Lisa Bloch

2 weeks ago | beverlyhillscourier.com | Lisa Bloch

A wakened by the slam of his parents’ car door, he rubs his weary 5-year-old eyes in the shadow-filled backseat as his mother, behind the wheel, restarts the motor. The year is 1966. Through the car’s back window, young Byron Allen focuses on his uniformed father, silhouetted in the dark by the pathway lights, falling in step with his union comrades. It’s 11:45 p.m., moments before the night shift begins at the behemoth structure ahead, the Ford Motor Co. factory in Detroit, Michigan.

3 weeks ago | marinij.com | Lisa Bloch

The other evening, I was hanging out with a friend at her place and noticed that her normally super active dog, Louie, seemed unlike himself. My friend explained that poor Louie had just come back from the vet after having a foxtail removed from his ear. It had embedded so deeply that it was close to rupturing his eardrum. They needed to sedate him to remove it, and he was still feeling the effects of the sedation. And my friend was still feeling the effects of the $400 vet bill.

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Lisa Bloch

It seems like every time I open my Nextdoor app, I see posts from people who’ve lost their pets and are worried sick. I’ve been there myself, so I know how it feels. Cats go missing more than dogs and, sadly, have much lower rates of being reunited with their pet parents. When Tori Herzog’s newly adopted cat, Camus, got out of her house in Mill Valley, she was distraught but immediately sprang into action. “He’s just the sweetest cat I ever met, and we did everything we could think of.

1 month ago | marinij.com | Lisa Bloch

It seems like every time I open my Nextdoor app, I see posts from people who’ve lost their pets and are worried sick. I’ve been there myself, so I know how it feels. Cats go missing more than dogs and, sadly, have much lower rates of being reunited with their pet parents. When Tori Herzog’s newly adopted cat, Camus, got out of her house in Mill Valley, she was distraught but immediately sprang into action. “He’s just the sweetest cat I ever met, and we did everything we could think of.

1 month ago | marinij.com | Lisa Bloch

Recently, staff and volunteers from Marin Humane proudly represented our county at the state Capitol for Animal Advocacy Day. This annual event brings animal advocates from across the state to Sacramento for a day of meetings with legislators to advocate for a variety of important issues affecting pets, people and wildlife in the Golden State.