By JESSICA DAMIANO A neighbor texted me this week asking for advice about controlling carpenter bees. She was hoping for an exterminator recommendation, but I…
Posts published in “Pets and Animals”
Municipal budgets are being voted on this time of year, and once again officials are faced with rising costs of animal control contracts. The Animal…
One of the biggest fundraisers to benefit animals sheltered by Humane Pennsylvania returns this weekend with a punk rock twist. The 2024 Art for Arf’s…
Two Kutztown friends hosted a charity lemonade stand to raise money for the Animal Rescue League of Berks County. Ajax David, 11, and his friend…
Berks County readers have met the challenge to help one lucky shelter pet find a forever home simply by reading books. For the second year…
By JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Less than three years ago, Mary Ann and David Giordano were taking turns lying on the…
The Animal Rescue League of Berks County is hitting the road with a mobile pet adoption unit and clinic that will provide vaccines and microchips…
Finding two dead birds in her yard by her feeders this winter seemed too strange to Karen Myers. The Shillington resident didn’t find any signs…
The board of directors of the Animal Rescue League of Berks County announced Tuesday that Ashley Mikulsky has been named chief executive officer of the…
The Reading Fightin Phils have announced there will be five Bark in the Park nights at FirstEnergy Stadium in 2024. The games, all Sundays at…
Berks County birding enthusiasts were successful in finding 249 species of birds in the county in 2023. This is three short of the 20-year average…
The Animal Rescue League of Berks County has extended a Code Blue it issued Friday through 11 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21. Accu-Weather is forecasting…
The Animal Rescue League of Berks County, Cumru Township, is participating in Bissell Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters — Holiday Hope adoption event Dec. 1…
Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This is from 2020. Q: Kip, my retriever mix,…
Humane Pennsylvania is celebrating National Adopt A Senior Pet Month by offering all cat and dogs older than 10 to be adopted without an adoption…
Humane Pennsylvania is holding a two-day No Pet Hungry: Million Meal Challenge food donation drive Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, in the parking…