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Write a Post, Help a Dog

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I’m excited to share the Pedigree Write a Post, Help a Dog campaign! TONS of food to help feed shelter dogs. And you can help simply by writing a blog post before June 30, 2012 (midnight EST). To help, simply write a blog post about Pedigree’s commitment to adoption and finding shelter dogs loving homes.

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Shearwaters from Shore

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When I was a new birder, I adopted Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay as a “patch.”. The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. Patch birding is rewarding because the birds become familiar, as do the changes across the seasons. There is satisfaction in the everyday.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

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Rock & Rawhide , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to increase adoptions for dogs and cats in shelters by providing toys and other items that serve as a form of distraction therapy, reducing the stress and noise levels. Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up!

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Shine a Light on a Shelter

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Purina ONE® beyOnd® brand dog and cat food and GOOD have teamed up to host the Shine a Light on a Shelter challenge and award a $10,000 grant to an animal shelter doing great work. Starting on June 28, 2012, anyone can nominate at purina.maker.good.is. Nominations are accepted now through July 30, 2012. 6, 2012 through Aug.

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It’s a Dog’s Life Journal Giveaway

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Did you just adopt a dog? The It’s a Dog’s Life Journal: A Journal of Our First Year Together by Knock Knock is an adorable way to record all those firsts together. It is hard bound, with a place to put your dog’s photo in the front. Just leave us a comment on this post before midnight on May 16th, 2012.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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The domestic dog was once and still often is Canis familiaris as opposed to the wolf, Canis lupus , but the former which is really a subspecies of the latter is now Canis lupus familiaris. Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. 78(1):61–78. Thornton, E.,

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Awkward Fostering

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It turns out that people are not the only ones, who can adopt children – animals are good at this as well. Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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