A shortage in donations has left the SPCA Suncoast scrabbling to find funds to keep the lights on. Betty Moore, treasurer for the board of director's says they have taken out a sizable loan to help them through their fiscal year, which ends Feb. 28 but donations are still needed. A series of fundraisers are currently underway to save the shelter. ...more

September 22, 2007

The 44-year-old Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals chapter here has been facing something akin to a midlife crisis. ...more

September 15, 2007

The City Council has received a proposal from the local unit of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on how to reduce the city's stray pet population. For the moment, council is only agreeing to discuss the proposal from the SPCA of the Suncoast, which has a price tag in the neighborhood of $16,000 a year. ...more

September 13, 2007

Tuesday night New Port Richey City Council listened to a proposal from the local unit of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on how to reduce the city's stray pet population. ...more

September 8, 2007

City council members say they are willing to at least discuss an animal welfare group's proposal on reducing the stray pet population. ...more

September 8, 2007

LARGO - Five severely malnourished mustangs, including one so weak it was not expected to survive, have shown a marked improvement since being seized from a boarding facility last month as part of an animal mistreatment case. ...more

September 7, 2007