Tag: Veterinary, Animals, Pets and Zoos

DENVER, Colo. /eNewsChannels/ -- In response to a recent national news story, Best Friends Care LLC is gifting two PetPeek™ units to Riverside County Animal Services for their diligence in freeing Rebel, a German Shepherd puppy, who got his head stuck while trying to look out of a hole in a wall in Desert Hot Springs, CA. Rebel was helped to wiggle out of his predicament by Riverside Animal Services Officer James Huffman.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. /eNewsChannels/ -- The Turtle Survival Alliance announced that fifty Yellow-Headed Temple Turtles have arrived in Florida to begin a new life after being rescued from an illegal wildlife shipment in Hong Kong. Had the turtles been successfully smuggled into China, they would have been killed to satisfy the large demand for turtle meat and turtle parts used in Chinese medicine.