted the presence of a pit bull in the apartment at the time of the raid. Fans of the breed say it's another example of pit bulls getting a bad rap. "Had the dog been a Labrador retriever or a dachshund or any other breed, would the breed have been mentioned?" wrote reader Dave Rex. "On behalf of all the gentle and loving bully breeds in the West Ward: we resent the implication of guilt by association." One of those pit bulls is Ace, adopted last year by West Ward resident Patti Berger. Berger already owned another dog—a…

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