Results tagged “houstonhumanesociety”

Friday
• 8 p.m. — KUHF Silent Film Concert Series: Girl Shy. Two Star Symphony performs along with this silent film about a shy, bumbling bachelor who falls in love with an already-engaged girl. At Discovery Green, FREE!

Beginning tomorrow, the ladies of the Houston Roller Derby will be busy, busy!!! Now, to keep the action moving, these ladies practice quite often (we think it's like three or four times per week, we are not certain - don't quote us on that!), but, they are gearing up to give Houston some love! Beginning tomorrow at 8:30 in the a.m. the ladies will be accepting donations/non-perishables at the Kroger at Buffalo Speedway and Westpark...

Houstonist likes pets and pet charities (animals in general - really. Well, iffy on the reptiles - that's just us). We advocate promoting pet adoption, spaying/neutering or just hooking up a homeless pet with a meal, worthy causes, all. To that end, we are bringing to your attention a wine and warm fuzzy event benefiting animals. Houston PetSet, along with the Houston Humane Society, is hosting a wine tasting at The Tasting Room Midtown...

Tom DeLay said today he will withdraw from the congressional race to allow Republicans to run a write-in candidate in November Federal officials are looking into the bus fire that claimed the lives of 23 nursing home residents during last year's Rita evacuation determine whether buses are safe for people with special needs Four penguins and a load of exotic fish died today when the truck carrying them to Moody Gardens overturned on an East...

A cat named Molly from the Houston Humane Society began competing yesterday in what is either a genius or awful move in reality programming. Meow Mix cat food sent Molly, as well as 9 other cats, to New York to live together in a house where they'll be voted off by viewers watching a webcast.

Perhaps Houstonist was naive in thinking animal shelters were safe places, or maybe (more likely) we'd just never thought about it, but in either case we almost cried in our Cap'n Crunch this morning when we read about the euthanasia rate in Houston's major shelters. A city task force has been looking at the number of animals who are killed rather than being put up for adoption: More than 80,000 animals that entered the area's...