Monday, June 16, 2008

Ruby & Bob Barker Celebrate her First Anniversary at PAWS

On May 15, 2008, Ruby celebrated the first anniversary of her transition to PAWS from the LA Zoo. Ruby's staunch benefactor, the wonderful Bob Barker, visited PAWS and brought Ruby a cake to commemorate the festivities.

See video of Bob Barker's visit, as well as Ruby's overall transition, in the most recent PAWScast video update.

And this just in: the Animal Planet series "My New Wild Life," featuring PAWS, has been slated to air daily starting June 30 at 3pm! Check the Animal Planet website for details!



2 comments:

  1. Happy Anniversary Ruby!
    You are fortunate in having such great friends as Bob, Pat, Ed and the great staff at PAWS.
    I'm so glad that little Lulu has her own special friend.

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  2. I just went up to the Elephant Grape Stomp on October 17th and it was so fun. I'm so glad that Pat Derby and Ed Stewart and Bob Barker are there for the elephants, the tigers and the bears. Thank God for Paws because I don't know where they would go. Let's make parents aware to not take their kids to the circus so they will end up having fun and being at peace at PAWS.
    Cindy
    www.freetheelephants.com

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Pat Derby’s advocacy for animals developed more than 35 years ago when she began working with captive wildlife in movies and television commercials. While working on television series such as Gunsmoke, Lassie, Daktari, and Flipper, she witnessed the neglect and abuse prevalent in animal training. Determined to initiate better standards of care and handling for performing animals, Pat chronicled her adventures in a Book-of-the-Month Club autobiography, The Lady and Her Tiger. The first exposé of the treatment of performing animals, The Lady and Her Tiger won an American Library Association Award in 1976. Since 1984, The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) has been at the forefront of efforts to rescue and provide appropriate, humane sanctuary for animals who have been the victims of the exotic and performing animal trades. PAWS investigates reports of abused performing and exotic animals, documents cruelty and assists in investigations and prosecutions by regulatory agencies to alleviate the suffering of captive wildlife.