14 September 2012 Last updated at 15:12 ET Roger Skinner said the tax rebate would help pay for a new factory A Suffolk dog food company could receive a £9m tax rebate after unnecessarily paying VAT for 29 years. Skinner’s, in Stradbroke, said it paid the tax between 1980 and 2009 on food which should [...]

News 12 at 6 o’clock / Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 To visit the PetSmart Charities website, click here. AUGUSTA, Ga. — PetSmart Charities donated nearly $100,000 worth of supplies to help the homeless pets, and a lot of those dollars came from pet lovers like you. If you’ve been to PetSmart, you’ve probably been asked [...]

Aerial view of Hill’s Pet Nutrition Center, Topeka, KS After breakfast the next morning, we boarded a bus for the trip tothe Pet Nutrition Center. We arrived at a large commercial complex, which reminded me more of a college campus. We were ushered downstairs to the conference room a.k.a. Tornado Shelter. It was good to [...]

This was such a fun contest to run. We here at Pacifica Patch loved seeing all the adorable dogs in the photos our readers uploaded, and it was fun keeping up with everyone’s votes in the comments section. We’re so glad so many votes came in, because if it had been up to us to [...]

Two animals are now in the hands of authorities after officer’s report their owners abused and neglected them.  

PORTLAND, Ore — Oregon’s pet food bank, The Pongo Fund, is in the running for some serious cash. “We are in line to get anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 dollars,” said Larry Chusid, founder and executive director of The Pongo Fund. Pongo is one of the 2500 charities in Chase’s Community Giving contest, and right [...]

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Waterloo Alley Cat ProjectResidents of North Collinwood have embraced the trap-neuter-return program run by volunteers with the Waterloo Alley Cat Project. CLEVELAND, Ohio — Feral cat caregivers in Northeast Ohio need some help from landowners who have barns or sturdy sheds. Shelter is needed for vaccinated and neutered cats that can’t be returned to their [...]