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Faye Carey Faye Carey is a 16 year old girl that has managed to re-home more than 60 dogs. News Hub says that ¨She wants to have a career in animal control.¨ ¨She has made a Facebook page called Animal Re-Home Waikato.¨ Says News Hub. Her Facebook page has nearly 300 likes and a loyal following of new parents. (Of animals). News Hub also said that ¨With Faye being there, when an animal comes into the shelter or animal control, the animal goes right into a new loving home. ¨
Kitten Lady-Hannah Shaw Hannah Shaw is an animal protection professional. She fosters kittens till they are adoptable. (8 weeks). Her website, Kitten Lady says that she works with animal shelters all around the country. The shelters by her call her and she comes to pick the kittens up. She has no charge for them. That doesn't mean she gets them for FREE, because she's not buying them for herself to keep. She also provides educational and instructional videos on her website. She has pictures of the kittens she fosters too. Her Youtube channel Kitten Lady, has her rescue videos, and more instructional videos. She said that she normally does bottle baby orphan kittens. These kittens are as big as her hand. They´re really small!
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Bianca is a teen activist that went to *YEA camp* and got inspired to help animals. ¨Right after YEA camp she started a school club called Hearts For Animals.¨ The article Activist Profile-Bianca V states. They also said that her group is involved with the local animal shelter. Bianca says ¨I really think that we´re making an impact in our community!¨ This is the list of accomplishments her group had in one year. And it shows that she IS making a big impact in her
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Wendy Hurrell was born as Wendy Louise Hurrell on 24 May 1982 in Norfolk, England. Although she was born in Norfolk, she grew up in Filby, near Great Yarmouth. She is of Norwegian ethnicity and she has an English nationality. She rose to fame as an English television presenter who is currently working for BBC London as its weather presenter.
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
The actress who burst into our screen through drama Heartbeat and is consistently serving the industry with phenomenal talent is Clare Calbraith. She is an English actress whose recent roles in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey, Home Fires, and drama The Shadow Line raised her fan base.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Ideally, pet supply would be equal to the demand for wanted pets. There may never be enough caring homes for all the pets as is evident by the fact that only about 25 percent of the pets in shelters are ever adopted. F...
Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran was born on May 11, 1906 in Defuniak Springs, Florida. Before she became a pilot she started her own hairdressing business and it wasn’t until she met Floyd Odlum, who suggested she learned to fly to gain an advantage in the beauty industry, that she considered becoming a pilot. Over the next four years Jacqueline learned how to fly a plane and earned her pilots licence. In 1939, when Adolf Hitler and Nazis marched across Europe, Jacqueline Cochran believed America would become involved in the war and she felt that women could play a major role in the war effort. With this in mind, Jacqueline proposed a women’s flying division but Army Air Force General Henry Arnold rejected her idea. Jacqueline then began to participate
Annie Roberts, 32 years old, and Joseph Roberts, 28 years old, have been married for five years now. Their wedding day was magical, and they both envisioned a prosperous life together. During their five years of marriage, Annie gave birth to a two year old, AJ, and a four year old, Faith. However, for the past year, Annie and Joseph have been constantly arguing and very distant. Annie took it upon herself to hire a private investigator to look into her husband’s actions. What the private investigator discovered would change Annie’s life forever. Her husband has been living a double life for the past year with a new family and separate bank account. Annie was livid, and destruction was the only thing on her mind. She had also discovered that
Julia Braden 04/24/1963 – 11/6/2017 Ypsilanti Mi, a Massage Therapist in Ann Arbor, MI, died November 6th, 2017. She was born the eldest of 2 siblings in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies on April 24th 1963. Julia was certified a Massage Therapist In June 1994, and went to school in Florida for certification. She was attending Eastern Michigan University for a degree in Recreational Therapy and expected to graduate in 2019. She was married from 1988 to 2007 to Jon Braden and had no children. Growing up, she travelled with her father, and lived in England, Malaysia, Thailand, Denmark, and Africa. She also travelled to other countries with her father on vacations. She went to boarding school when she was 8 years old. She finished her high
Grace Murray Hopper was born on December 9th,1906 in New York, city. Her parents were Walter Murray, and Mary Van Horne. She was the oldest of her 3 siblings, she had a sister named Mary Murray Westcote , and a brother named Dr. Rodger Franklin Murray, 2. She also at a young age devolved a love for math from her mother. She dismantled 7 alarm clocks before her mother ever knew she had 7 alarm clocks she had taken apart. Also when she was younger she attended private schools in New York.
Nyjah Huston is the middle child of five kids in a family of seven. “He was the youngest skateboarder to compete in the X games at age 11 and got his first sponsor at age 7! He won the overall champ title of SLS (street league skateboarding) in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2017. He is now the most highest paid skateboarder in the world and has over 4 million followers on his social media”(http://nyjah.com/#about-nyjah) . But most people don't know his background and how hard his childhood was. With an abusive father and divorced parents, his struggles were a lot for young Nyjah.
Throughout my nearly four years of volunteering with Suncoast Animal League, I have felt a wide range of experiences and emotions towards the non-profit. My first day was absolutely terrifying. I arrived at the shelter with the idea that it was the typical shelter shown on television, a considerable sized building with huge kennels and white walls. Instead, before me stood a house, about the size of my own, with a few cars parked outside. Upon entering it became even more apparent that the building was once inhabited by a typical family; the kitchen was off to the side and both the medical room and back quarantine rooms felt like modified bedrooms. Nevertheless, the workers were friendly and I began my training.
Finally there is Faye Carey. She discovered pet abandonment and built up her passion to stand up for it. She volunteers at her local pet shelter that receives 20 pets a week . She now helps rehome dogs from there. She discovered a Facebook page that advertises pets and re-homes them. She has now re-homed about 60 dogs from the shelter. Even though she has to juggle all of the stuff she said, “ It is rewarding as well, so that makes it worthwhile.” She now has discovered Trade Me.com and advertizes pets on that website as well. Faye Carey is not the only one
It is a sad truth that many animals in the United States are without homes. In fact, four million cats and dogs are put down in animal shelters annually (“Pet Overpopulation”). However, there is one organization trying to change this statistic. The Progressive Animal Welfare Society is focused on giving animals a home, as well as educating the public about animal care.