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On Discounts on Adoptions

Animal Person

Here's a Gray Matter for you (or maybe not): A humane society near me is doing a cat- and dog-adoption promotion this month. You can adopt a dog for $75 rather than $100, and if you adopt a cat for $50 you can get a second one for half the price. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Farm Sanctuary needs help.

4 The Love Of Animals

Farm Sanctuary recently came to the aid of six male Holstein calves, several just days old, who had been abandoned without food or water and left for dead. With much love and care these calves are now thriving, however, they are in desperate need of potential adopters for these sweet boys. Farm Sanctuary needs help.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

Critter News

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. They say cats and dogs at the lab get excellent veterinary care and survivors are placed into a volunteer-run adoption program. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.

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Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People

4 The Love Of Animals

While there are no exact numbers on how many animals are coming in from foreclosed homes (since many people don’t give an accurate reason), shelters have noted a dramatic increase in the number of homeless pets they take in, either from owners dropping them off, or from pets that are simply abandoned outdoors or in empty houses.

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Finally. Jasmine the Greyhound

Animal Person

It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for Animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need. But Jasmine had other ideas.

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Race for the Rescues

4 The Love Of Animals

5K Run/Walk, Kid’s Fun Run and Adoption Celebration. Each year these groups combined, rescue and find homes for over 2,000 abandoned Southland dogs and cats, animals that most likely would otherwise have lost their lives. Tags: events. 4th ANNUAL “RACE FOR THE RESCUES” FUNDRASIER. Co-Hosted by Jane Lynch andCarrie Ann Inaba.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Tags: spay and neuter quantico military feral cats. Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. Whiskers" or "Frisky?"