Pet Pointers

While Charleston City Council has refused to allow an electric carriage entrepreneur to roll out his idea in the Holy City, officials in one Florida Town welcomed e-carriage technology with open arms.

“Our City Council was thrilled to approve the Ordinance allowing the Olde Mount Dora Carriage Company to operate electric carriages in Historic Mount Dora,” says Mount Dora mayor, Crissy Stile. “Our city thrives on welcoming new business, and we never hesitated to welcome [co-owners] Brian and Brittany, making Mount Dora the first US City to allow electric carriage tours.”

Kyle Kelly has hit road block after road block in Charleston with his e-carriage. As reported in Carolina Tails, Kelly says the e-carriage is not only a green alternative to horse carriage tours, it’s also more humane. It’s not clear why Charleston City Council won’t allow the option for the millions of tourists visiting Charleston each year.

The ink was flowing at the Yokai Tattoo Club Marathon event for Charleston Animal Society on February 25th. Supporters of Charleston Animal Society looking for animal-related tattoos lined up for hours knowing that Yokai Tattoo Club was donating 100% of the proceeds to the Society’s lifesaving mission. Before it ended at 1 am, owner Glenn Collins and his team had tattooed 61 people. “We were really excited to be a positive part of the community,“ said Collins. “We wanted to give back to animals that don’t have a choice in the things that happen to them.” The event raised $7,700 for the shelter, and a similar event eight years earlier raised $5,000. If you’re looking for new ink, please consider Yokai Tattoo Club and Broken Lantern Tattoo, both owned by the Collins family.

The Humane Society of Marlboro (HSMC) has been named the 2022 Organization of the Year by No Kill South Carolina 2024SM (NKSC), an initiative of Charleston Animal Society.

“The Humane Society of Marlboro County has been right there at the forefront,” said NKSC Chief Project Officer Abigail Appleton, PMP, CAWA. “

HSMC was one of the first shelters to join NKSC. The goal of the initiative is to make South Carolina a No Kill state by 2024. HSMC was selected because the shelter has exemplified the ideals of the No Kill South Carolina initiative by implementing new programs and services to serve their community, providing assistance to help other shelters across the state, and always jumping in to help out other organizations when they see a need.

In Marlboro County, the live release rate remains at 99% because of their successful transport program and rescue partners.

Shelter Director Stephanie Jones told the Herald Advocate, “We are just really lucky to have our staff and the volunteers in the community support us. Everybody here is for the animals. We just keep trying to push forward.” The photo above shows everyone involved with the Marlboro shelter.