Animal Shelter Full to Bursting - Whiteville, NC

Columbus County Animal Control (CCAC) is full to bursting and staff is asking citizens for assistance with chip-ins (contributions), foster parenting, and sponsorships or donations.

"This is going to be a bad week if we don't go the extra mile for these animals," said Pennash Resq Page, administrator for the agency's Facebook page, "To members of Pulling from CCAC, Whiteville, NC."

To view the urgent album of adoptable dogs and cats, see http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3006&id=100001628311522.

The address is 288 Legion Drive and phone number is 910-641-3945.

In unrelated pet news, an abused dog with acid burns needs help with vetting and is in desperate need of donations in Arizona.

If you can donate any amount of money, call Bethany Animal Hospital at 602-242-1657 between the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Source: Springer Paw Ranch).

In other pet news, animal shelters must keep a stray dog for at least four weekdays, not three, before putting it to death, a state appeals court in San Francisco has ruled, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle (http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-30/bay-area/20827194_1_stray-dog-animal-shelters-appeals-court).

"The ruling by the First District Court of Appeals was the first to interpret a 1998 California law that increased the holding periods for public and private shelters," states Bob Egeiko, Chronicle Staff Writer. "Contra Costa County Animal Services, which keeps its two shelters open Tuesday through Saturday, counts Saturday as a business day in deciding how long it has to hold a stray dog for possible retrieval by its owner or adoption by someone else."

According to the article, the ruling means Contra Costa and all other counties and cities with the same policy must keep strays for at least four weekdays, not counting the day the dog was impounded.

"Overturning a judge's ruling in the county's favor, the appeals court said the state law did not define business days but was clearly intended to increase holding periods from the pre-1998 law, which required a 72-hour hold," writes Egeiko.

Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Pug Rescue is in dire need of donations to help canines like Linnette who, with her three puppies, were covered in ticks and malnourished when rescued. The mother is suffering hair loss also.

To donate, look up http://www.dfwpugs.com/Donate__How_to_Help_.html.

Lulu, one of the agency's rescued pugs, age two, also has a critical need and funds are still needed for her two surgeries.

To give toward her care, click on the same link as Linnette's above.