November 11 - 17, 2010 GELDING SADDLE HORSE, born and raised on our farm, he is black with 4 white stockings and white blaze down face, prettiest horse around, he is gentle, loves people and attention, loads, been trimmed by our ferrier, no bad habits, he is just a great horse, first $750 gets him, or will consider trade for a 4 wheeler of equal value..call 334419-3423 or 205-351-1950 205-351-1950 PITBULL PUPPIES ready 1st week of December call for more info 205-210-5841 205-210-5841 MARS AQUARIUM setup. Like the ones at Wal-Mart.$900. 2059382474 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPY 6 month old german shepherd puppy female. Akc registered. Asking $250. 205344-3955 I HAVE WAY TO MANY DOGS: 2-8 wk old male puppies, 3/4 dachshund 1/4 fiest. 1 full blooded male dachshund 3 1/2 yrs old,1 male 3/4 dachshund 1/4 fiest -2 yrs old, 2 females 3/4 dachshund 1/4 fiest both are 2 yrs old. All are free to good home. Just need to down size call 205-3999447 anytime between the hrs of 8:00 am & 8:00 pm SPECIAL NEEDS CAT, mentally challenged, needs good home, inside only, female, fixed, white with tiger stripes. Very nice, gets along fine with kids and other cats. Needs special care. 205-310-6520 BILLY COOK SHOW SADDLE, 15.5 inches seat, $350, nice cond. Also, youth roping saddle, $200 205-454-4042 MINIATURE PAINT STUD, black and white, miniature paint mare, black and white, $300. Reg TN walking gelding, rides good, 14 years old, $600. Reg Qtr horse mare, 6 years old, $300. 7 month palomino stud colt. $200. New Abeta light weight saddle, 14-15-17 inch seat, $250 each 205-542-3803 FREE KITTENS TO GOOD HOME I have three FREE kittens to a GOOD home! I have to males one is black/white/grey and one black. I also have one black female. The kittens are 11 weeks old and they are outside kittens. They would be great for a farm or large yards. Get one in time for the holidays. I can email pictures if needed. 205-570-1196 FREE TO GOOD HOME! 3-1/2 YEAR OLD WHITE MALE LAB. LAB HAS BEEN FIXED. 4-1/2 YEAR OLD FEMALE SHELTIE. BOTH DOGS ARE NOT CURRENT ON SHOTS. LEAVE MESSAGE IF NO ANSWER. 205-596-3906 100 GALLON AQUARIUM 100 Gallon aquarium with stand. Also, includes a few accessories $300/obo. 205-8268768 FREE TO GOOD HOME, 2 male kittens, one about 8 weeks old, one about 4 months old. 8 week old is gray, 4 month old is male tabby. Also have white with black spots female, 8 months old. Free to great home only. Also have 2 older cats. 205-792-2256 MARS AQUARIUM, $900, like the ones at WalMart, dismantled, fair cond. 205-938-2474 6 MONTH OLD PYTHON, male, $100, with aquarium, stand and everything included 205-994-9176 PIT BULL PUPPIES, 2 months old, 3 males, $100 obo. 334-216-3286 FREE TO GOOD HOME! 3-1/2 YEAR OLD WHITE MALE LAB. LAB HAS BEEN FIXED. 4-1/2 YEAR OLD SABLE AND WHITE SHELTIE. BOTH DOGS HAVE NOT HAD SHOTS IN A COUPLE YEARS. LOCATED IN MILLPORT (LAMAR COUNTY). LEAVE MSG IF NO ANSWER IF INTERESTED. 205-596-3906 FREE TO GOOD HOME! 3-1/2 YEAR OLD WHITE MALE LAB. LAB HAS BEEN FIXED. 4-1/2 YEAR OLD SABLE AND WHITE FEMALE SHELTIE. BOTH DOGS ARE NOT CURRENT ON SHOTS. LEAVE MSG IF NO ANSWER IF INTERESTED. LOCATED IN MILLPORT (LAMAR COUNTY) 205-596-3906 6 FREE PUPPIES, 6 girls, mother is pit, don’t know what father is. 205-399-4296 ANTIQUE CANARY CAGE with stand black. $40. Please call 205 562-9556. Thanks 10 YEAR OLD RACKING GELDING, bay with blaze, 14.3 to 15 HH, broke with good gait. would like to trade for good QH in 15-17 year old range or sell for $350 obo 334-5494399 LARGE WOOD RABBIT CAGE, $100 205-765-2663 FULL BLOODED PIT BULLS $75 EACH. WHITE ONES, BRINDLE ONE, RED ONE WITH MARKINGS. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL PUPS AND SWEET! THEY WILL BE 6 WEEKS OLD NOV 12TH. I DO NOT WANT THESE DOGS WONDERING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR ON A CHAIN!!!! SO ONLY SERIOUS DOG LOVERS CALL ME!! 205-454-7448 GREAT PAIR OF TN WALKING GELDINGS, make great Christmas gift, $1500 brings them home. 205-333-6422
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PET WORLD by Steve Dale I’m no fiscal guru. As my wife will attest, I can barely balance our checkbook, let alone forecast economics. Yet, I know the U.S. economy is in dire straits. I know times are desperate because you’ve told me. And our furry friends are beginning to pay a price. As one listener of my Chicago-based WGN Radio show explained on the air, “We really love our dog, but we also live with my mother-in-law. We can’t throw Grandma out on the street. And our two children still desire things. Something has to give.” Sure, enough, the family companion, Chester - through no fault of his own - was dropped at a local animal shelter the next day. This listener, who called himself Vince, wasn’t an anomaly. I began writing my national pet column in the mid ‘90s, so I can’t comment on how the economic downturn in the late ‘80s impacted pets. Interestingly, after 9/11, as our economy whimpered, pets had lots to bark about. Adoptions and spending actually increased. Heading into 2008, as an economic category, pets pulled ahead of jewelry and hardware to the tune of $41 million, according to Bob Vetere, president of the American Pet Product Manufacturer’s Association. As for pet adoption numbers, lots of factors, such as Iams’ effective Home 4 the Holidays campaign, as well as a mounting pro-adoption culture, helped boost adoptions after 9/11. But something else was been going on, too. I could play armchair psychologist and add that perhaps, feeling threatened and a little afraid, we needed the companionship and dependability of pets after 9/11. When the unpredictable lurked around the corner, we sought trustworthiness, which only our pets could give us. But that was then. Today, around America, some shelters are seeing a distinct decline in adoptions. Worse, once loved pets are being given up because “we can’t afford the animal.” In too many instances, either out of embarrassment to surrender at a potentially judgmental shelter, or maybe because pets are now the last thing on their minds - some families are opening the door and letting their animals fend for themselves. After foreclosures, some animals are literally left behind. A listener phoned in just this past Sunday, asking what to do about his failing 20-year-old cat who had begun to have accidents and bump into objects in the home. It turned out that for whatever reason, the caller was about to lose his apartment and might be homeless. His only thought was to find temporary homes for his remaining cats. His voice cracking, he said, “This cat (the 20-year old) helped me to get to sobriety.” When I asked how a cat could do that, he paused and answered, “Love, true unconditional love. And lots of purring. Now, I feel I can’t afford to do right by this cat.” Some people being hit the hardest are those who arguably need a pet the most. Nancy E., in Charlotte, NC, wrote to say that she was 86 and had outlived most of her family. Even her only daughter had died. She said that in the past few years, due to medical expenses, she had gone through more money than she ever dreamed she’d spend. While she was in the hospital, a neighbor cared for Spike, her little terrier mix. Now, quickly running out of money, Nancy has no choice but to live under Medicaid in a nursing home. The only facility that will accept her, however, won’t accept her best friend. “I’m pleased my loving neighbor will care for Spike. He loves their family,” she commented. “I know the end is coming for me but this is no way to have it happen. I’ve lost my dignity, and most of all, I’ve lost my best friend. I’ve done nothing to deserve this.” Spike has done nothing wrong, either, nor have other pets being given up. (Write to Steve at Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY. 14207. Send e-mail to PETWORLD(at)AOL.com. Include your name, city and state.)
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FREE PUPPY, to good home, great with kids, male beagle mix. 205-333-6422 FREE TO GOOD HOME! 3-1/2 YEAR OLD WHITE MALE LAB. LAB HAS BEEN FIXED. 4-1/2 YEAR OLD SABLE AND WHITE FEMALE SHELTIE. LOCATED IN LAMAR COUNTY(MILLPORT). LEAVE MSG IF NO ANSWER. 205-596-3906 2 3YR.OLD 1/2 CHINESE CRESTED 1/2 BOSTON TERRIER ONE FEMALE ONE MALE.WENT THROUGH DIVORCE AND I’M NOT ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL MY BABIES. VERY SWEET AND ENERGETIC.WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THEM TOGETHER.FREE TO A GOOD HOME.IT KILLS ME TO PART WITH THEM.I LOVE THEM SO. 205- 705-7018 A BEAUTIFUL LOVING RED NOSE PITBULL she is extremly sweet puppy and is good with other animals we dont have alot of time to sped with her im asking 100 she a very good dog 2055340074 I HAVE A FREE DACHSHUND PUPPY to gave away and also 2 adult dachshunds that are one years old they are all full blooded put no pappers free to go homes call 205-2706891 ask for tersa oswalt
STILL TRYING TO FIND A HOME for a chocolate bulldog. He was left tied to our vets office, and his last adopter backed out. Super people friendly, must be only dog in home. He is neutered but doesnt realize it with other dogs around. Approx 4-5 yrs old with a facial malformation resulting in the cutest overbite ever. Must have a fenced yard & home visit to adopt! Interested in this silly boy? Call 205-2390404 2 Y/O MALE WEIMARANER- FREE to good home. Needs a loving forever home. AKC papers, not neutered, a truly handsome male. Call 770 851-3927 to set up a time to meet him! FREE TO GOOD HOME, puppies, Lab and Springer mix, 5 weeks old, ready to go, playful, eating puppy chow, 1 boy, 2 girls. 205-333-8011 RAT-TTERRIER PUPPIES FOR SALE, one tricolored female,a brown & white male and a tricolored male will be very small when grown born sept. 19 and have first shots, are dewormed, and tails docked they all must go $75 dollars apiece call for more info 205-477-8309