Heights Pets

University Heights joined with Richmond Heights and the City of South Euclid to form a collaborative. The cities now share an animal warden. Finding homes for homeless animals has been the work of the South Euclid Humane Society for some time. It was founded in 2002 by Sunny Simon, the newly elected County Council District 11 representative.

The society does not have its own shelter and relies on foster homes to  take in and care for stray animals until forever homes can be found. Volunteers face an overwhelming increase in the number of stray animals desperate for assistance.

Cleveland Heights' Petland store may have closed, but Truman (foreground), the mixed-breed adoption dog who lived there through 2006, is healthy and happy. "All our friends see him and say 'Hey, that's Truman from the pet store,'" says Adam Rosenbaum, 12, whose family took him in. He's lost about 15 pounds  and now answers to Hoover. Still gentle, sweet and stubborn, Hoover gets along well with Humphrey (background), who was adopted by the family 10 years ago.

The little shi-tzu was only supposed to stay with Cindy Jahn for a weekend. But that was two years ago. Now "Missy" is very much a part of Jahn's life.

[Many of you have read the online discussion about raising chickens in Cleveland Heights at the Heights Observatory forum. Here's resident Ralph Solonitz' contribution to the discussion. Editor.]

Chicken in or chicken out?

Cluck cluck, bark bark,or meow meow?