Irma Turtle led a very different life 22 years ago. She lived on Manhattan’s East Side and spent her days dressed in power suits marketing the products of Fortune 500 companies.

Whenever I get lonely, all I have to do is mention Isabel Acosta in a column.

"STOP!" the sign in the Arizona Humane Society’s lobby stated. "The pets you are turning in might be put to death because we are out of space."

Bitsy is rehabing from knee surgery, B.B. is no longer behind bars and Flint is off the streets.

For kids who love animals and parents who don’t want their own home to turn into a shelter, local animal rescues have summer camps that could be the answer.

For kids who love animals and parents who don’t want their own home to turn into a shelter, local animal rescues have summer camps that could be the answer.

A young puppy thrown from a vehicle in the south East Valley recently will likely be going to a new home Wednesday.

The cat crisis at the Arizona Humane Society is continuing as the shelter is seeing little reprieve in the number of cats and kittens being dropped off. According to a news release, felines currently outnumber dogs and puppies entering the shelter by 2 to 1.

Be Kind to Animals Week is May 6 to 12, and it’s the perfect time to encourage the children in your life to treat all beings with compassion. Teaching kids to have empathy for animals not only helps prevent cruelty, it also helps kids grow into responsible, caring citizens.

In an effort to make more room in shelters that are full to capacity, the Arizona Humane Society will be adopting out cats 10 months and older for $5 from today until Sunday. The adoption fee includes spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, a collar complete with i.d. tag, a carrier, one follow-up veterinary exam and a purring, loving companion.

In an effort to make more room in shelters that are full to capacity, the Arizona Humane Society will be adopting out cats 10 months and older for $5 from today until Sunday. The adoption fee includes spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, a collar complete with i.d. tag, a carrier, one follow-up veterinary exam and a purring, loving companion.

The Arizona Humane Society will host its 10th annual pet telethon from noon to 6:30 p.m. Saturday on KNXV-TV (Channel 15). The society wants to raise more than $500,000 to care for the 50,000 unwanted, sick, injured, lost and abused animals it will take in and care for this year alone.

The Arizona Humane Society’s annual Howl-i-Day Pet Food and Supply Drive runs from today through Dec. 31.

Spring and summer is the high season for people turning in unwanted animals, either from litters or due to families moving and going on vacation. Between May and July the Arizona Humane Society took in nearly 6,000 cats and kittens.

This is my first letter to any newspaper forum. I am just very upset with the Queen Creek City Council denying a permit to Reservation Rewards Animal Rescue. Don’t they realize that the Queen Creek/San Tan Valley area is a dumping ground for dogs and cats?

As the holidays approach, humans aren’t the only ones who could use some charity.

Our View: One sign of a bureaucracy out of control is when a rule is applied in a way that defeats the entire purpose for the rule to exist in the first place.

Valley religious groups, for a second year, will team with the national Islamic Relief Foundation on Sept. 7 for a Day of Dignity to help an estimated 2,000 homeless people in the Valley. The Cultural Cup Food Bank in Phoenix, a nonprofit group specializing in providing food boxes for those with dietary restrictions, is sponsoring the event 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Watkins Overflow Shelter, 1120 W. Watkins St., Phoenix.

PHOENIX - Living just eight miles north of downtown in an established neighborhood, Ron Deplazes was a little surprised the first time he saw a coyote running down the street.

When George Luna and his Gilbert family invited John Wagner to live in their grandmother’s home for just $25 a month, they had all the best intentions.

When George Luna and his Gilbert family invited John Wagner to live in their grandmother’s home for just $25 a month, they had all the best intentions.

Magic is a spunky black kitten who looks like he’s wearing a tuxedo. He’s playful and curious and loves to purr. Yet the 10-week-old kitten has been sitting at the Arizona Humane Society Campus for Compassion for weeks while he waits for a home.

Little hands packed shoeboxes full of shampoo, conditioner, soap and other toiletries Friday night at Ray of Light Christian Preschool in Chandler.

The first Thomas J. Pappas school was started in 1990 with the best of intentions — to provide children of homeless and severely poor families with a stable learning environment that also addresses challenges in their lives that most of us will never truly understand.