I'm on a FB list and this was posted. Please be on the look out ( Read more... )

My best friend, who lives in Mt. Oliver with her partner and two cats and who is pregnant, is stuck there right now with no buses running and no power, which means no heat. Do any of you know anything about warming stations, especially ones that will allow animals? Or where I can check for them to see what the status of their getting power back is ( Read more... )

Today at about 5:45 I called the police and asked them to send Animal Control over to my place, because a squirrel had gotten in and I was having trouble encouraging the poor little destructive thing to leave. About 20 minutes later I called again and spoke to a lovely dispatcher and asked her to cancel the call, because I'd managed to get the ( Read more... )

Since questions about free or affordable health care pop up often, I figured this was worth posting:

( Free Health Clinic To Open Downtown )

Pittsburgh is lucky to have a veterinary specialists practice, as well as a veterinary emergency clinic such as we do. For the benefit of my other friends in the area with pets, here's the info for the specialists as well as the emergency clinic. They see all types of animals, large and small (including rodents, birds, etc ( Read more... )

Here I will write down what happened this afternoon exactly as I recall it for use in further letters of complaint to various city offices.

Somewhere around 1:30 PM, my 5 year old son and myself were at the Quarry Park playground in the southside of Pittsburgh. My friend frozensun was also there with her new baby. She had just arrived and we were ( Read more... )